Brother

Diana (to James)
Look in my eyes you can see
The sister you once sang to sleep
But you’d trade my life to believe
In a man and a church, that you’re breaking a curse

Where is the boy that I knew
So brave and so gentle in youth
Now you would kill me for the truth
Isn’t murder a sin in my brother’s religion?

James (to Diana)
How you gonna call me brother
How you gonna share this pain
If you don’t love the things I love
If you don’t love the things I love

James (to Aaron)
How could you come to defend
This wretch who would hurt your own kin
Weak as you always have been
I thought there was line, but you sit there spineless

Aaron: How you gonna call me weak?

James: Crying to yourself
like a Goddamn martyr

Aaron: How you gonna call me spineless
James: Father’d be ashamed he had to two daughters

Diana: Look to the sky and the trees

Aaron: Well father isn’t here to glorify how you’ve pursued us
Are you proud of your betrayal, Judas?

Diana: Beware what brings you to your knees

James: The curse Diana wrought and what it did to our mother

Diana: Daughters of innocent Eve

James: Thank God she’s not here to see this, brother

Diana: We’ll remember the pain, rivers rise in the rain

Aaron (to James)
How you gonna call me brother
How you gonna pass this blame
If you don’t love the things I love
If you don’t love the things I love

How we gonna save each other
How we gonna clear our name
If you don’t love the things I love
If you don’t love the things I love

Aaron (to Diana)
Diana, I’m begging you please
Help your brother to see what you see
I’m drowning in uncertainty
Everything that I trust seems to crumble to dust

Diana (to Aaron)
How’m I gonna call you brother?
How’m I gonna share this pain?
If you don’t love the things I love

Aaron: I dream about it
But you allowed it
My vision’s clouded
There’s one way out and
An edge is a curious thing
It can give, it can cut, it can bleed
If pushed past the brink it can free us
In a storm without cover no sister no brother