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Grateful Dead - Brother Esau Lyrics

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  • My brother Esau killed the hunter, back in 1969,
  • Before the killing was done his inheritance was mine.
  • When at first my brother walked away,
  • Before a weary band,
  • Esau gave his sleeplessness for a piece of moral land.
  • Our father favored Esau, he was eager to obey,
  • All the wild commandments, the old man shot his way.
  • But all this ended when, my brother failed at war,
  • He staggered home and found me in the door.
  • Esau he's on rollerskates today,
  • And he make a statement to someone in L.A.
  • Sometimes at night I dream, he's still that hairy man,
  • Shadow boxing the apocalypse, wandering the land.
  • Esau holds the blessing, brother Esau holds the curse,
  • I was thinking that the blame was mine,
  • But suspected something worse.
  • The more my brother looks like me, the more I understand,
  • The silent war it bloodied both our hands.
  • None of us can win.
  • Outside that dream, still that hairy man.
  • Well sometimes at night I think I understand.
  • Shadowboxing the apocalypse, wandering the land

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