Brothers

The Black Keys Brothers Lyrics
1.Every Lasting Light

Writer(s):Dan AuerbachPatrick Carney

Let me be your everlasting light
Sun when there is night
Im a Shepard for you
And Ill guide you through
Let me be your everlasting light

Let me be your everlasting light
In me you can confide
I'm always by your side
Let me be your everlasting light

Oh baby, cant you see?
It shining just for you
Loneliness is over
Dark days are through
Theyre through

Let me be your everlasting light
Long is the code
That makes this straight road
Let me be your everlasting light

Let me be your everlasting light

Let me be your everlasting light

Be your everlasting light


2.Next Girl

Writer(s):Dan AuerbachPatrick Carney

Well, the look on the cake
It ain't always the taste
My ex-girl she had
Such a beautiful face
I wanted love
But not for myself
But for the girl
So she could love herself

Oh my next girl
Will be nothing like my ex-girl
I made mistakes back then
I'll never do it again
With my next girl
She'll be nothing like my ex-girl
It was a painful dance
And I got a second chance

Oh, a beautiful face
And a wicked way
And I'm paying for her beautiful face
Everyday
All that work
Over so much time
If I think too hard
I might lose my mind

Oh my next girl
Will be nothing like my ex-girl
I made mistakes back then
I'll never do it again
With my next girl
She'll be nothing like my ex-girl
It was a painful dance
And I got a second chance

Oh my next girl

My next girl


3.Tighten Up

Writer(s):Dan AuerbachPatrick Carney

I wanted love
I needed love
Most of all
Most of all
Someone said true love was dead
And I'm bound to fall
Bound to fall for you
Oh what can I do

Take my badge
But my heart remains
Loving you, baby child
Tighten up on you reins
Your runnin wild
Runnin wild
It's true

Sick for days
So many ways
Im achin now
Achin now
Its times like these I need relief
Please show me how
Oh show me how
To get right
Yeah it's outta sight

When I was young
And movin fast
Nothin slowed me down
Oh slowed me down
Now I let the others pass
I've come around
Oh come around
Cause I've found...

Living just to keep going
Goin just to be sane
All the while not knowin
It's such a shame

I dont need to get steady
I know just how I feel
I'm tellin you to be ready
My dear


4.Howlin' For You

Writer(s):Dan AuerbachPatrick Carney

Alright

Yeah

Well now

I must admit
I cant explain
Any of these thoughts
Racing through my brain
Its true
Baby Im howlin for you

Alright

There's something wrong
With this plot
The actors here
Have not got
A clue
Baby Im howlin for you

Da da da da

Mocking Bird
Can't you see?
Little girls
Gotta hold on me
Like glue
Baby Im howlin for you

Yeah

Throw the ball
To the stick
Swing and miss
And catchers mitt
Strike Two
Baby Im howlin for you

Yeah

Yeah

Da da da da


5.She's Long Gone

Writer(s):Dan AuerbachPatrick Carney

She was made to blow you away
She don't care what any man say
You can watch her strut
But keep your mouth shut
Or it's ruination day

She's long, long gone
She's long gone like
Moses through the corn

Her eyes are rubies and pearls
And she's not made like those other girls
Her lashes flap and they smack men back
Like springs they bounce off of her curls

She's long, long gone
She's long gone like
Moses through the corn


6.Black Mud

Writer(s):Dan AuerbachPatrick Carney


7.The Only One

Writer(s):Dan AuerbachPatrick Carney

Can't expain
NO I cannot contain
Control
You have all my soul
Its all I do
Is baby dream of you
Fallin down
When you're around
You're the only one
You're the only one
I'm so wrapped up in your gaze
Hoping this is just a phase
But when all is said and done
I know you are still the one
You're the only one
You're the only one
Cupids bow has sprung
Now you're the only one
Mystery
Is what this is to me
Given up
I'm having no luck
Like a ghost
The one that I love most
Disppears when I get near
You're the only one
You're the only one
I'm so wrapped up in your gaze
Hoping this is just a phase
But when all is said and done
I know you are still the one
You're the only one
You're the only one
Cupids bow has sprung
Now you're the only one
Uh uh only one
Uh uh only one
Uh uh only one
Uh uh only one
Uh uh only one
Uh uh only one
Uh uh only one
Uh uh only one


