(song lyrics, thoughts)
(Ed)
How can I repay you, brother mine?
How could he make it up to Al?
How can I expect you to forgive?
Why would Al have any reason to forgive him?
Clinging to the past, I shed our blood.
They had come out of it bloody, battered, and broken. And without what they had set out to achieve.
Shattered your chance to live.
Al's life ahead had been ruined, all because of this.
Though I knew the laws, I paid no heed.
They had been warned never to do it. They did it anyway.
How can I return your wasted breath?
What could he do to return Al's body?
What I did not know has cost you dear,
Because of his mistake, Al had paid the price.
For there is no cure for death.
No matter what anyone said, there was nothing you could do about the dead.
Beautiful mother, soft and sweet,
Their mother had been so kind…
Once you were gone we were not complete.
There was an empty hole in their lives where she had been.
Back through the years we reached for you,
They tried to go back, have that again.
Alas 'twas not meant to be.
It failed.
And how can I make amends?
Was there a way to repay it?
For all that I took from you?
What his brother had lost because of him?
I led you with hopeless dreams,
He told him of his ideas, and they hoped, while all the while it was doomed to fail.
My brother, I was a fool.
He was an idiot, it was all his fault. "Al, I'm sorry."
(Al)
Don't cry for the past now, brother mine.
Please, don't blame what you did back then.
Neither you nor I are free from blame.
Neither of them was innocent.
Nothing can erase the things we did,
They could never undo what had happened.
For the path we took was the same.
They had both tried to do Human Transmutation.
Beautiful mother, soft and sweet,
Their mother had been so kind…
Once you were gone we were not complete.
There was an empty hole in their lives where she had been.
Back through the years we reached for you,
They tried to go back, have that again.
Alas 'twas not meant to be.
It failed.
And how can I make amends?
Was there a way to repay it?
For all that I took from you?
What his brother had lost because of him?
I led you with hopeless dreams,
He told him of his ideas, and they hoped, while all the while it was doomed to fail.
My brother, I was a fool.
He was an idiot, it was all his fault. "Brother, I'm sorry."
So where do we go from here?
What would they do now?
And how to forget and forgive?
Could they ever forgive themselves?
What's gone is forever lost.
There was no way to get it back.
Now all we can do is live.
If they carried on with their lives, someday, they would Get their bodies back. They would do it.
