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what happened to my brother chords by
Mark Kozelek
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Key: D minor
Intro 1
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What happened to my
Verse 1

brother

The life in his eyes?
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Did something shake his brain
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On that long bus ride?
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What happened to my
Verse 2

brother?

Swear he had my mother's
Em
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face

What I'd give to find him
Verse 3

Hold him in a long embrace
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What happened to his body?
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Why's he look so white and empty?
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When he shows up at my door
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Just don't know him
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Used to sit and talk for days
Verse 4


Now he lays there in a haze
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'Til some tiny little nothin'
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Triggers psychotic eruption
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What happens when he's
Verse 5

sleepin'?

Why's he wake up cryin'

and screamin'?
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Walkin' into walls and runnin'
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Like hungry animals are comin'
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To gnaw his bones, lap up his
Verse 6

blood

From a ditch bank in the mud
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Leave his scarecrow in the sticks

For the black birds
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Verse 7

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And the blue jays to pick
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For the nature to encroach

For the wanderers to approach
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For the snow and autumn leaves
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To be buried underneath
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For the rivers to rise
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Wash him out into the tides
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What happened to my
Verse 8

brother?
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He used to have his pick of lovers
F
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A whole array of pretty ones
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My brother was a silver Sun
Verse 9
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A heavyweight, a head bull
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A frontman and waterfall
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A stoic prince, not the second
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But the first violin
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Verse 10
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so for,
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Dm
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so forget the viola
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Am
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Am
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So for, so for, so forget cello
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Dm
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Am
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So for, so for,
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Dm
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so forget the violin
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He's up, he's up,
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he's up in his room
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Gone solo
Verse 11
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He used to dazzle us
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Leave a trail of magic dust
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At the end of every joke
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We would laugh so hard, we'd choke
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He could turn over a stone
Verse 12

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Find an endless well of poems
F
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Used to bring the sweetest gifts
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Am
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We went to him to be uplifted
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Inspiration, friendship
Verse 13

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We needed love, we needed tips
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Oh, how I miss, how I miss
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My brother, I miss
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You ask me what's he
Verse 14

do?
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He swallows reds, he swallows blues
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Stares off in the night sky
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You ask me what's he do?
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So for,
Verse 15
Am
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so for,
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F
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Dm
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so forget the viola
F
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Am
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So for, so for,
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Am
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Dm
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so forget the cello
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Am
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So for, so for,
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Am
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so forget the violin
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He's up, he's up,
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he's up there

Layin' low

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Chords
  • Am

  • G

  • Em

  • F

  • Dm

Capo: 5

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The original key of what happened to my brother by Mark Kozelek is D minor.

The primary chords used in what happened to my brother are Dm, C, Am, Bb, Gm.

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