Patchwork Walls

from Patchwork Walls by Brother Keep

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This smile - it’s just a mockery
A false impression of a moment in time
It’s one you had immortalized
While we stood like soldiers in a line
My blood is thinner than water
And yours is thick like mud
Well I may be blinded by the bursting lights
But it’s not too hard to see that…
My blood is thinner than water
And yours is thick like mud

We built a home of patchwork walls
And we should have seen it coming
That the rest would try to tear our home to shreds

I made a name for myself
Dug it out of the ground where you left it
It was dirty and worthless

Well, someone carved out my name
Dug it into the bark of a tree
Inscribed with the name of a family

My blood is thinner than water and yours is thick like mud

So I found a place for myself
Not defined by a leaf on a limb
Or a distant connection

Little brother – all we have is our father and mother and a handful of others
So why would we describe the ones we love by their blood?
Little brother – all we have is our father and mother and a handful of others
So why would we describe the ones we love by their last names?
Little brother – all we have is our father and mother and a handful of others
So why would we describe the ones we love by their family tree?
Little brother – all we have is our father and mother and a handful of others
So why would we describe the ones we love by their family?

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from Patchwork Walls, released December 23, 2011

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Brother Keep Buffalo, New York

Nick Sessanna
Jake Sessanna
Nathan McDorman
Adam Cwynar
Mike "Fiki" Rakiecki

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