Son & Brother

from Son & Brother Coming Home by Chap Bernet

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I sleep to dream the day I’m home again.
Will there be snow?
Or will I feel the rain, that turns the ground to green?
Oh Lord I’ve played the son and brother gone from home too long,
Gone from home too long.

I’ll ask my daddy how’s the business been?
Been fast or slow?
Or in the middle, nestled in between?
Oh Daddy I’ve missed you every day that I’ve been gone,
Every day that I’ve been gone.

Oh and this old map leads me while I’m walking through the light,
And memories my stars that I follow through the night.
Dreaming of the morning they welcome me inside.
Dreaming someday home and I will reunite.

I’ll make my mom some coffee in the kitchen,
With ice to make it cold.
Just how she takes it, two sugars hold the cream.
Oh Ma you’re just as lovely as you were when I left home,
As you were when I left home.

I’ll take my little brother fishing,
And we’ll find sticks for poles.
Roll our jeans up, put our feet into the stream.
Oh Brother I hold you close like the river holds the stone,
Like the river holds the stone.

Oh and this old map leads me while I’m walking through the light,
And memories my stars that I follow through the night.
Dreaming of the morning they welcome me inside.
Dreaming someday home and I will reunite.

My sister will not let me meet her boyfriend
This much I know.
Cause she knows to me, too young she’ll always be.
Oh Sister should he treat you wrong, you’ll mend your heart and he his bones,
Mend your heart and he his bones.

I sleep to dream the day I’m home again.
Will there be snow?
Or will I feel the rain, that turns the ground to green?
Oh Lord I’ve played the son and brother gone from home too long,
Gone from home too long.
Oh gone from home too long.

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from Son & Brother Coming Home, released January 8, 2016

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