《My Brother Esau(Live at Hampton Coliseum， Hampton， VA， 4/14/1984)》歌词

[00:00:00] My Brother Esau - Grateful Dead

[00:00:40] My brother Esau killed a hunter

[00:00:43] Back in 1969

[00:00:47] And before the killing was done,

[00:00:50] His inheritance was mine.

[00:00:54] But his birthright was a wand to wave

[00:00:57] Before a weary band.

[00:01:00] Esau gave me sleeplessness

[00:01:04] And a piece of moral land.

[00:01:17] My father favored Esau,

[00:01:21] Who was eager to obey

[00:01:24] All the bloody wild commandments

[00:01:27] The Old Man shot his way.

[00:01:31] When my brother failed at war.

[00:01:31] But all this favor ended

[00:01:37] He staggered home

[00:01:39] And found me in the door.

[00:01:44] Esau skates on mirrors anymore...

[00:01:50] He meets his pale reflection at the door.

[00:01:58] Yet sometimes at night I dream

[00:02:01] He's still that hairy man,

[00:02:05] Shadowboxing the Apocalypse

[00:02:08] And wandering the land.

[00:02:11] Shadowboxing the Apocalypse

[00:02:15] And wandering the land.

[00:03:16] Esau holds a blessing;

[00:03:19] Brother Esau bears a curse.

[00:03:23] I would say that the blame is mine

[00:03:26] But I suspect it's something worse.

[00:03:30] The more my brother looks like me,

[00:03:33] The less I understand

[00:03:36] The silent war that bloodied both our hands.

[00:03:43] Sometimes at night, I think I understand.

[00:03:57] Really at night, I think I understand.

[00:04:11] It's brother to brother and it's man to man

[00:04:13] The shadowdance, it never ends...

[00:04:34] Never ends, never ends.

[00:04:35] Shadowboxing the Apocalypse, yet again...

[00:04:42] Yet again.

[00:04:45] Shadowboxing the Apocalypse,

[00:04:48] And wandering the land