brother, where are you?

a small boy walked down a city street

and hope was in his eyes

as he searched the faces of the people he'd meet

or one he could recognize

brother

where are you?

they told me that you came this way

brother

where are you?

they said you came this way

brother

where are you?

brother

where are you?

the eyes of the people who passed him by

were cold and hard as stone

the small boy whimpered and began to cry

because he was all alone

brother

where are you?

they told me that you came this way

brother

where are you?

they said you came this way

where are you?

brother

where are you?

don't you know i need you now

i'm calling out from the top

of a ten foot pile of knots

they call us cool

if you smile or not

and if you dial the cops

i'm gonna try to shot

see it's a violence plot

tell the judge

'i give a f what kind of file i got'

i'm trying to calculate my damages

from a lifetime of manmade savages

bad food canisters

fast food managers

and school principals

who really prison wooden chips

dough to the mo'

flush my load in the commo'

but it never was

never is

you believe in lined lie images

of front line scrimmages

support the crime bills of the president

now it's a sacrileges

attack the kids

and get the older generation

just to back the pigs

so when i whisper as i leave the line of where i was

brother

can you join the brawl?

where are you?

now there are many

who will swear it's true

that brother all we are

and yet it seems there are very few

who will answer a brother's call

oh brother

where are you?

they told me that you came this way

brother

where are you?

they said you came this way

where are you?

where are you?

brother

where are you?

oh brother

brother

where are you?

where are you?

brother

where are you?

brother

where are you?

where are you?