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  • 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 the land

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