LEARN LYRICS

You, the brother I never had

Do you know if you'd lived

What we'd have done together

A year after me, you'd have been born

Then we'd never have left each other

Like two friends who look alike

We'd have learned slang by heart

I'd have been your teacher

At my playing-hooky school

Sure someday we'd have fought

If back then we'd known

The same junior year together

But you're not here

Whose fault is it

Not my father's

Not my mother's

You could've sung this

You, the brother I never had

If you knew how much I've drunk

Of my sorrows all alone

If you hadn't stood me up

You would've finished my songs

I'd have taught you to write them

If life had behaved better

It would've split in two

The pairs of gloves, the pairs of slaps

It would've surely shared

The love words and the cobblestones

The girls and the baton blows

But you're not here

Whose fault is it

Not my father's

Not my mother's

You could've sung this

You, the brother I'll never have

I'm less alone for having made you

For a moment, for a girl

I bothered you, you'll forgive me

Here, when everything lets you down

We build ourselves a family