What Happened to My Brother

What happened to my brother
 The life in his eyes?
 Did something shake his brain
 On that long bus ride?
 What happened to my brother?
 Swear he had my mother's face
 What I'd give to find him
 Hold him in a long embrace
 What happened to his body?
 Why's he look so white and empty?
 When he shows up at my door
 Just don't know him
 Used to sit and talk for days
 Now he lays there in a haze
 'Til some tiny little nothin'
 Triggers psychotic eruption
 What happens when he's sleepin'?
 Why's he wake up cryin' and screamin'?
 Walkin' into walls and runnin'
 Like hungry animals are comin'
 To gnaw his bones, lap up his blood
 From a ditch bank in the mud
 Leave his scarecrow in the sticks
 For the black birds
 And the blue jays to pick
 For the nature to encroach
 For the wanderers to approach
 For the snow and autumn leaves
 To be buried underneath
 For the rivers to rise
 Wash him out into the tides
 What happened to my brother?
 He used to have his pick of lovers
 A whole array of pretty ones
 My brother was a silver Sun
 A heavyweight, a head bull
 A frontman and waterfall
 A stoic prince, not the second
 But the first violin
 So for, so for, so forget the viola
 So for, so for, so forget cello
 So for, so for, so forget the violin
 He's up, he's up, he's up in his room
 Gone solo
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 He used to dazzle us
 Leave a trail of magic dust
 At the end of every joke
 We would laugh so hard, we'd choke
 He could turn over a stone
 Find an endless well of poems
 Used to bring the sweetest gifts
 We went to him to be uplifted
 Inspiration, friendship
 We needed love, we needed tips
 Oh, how I miss, how I miss
 My brother, I miss
 You ask me what's he do?
 He swallows reds, he swallows blues
 Stares off in the night sky
 You ask me what's he do?
 So for, so for, so forget the viola
 So for, so for, so forget the cello
 So for, so for, so forget the violin
 He's up, he's up, he's up there
 Layin' low