[Chorus: Charene]
I promise if you spoke with me
I'd talk with you, I'd listen
I'd try to tell you, help you
Understand, but words are missin'
I don't know how to
Translate the way I feel so it
Shows, so you know
That we're lost alone
[Verse 1: David Dallas]
Funny relationship, five years my senior
My closest sibling by age, the reality is neither
One of us knows how to communicate or, even
If we love or hate each other, fuck knows how we feelin', man
Would you care if I stopped breathin'? Would you grieve?
If you could speak to me, how different would things bе?
It used to be just me and you so much, who would bеlieve
Twelve years down the track, that you'd barely share a room with me?
And that's on both of us, I guess we get uncomfortable
Ignore you in the hall like, man, I had enough of you
Ignore me at the table like you had enough of me
And there's only so much silence a bond can suffer through
Till we barely brothers, dude, a lifetime of bein'
Stuck with you, it just amazes me to think our grudges grew
To this, cold, barely acknowledge you exist
Minus what I look like, you don't even know who this is
Likewise, for me, your baby brother
Your mother's youngest son, family ties come undone
Runnin' from that past when I could express
When I could still talk to you, man, when did we stop? I forget
Regret it, but my demeanour says I don't
Your demeanour says you don't, we could change, but we won't, 'cause the
Distance of this language barrier is there
And the stubborn pride seems to be the only thing we share
[Chorus: Charene]
I promise if you spoke with me
I'd talk with you, I'd listen
I'd try to tell you, help you
Understand, but words are missin'
I don't know how to
Translate the way I feel so it
Shows, so you know
That we're lost alone
[Verse 2: David Dallas]
I see the frustration in that look of despise
That look in your eyes, it's sufferin' you disguise
Sufferin' that you hide, between you and I
Behind that angry face, make like I am erased
State you're a man that way, and I can't blame you at all
Hold against you at all, I hate that that hand was gave
To you instead of someone else, why not someone else?
It coulda been, shoulda been, we woulda been someone else
Guess I'm just selfish, all I wanted's my brother's help
And I'm just helpless, can't help through my brother's hell
I can't giveth what God taketh away
And all I can give ain't nothin' that you wanna take anyway
And that's the problem, ain't outstretchin' my hand
Because you can't accept, don't wanna feel like less of a man
Don't want my help, don't wanna feel I got the best of you, man
'Cause little brother should look up to you, to envy you, man
Depend on you, stand and protect 'em, command his respect
And you're feelin' that that ain't happenin' has the hardest effect
That's why you gotta act tough with me, be hard for respect
And then our hands speak, resolvin' arguments with our fists
What's sad is the anger is the only feelin' we communicate
Not the pain behind it that causes me and you to break
With our hands, is there somethin' that me or you could say?
If there is, then maybe we should talk, before it's too late
[Chorus: Charene, David Dallas]
I promise if you spoke with me
I'd talk with you, I'd listen
I'd try to tell you, help you
Understand, but words are missin'
I don't know how to
Translate the way I feel so it
Shows, so you know
That we're lost alone (Uh)
[Verse 3: David Dallas]
The irony is thick that I could be most honest here
On a song, simply 'cause it's somethin' that you'll never hear
That I could fear just tellin' you alone worse than
Puttin' it on paper and recordin' it for the whole world
Takes more courage to say it to you, to say the truth
I'm a coward, scared to admit my failures to you
If I could take it back, I could, man, I wouldn't forget
How to speak to you for good, man, I wouldn't forget
To think I used to be embarrassed 'cause my brother's different
Man, who the fuck was I to think that I was any different?
Any more normal, wasn't half of a man
'Cause real men stand up, they are proud of their fam
Are there for their fam, won't leave 'em, care for their fam
And David isn't there, I symbolised everything that isn't fair
But, now, I see this blessing wasn't just for me to use
We speak without ears, I was put here to hear for you
[Chorus: Charene]
I promise if you spoke with me
I'd talk with you, I'd listen
I'd try to tell you, help you
Understand, but words are missin'
I don't know how to
Translate the way I feel so it
Shows, so you know
That we're lost alone
