Capo on 1st fret to fit with recording.



    D5
The house was like a tomb.
      D5
I was hiding in my room.
      G5                               D5
As my brother made his way on down the hall.
         D5
I didn't want to say goodbye.
            D5                               G5
And I was trying to deny there was a war,
                      D5
And that he got the call.
  B5
I watched him from my window
        G5
Walking down the drive.
       D5
Then I ran down the stairway
              A5
Through the front door and I cried



D5
You come back you hear?
      G5
And I let him see my tears
       D5                              A5
I said I'll give you my rookie of DiMaggio.
        D5
I'll do anything you want,
           G5
Clean your room , or wash your car.
        D5           A5            G5
I'll do anything so long as you don't go.
            D5             A5       D5
But he said, this is what brothers are for.


 
     D5
Well I have my heroes,
        D5
But the one I love the most
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Taught me how to hunt and swing a bat.
      D5
And I wrote him every night,
         D5
I said I miss our pillow fights,
    G5                             D5
But lately I just wonder where you're at.
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Sometimes freedom makes it hard to live.
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When it takes things from you that you don't want to give.



       D5
I said you come back you hear?
  G5
I miss you being near.
D5                                 A5
Laugh and fish down in the maple grove
        D5
I'll do anything you want.
              G5
There must be someone I can call,
         D5                A5            G5
And just maybe they would let you come back home.
             D5             A5       D5
But he wrote, this is what brothers are for.



A5                               G5              D5
I may never have to face the anger of those guns,
A5               G5             D5
Or lie cold and wounded in my blood,
A5                G5             D5
Or know the sacrifice and what it must of cost
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For him to love me that much.



D5
Well, it had been two years,
      D5
And I held back my tears
       G5                                D5
When I saw him in that wheel chair on the shore.
         D5
And as I ran and held him tight,
               D5
That's when he looked me in the eye
             B5             A5           G5
And said I'm sorry that you have to push me home.
                 D5           A5       D5
And I said hey, this is what brothers are for.