Steven Wilson - Brother 52 lyrics
Doc: "Tattoo Shop" Fish: "Hi Doc" Doc: "Hey Fish, what are you doin'?" Fish: "If you don't mind, we're gonna record this. Is that cool?" Doc: "Oh that's cooler 'n hell. Hell yeah, 52's biggest dream man You know his biggest dream was, me and him go party with you." On the trail of torn-out twisters, two angels on a mission came Dust devils danced before them in the path of the hurricane On the road to Oklahoma, through the flatlands from L.A From the shadows in the valley, from a country where the lizards play While they drove they kept the radio on, why don't you singalong, singalong, singalong (Chorus:) Tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo Brother 52 Tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo Brother 52 I don't think so A man stands behind his shadow, a man stands behind his words These men are together with family to defend their rights in another man's world Most people stood against them, most people disagreed With the need for all those weapons in our safe, secure society Paint the words and the pictures on another man's skin We are lover, warrior, magician kings (Chorus): Doc:"f**in' brilliant, man. OK, here's what happened. 52 barred the door shut from the inside. A gunfight started on the front porch. 52 shot back. You know...they come into his home with it, so he's protecting himself. The guy inside the house blew his brains out. Yeah, they made it look like he k**ed himself. But, no one believes he would, 'cause he's not that kind of man. That's all, I think, he wasn't afraid of d**h. You know, he believed in something to die for, that's what he did." Some say he had it coming, others say he was sole to blame But who says they've got the rights if any at all to blow the brothers away A man got a right to wonder, a man got a right to dream Without looking over his shoulder to choose the manner of the life he leads One man's thoughts on another man's skin We are lover, warrior, magician kings (Chorus): Doc: "What they have done, was they've come in and murdered him, for his bombs and his ammunition. Just like that Waco Texas or any of these other things, over here in the United States. Anybody that's stockpiling firearms and ammunitions is a threat to the government, so the government wages war against us. They tortured him, he went out but I'm sure he stood up like he was supposed to, you know? They smashed all the rings shut on his fingers with a hammer. It was all an orchestrated plan, man. The more.. the closer I was getting to it.. to the truth, the more they got everybody looking at me as being the guy that pulled the trigger. And what they did when they k**ed 52, is they broke the whole family up That's exactly what they wanted to do They wanted to break all of us up."