Dm G Dm
How can I repay you brother mine?
Dm G C F A7
How can I expect you to forgive?
Dm G Dm
Clinging to the past I shed our blood,
D C Dm
and shattered your chance to live.
Dm G Dm
Though I knew the laws I paid no heed.
Dm G C F A7
How can I return your wasted breath?
Dm G Dm
What I did not know has cost you dear,
D C Dm
For there is no cure for death.
(chorus)
F G F G
Beautiful mother, soft and sweet
F G Bb C
Once you were gone we were not complete.
F G F G
Back through the years we reached for you.
F G Am
Alas, twas not ment to be.
Bb C F
And how can I make amends,
Bb C F
for all that I took from you?
G Am Bb
I lead you with hopeless dreams.
G Am Dm
My brother I was a fool.
Dm G Dm
Don't cry for the past now brother mine,
Dm G C F A7
Neither you nor I are free from blame.
Dm G Dm
Nothing can erase the things we did,
D C Dm
For the path we took was the same.
F G F G
Beautiful mother, soft and sweet
F G Bb C
Once you were gone we were not complete.
F G F G
Back through the years we reached for you.
F G Am
Alas, twas not ment to be.
Bb C F
My dreams made me blind and mute,
Bb C F
I longed to return to that time,
G Am Bb
I followed without a word.
G Am Dm
My brother the fault is mine.
Bb C F
So where do we go from here?
Bb C F
And how to forget and forgive?
G Am Bb
What's gone is forever lost.
G Am Dm
Now all we can do is live.
