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.