Brother Roads
(hmmmmm) Single bed in a highway room
Watching headlights cut the gloom
Daddy's gone with a silver blade
Learning how a soldier is made (yeah)
Keep your brother safe and hold the line
Growing up on stolen time
In the back of a black sedan
Boy became a working man
Cleaning chrome on a sixty-seven
Looking down the road to heaven
No time for toys,
just a silver gun
Never was a normal son
Keep your brother safe and hold the line
Growing up on stolen time
In the back of a black sedan
Boy became a working man
No white fence, no green-grass yard
Just a road that's long and hard
(carry on, carry on)
Just a boy with a heavy load
On a never-ending road (hmmmmm)