Key: E
Introduction: E E E E
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The house was like a tomb
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I was hiding in my room
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As my brother made his way on down the hall
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I didn't want to say goodbye
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And I was trying to deny there was a war
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And that he got the call
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I watched him from my window
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Walking down the drive
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Then I ran down the stairway
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Throught the front door and I cried
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You come back you hear?
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And I let him see my tears
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I said, "I'll give you my rookie of DiMaggio
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I'll do anything you want
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Clean your room, or wash your car
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I'll do anything so long as you don't go"
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But he said, "This is what brothers are for"
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Well I have my heroes
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But the one I love the most
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Taught me how to hunt and swing a bat
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And I wrote him every night
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I said, I miss our pillow fights
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But lately I just wonder where you're at
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Sometimes freedom makes it hard to live
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When it takes things from you that you don't want to give
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I said, "You come back you hear?
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I miss you being near
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To laugh and fish down in the maple grove
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I'll do anything you want
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There must be someone I can call
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And just maybe they would let you come back home"
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But he wrote, this is what brothers are for.
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I may never have to face the anger of those guns
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Or lie cold and wounded in my blood
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Or know the sacrifice and what it must have cost
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For him to love me that much
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Well, it had been two years
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And I held back my tears
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When I saw him in that wheel chair on the shore
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And as I ran and held him tight
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That's when he looked me in the eye
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And said, "I'm sorry that you have to push me home"
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And I said, "Hey, this is what brothers are for"
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