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. 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.
