By Button Poetry
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Transcript provided by YouTube:
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losing
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[Music]
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my brother is lost i can’t find
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my brother i say it over again
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when i lost my brother a back road
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i knew once and now can’t find
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a specific wave on john’s pond
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the last one we saw there the blue
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lipped sleep
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of overdose he goes from one office to
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the next and no one will return my calls
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one day he was somewhere i know he must
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have been
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the difference in weight between alive
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and dead
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do the old experiment again weigh
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the escaped soul let it have gone
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somewhere
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let it have packed one bag
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is my brother any amount of atoms at all
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fending for themselves if i keep saying
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i have lost my brother is there a
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corollary
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do i make wayfinding a compass
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a geocache a crashed plane on his island
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his black box full of laughter
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every next syllable said by everyone is
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my brother
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silent mouths these are where dead
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brothers live
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i keep a jar of nails like a bouquet of
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denial
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life ends with us finding leaves
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underfoot
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fend for ourselves i’m saying there is
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music
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everywhere there must be a bit of his
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breath left
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put the needle in the track again my
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brother
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somewhere knows the tomb
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you
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