This is in A minor. You can also use the same chord pattern with a capo in the 5th
fret for the original D minor key.
Am G C G Am
How can I repay you brother mine?
Am G C Em
How can I expect you to forgive?
Am G C G Am
Clinging to the past I shed our blood
G Am
And shattered your chance to live.
Am G C G Am
Though I knew the laws I payed no heed.
Am G C Em
How can I return your wasted breath?
Am G C G Am
What I did not know has cost you dear;
G Am
For there is no cure for death.
Em D Em D
Beautiful Mother, soft and sweet,
Em D C Bm
Once you were gone we were not complete.
Em D Em D
Back through the years we reached for you;
Em Bm Em
Alas, twas not meant to be.
Am G Em
And how can I make ammends
Am G Em
For all that I took from you?
G C G Am
I led you with hopeless dreams.
G C G Am
My brother, I was a fool.
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Am G C G A
Don't cry for the past now brother mine.
Am G C Em
Neither you nor I are free from blame.
Am G C G Am
Nothing can erase the things we did;
G Am
For the path we took was the same.
Am G C G Am
How can I expect to call you wrong?
Am G C Em
How can I blame you for what I've done?
Am G C G Am
We were both fools and our desires;
G Am
As we flew too close to the sun.
Em D Em D
Beautiful Mother, soft and sweet,
Em D C Bm
Once you were gone we were not complete.
Em D Em D
Back through the years we reached for you;
Em Bm Em
Alas, twas not meant to be.
Am G Em
My dreams have made me blind and mute.
Am G Em
I long to return to that time.
G C G Am
I followed without a word.
G C G Am
My brother, the fault is mine.
Am G Em
So where do we go from here?
Am G Em
And how to forget and forgive?
G C G Am
What's gone is forever lost.
G C G Am
Now all we can do is live.
