Dm         G            Dm 
How can I repay you brother mine? 
Dm        G      C   F      A7 
How can I expect you to forgive? 
 Dm        G            Dm 
Clinging to the past I shed our blood, 
D   C                         Dm 
and shattered your chance to live. 

Dm        G            Dm 
Though I knew the laws I paid no heed. 
Dm        G      C   F       A7 
How can I return your wasted breath? 
Dm          G            Dm 
What I did not know has cost you dear, 
D   C                     Dm 
For there is no cure for death. 

(Chorus) 
F          G         F        G 
Beautiful mother, soft and sweet 
F             G             Bb     C 
Once you were gone we were not complete. 
F                 G         F        G 
Back through the years we reached for you. 
F               G       Am 
Alas, twas not ment to be. 
Bb            C       F 
And how can I make amends, 
Bb             C         F 
for all that I took from you? 
G                Am         Bb 
I lead you with hopeless dreams. 
G            Am      Dm 
My brother I was a fool. 

Dm                G             Dm 
Don't cry for the past now brother mine, 
Dm           G     C   F          A7 
Neither you nor I are free from blame. 
Dm              G          Dm 
Nothing can erase the things we did, 
D   C                       Dm 
For the path we took was the same. 

F          G         F        G 
Beautiful mother, soft and sweet 
F               G           Bb      C 
Once you were gone we were not complete. 
F                  G         F        G 
Back through the years we reached for you. 
F               G       Am 
Alas, twas not ment to be. 
Bb                  C       F 
My dreams made me blind and mute, 
Bb              C           F 
I longed to return to that time, 
  G           Am      Bb 
I followed without a word. 
   G            Am       Dm 
My brother the fault is mine. 

Bb             C       F 
So where do we go from here? 
Bb            C         F 
And how to forget and forgive? 
       G           Am    Bb 
What's gone is forever lost. 
    G          Am     Dm 
Now all we can do is live.