She knows I'm not that brave And cry when Frodo leaves She's why I got this flat That's way too big for the two of us However, now she's gone But you smile at everything You've seen them come and go before ♪ It's quiet for awhile You light a cigarette Even from afar You know my thoughts by their silhouettes So we don't have to talk For now a beer's enough To make the rain seem far away The brother of my heart Lives in you, I know As long as they beat I will always have a Safe retreat 'Cause brotherhood's an art and we paint when we fall And on this canvas colors are painted on once and for all You say I've put on weight I say you've lost some hair Since nineteen-ninty-eight When we dreamt of France in the summer air Suddenly I'm back to when I smiled at everything And got my first can of paint and learned The brother of my heart Lives in you, I know As long as they beat I will always have a safe retreat 'Cause brotherhood's an art and we paint when we fall And on this canvas colors are painted on once and for all ♪ I build these castles made of sand Again and again and think that they will do, but start anew With less sand than I had before And one more time I loose it to the shore It's a state of war Na-na-na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na I build these castles made of sand Again and again and think that they will do, but start anew With less sand than I had before And one more time I loose it to the shore It's a state of war I build these castles made of sand Again and again and think that they will do, but start anew With less sand than I had before And one more time I loose it to the shore