Older brother, restless soul, lie down Lie for a while with your ear against the earth And you'll hear your sister sleep talking Saying your hair is long but not long enough To reach home to me Oh, but your beard someday might be And she wake up in a cold sweat on the floor Next to a family portrait drawn when you were four And beside a jar of 2 cent coins that are no good, no more She'll lay it aside ♪ Older father, weary soul, you drive Out to the home you made on the mountainside With that ugly terrible thing The papers for divorce and a lonely ring Lonely ring Sit on your porch Pluck your strings And you'll find somebody you can blame And you follow the creek that runs out into the sea And you'll find the peace of the Lord ♪ Grandfather, weary soul, you fly Hope for your life once more before you die Since our grandma passed away You've waited for forever and a day Oh, just to die 'Cause someday soon you will die And the only woman you ever loved She got burnt by the sun too often when she was young And the cancer spread, it ran into her body and her blood And there's nothing that you can do about it now