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Lyrics for My Brother Esau by Grateful Dead:
| | | Artist: | Grateful Dead |
| | Album: | In the Dark | | Track: | My Brother Esau | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 92 | | | | Lyrics: | My brother Esau killed a hunter
Back in 1969
And before the killing was done,
His
inheritance was mine.
But his birthright was a wand to wave
Before a weary band.
Esau gave me sleeplessness
And a piece of moral land.
My father favored Esau,
Who was eager to obey
All the bloody wild commandments
The Old Man shot his way.
But all this favor ended
When my brother failed at war.
He staggered home
And
found me in the door.
[Chorus:]
Esau skates on mirrors anymore...
He
meets his pale reflection at the door.
Yet sometimes at night I dream
He's still that
hairy man,
Shadowboxing the Apocalypse
And wandering the land.
Shadowboxing the
Apocalypse
And wandering the land.
Esau holds a blessing;
Brother Esau bears
a curse.
I would say that the blame is mine
But I suspect it's something worse.
The
more my brother looks like me,
The less I understand
The silent war that bloodied both
our hands.
Sometimes at night, I think I understand.
It's brother to brother and
it's man to man
And it's face to face and it's hand to hand...
We shadowdance the silent
war within.
The shadowdance, it never ends...
Never ends, never ends.
Shadowboxing
the Apocalypse, yet again...
Yet again.
Shadowboxing the Apocalypse,
And wandering
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