Bars For My Brother Lyrics

Bars For My Brother by Lowkey

• I hope you're somewhere listening to this
• I wish I knew why you did what you did
• Cause I still haven't really come to terms with the truth
• There must have been something you were determined to do
• The lessons you taught me, I can't forget
• But there's so many unanswered questions
• Now everything seems meaningless
• You lived fast and died young
• But my brother you were a genius
• How could you ever believe that you'll survive
• I don't care what they say, that shit is suicide
• I won't lie, there was much distance between you and I
• I should've told you not to do it, don't be stupid
• You've got looks, got brains and your future's bright
• Now you're gone I feel like I'm gon' lose my mind
• I never thought you'd get yourself organised
• I wish we saw the signs, the shock left us all traumatised
• These are awful times, and I need more than rhymes
• Cause this was more than a tragedy
• You can't just cheat the forces of gravity
• You left me here to hold a brave face supporting the family

• In a way you were dying to live
• It's fucked up man, I'm crying while I'm writing this shit
• Water from my eyes is stopping me from lighting my spliff
• Why didn't you realise that your life is a gift
• Mum and Dad don't understand why they've outlived their son
• Every single CD, Mix Tape and Album to come
• Is dedicated to no other than my blood brother
• But I hate you, for the way you made my Mum suffer
• Words can't explain, how a certain part of my heart hurts with the harshest pain
• Last time we spoke, we said we weren't brothers and we aren't the same
• I told myself you were too far past insane
• How could we not take your death badly
• I just asked mum and she said your name meant happy

• But my soul is too cold to laugh
• My heart bleeds when I'm looking at your old school photograph
• I wish that I could touch your beautiful flesh
• I'm writing but we ain't even had the funeral yet
• Now death is something, that I'm staying ever ready for
• You had plenty more to give, you weren't even 24
• I don't understand why you had to die
• In a lot of rappers rhymes, death is glamorised
• Not me, I'll always stay remembering you
• I should've known this was something you'd eventually do
• When you got shift, we should've known it was bad
• The next day I was sitting here consoling my Dad
• It's like a nightmare, it still doesn't seem real

• But this is my life, not some fucking deep film
• It's the strange feeling I felt in the late night
• Witnesses said that you fell from a great height
• Can't be my brother man, tell me it ain't right
• Right now I'd rather blaze, we could face life
• Shit what a waste, what a shame
• I just gotta make sure your life wasn't lost in vain
• This is my brother, not just a departed friend
• So hard for my |?| to start again
• From now on our lives will never be the same
• We holding on too tight for the memories to fade
• 24 years was hardly a life
• On the day you passed, it's like a part of me died
• I've been scarred many times but this pain is so much worse
• And it's so much harder to describe
• You will still be missed
• I'm sorry we didn't support you, we thought we did
• I wish I broke your leg so you couldn't jump
• Now all I can do...is rep your fuckin name like I should've done
• Cause it's only right
• I'm still not sleeping, but now I'm seeing your ghost at night
• We all wish we could've stopped you
• I know I can't go back in time now, but I want to
• It's like a tightened knot that I can't undo
• Why did I have to lose you to realise I loved you
• Be careful what you wish for, in case it comes true
• Right now I'm confused, feeling so subdued
• When they arrested you, they wanted to sanction you
• The only thing we did wrong was going and getting you
• Next morning you was up, not doing what you was meant to do
• That wasn't the life that you were meant to have
• That wasn't the way that it was meant to be
• You were sick, not physically but mentally
• I still ain't got a fraction of this shit off of my chest
• All that goes through my mind is the constant regret
• Why why why did you die for no reason
• All of a sudden the weathers cold its so freezin
• Have you ever head the saying, when it rains it pours
• Don't ever try to tell me my pain is the same as yours
• Cause it's not, and everything isn't what it seems
• I'm pinching myself but I know that this is not a dream
• Why did you have to do that, this isn't fair
• Listen my brother, never think that I didn't care
• There's no words to describe the way that this feels
• Now I can clearly separate the fake from the real
• Why did everyone else have to be bro
• I still can't quiet believe that you're actually gone
• Just 5 days, 5 days and it feels like the same day
• Weed ain't helpin but I need it just to maintain
• Cause the bleak reality is terrible
• And last night mom was practically hysterical
• People I thought would care, couldn't care less
• I need a lot of support cause I'm feeling bare stressed
• And everyone else seems immature
• I'm being tested, thinking what is there left that I'm living for
• I need to clear my thoughts, stop thinking and try n breathe
• Just a week ago I was so innocent and naive
• Now my insides are burning like hells flames
• I've realised up until now I've never felt pain
• It's so evident that everything I cared about before was so irrelevant
• There's certain people that call when they see that this shit is hurtin
• But I see them for what they are now cause I'm a different person

• R.I.P
• In fact fuck R.I.P
• I want you to live through me
• Live through me...
• Live through me...
• Live...through...me...

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