Cowboy Junkies Brothers Under The Bridge Lyrics

Brothers Under The Bridge Lyrics

[Bruce Springsteen cover]



Saigon, it was all gone

The same
coke machines as the streets i grew on

Down a mesquite canyon we come
walking along the ridge

Me and the brothers under the bridge



Campsite's an hour's walk from the nearest road to town

Up here there's
too much brush and canyon for the chp choppers to touch down

Ain't lookin'
for nothin', just wanna live

Me and the brothers under the bridge



Come the santa ana's, man, that dry brush'll light

Billy devon
got burned up in his own campfire one winter night

We buried his body in
the white stone high up along the ridge

Me and the brothers under the
bridge



Had enough of town and the street life

Over nothing
you end up on the wrong end of someone's knife

Now i don't want no
trouble and i ain't got none to give

Me and the brothers under the
bridge



I come home in '72

You were just a beautiful light in
your mama's dark eyes of blue

I stood down on the tarmac, i was just a
kid

Me and the brothers under the bridge



Come veteran's day
i sat in the stands in my dress blues

I held your mother's hand when they
passed with the red, white and blue

One minute you're right there . . .
Then something slips . . .