8.Too Afraid To Love

Writer(s):Dan AuerbachPatrick Carney

Whoa

My gears they grind
More each day
And I feel like
Theyre gonna grind away

Whoa

And the city blocks
They drive me wild
Theyre never ending
Mile after mile

I just don't know what to do
Im too afraid to love you

Heaven on Earth
Is in her embrace
A gentle touch
And a smiling face

Im just one wishing I was a pair
With someone oh somewhere

I just don't know what to do
Im too afraid to love you

All those sleepless nights
And all those wasted days
I wish loneliness would leave me
But I think it's here to stay
What more can I do
Cause Im ringin myself dry
And I cant afford to lose
One more teardrop from my eye

Whoa

Im too afraid
Im too afraid
I just don't know what to do
With myself
Thinkin all the time

Don't know what to do

Don't know what to do

Drivin me outta my mind


9.Ten Cent Pistol

Writer(s):Dan AuerbachPatrick Carney

Well he ran around
Late at night
Holding hands
Makin light
Of everything
That came before
But there she was
Behind the door

She hit them with
Her ten cent pistol
Because they ruined her name
She hit them with
Her ten cent pistol
And they never were the same

Theres nothing worse
In this world
Than payback from
A jealous girl
The laws of man
They don't apply
When blood gets in
A womans eye

Well she hit them with
Her ten cent pistol
Because they ruined her name
She hit them with
Her ten cent pistol
And they never were the same

Stars did fall
Thunder rolled
Bugs crawled back
In their holes
The couple screamed
But it was far too late
A jealous heart
Did retaliate

She hit them with
Her ten cent pistol
Because they ruined her name
Well she hit them with
Her ten cent pistol
And they never been the same

Oh the same

Oh the same

Never been the same


10.Sinister Kid

Writer(s):Dan AuerbachPatrick Carney

Uh

Well the crooks are out
And the streets are grey
You know I wouldn't have it
Any other way
Yeah
Your mothers words
are ringin still
But your mother
don't pay our bills

Yeah

A sinister kid
Is a kid who
Runs to meet his maker
A child thats sprinting
The day hes born
Straight into his Makers arms
And thats me, thats me
The boy with the broken halo
That's me, thats me
The devil wont
Let me be

I've got a tortured mind
And my blade is sharp
A bad combination
In the dark
If I kill a man in the first degree
Baby would you
Would you flee with me?

Yeah

A sinister kid
Is a kid who
Runs to meet his maker
A child thats sprinting
The day hes born
Straight into his Makers arms
And thats me, thats me
The boy with the broken halo
That's me, thats me
The devil wont
Let me be

Alright

A sinister kid
Is a kid who
Runs to meet his maker
A child thats sprinting
The day hes born
Straight into his Makers arms
And thats me, thats me
The boy with the broken halo
That's me, thats me
The devil wont
Let me be


11.The Go Getter

Writer(s):Dan AuerbachPatrick Carney

The go-getter
Ill be the go-getter
Yes I am
Ill be the go-getter
That's my plan
The go-getter

Hi-fi boom box
Pretty girl in bobby sox
After party in a hotel room
Pretty soon there will be no moon
Stumble home in the pouring rain
Let the water eat my worried brain
Some days I just cant get along
I need a head to leave my shoulders on

Palm trees
Flat broke disease
And LA has got me
On my knees
I am the bluest of blues
Everyday a different way to lose
The go-getter
The go-getter
The go-getter

I gotta table at the Rainbow Room
I told my wife Id be home soon
Big ships approaching the docks
I got my hi-fi boom box
Mashed potatoes in cellophane
I see my life going down the drain
Hold me, baby, dont let go
Pretty girls have to soften the blow

Yeah

Palm trees
Flat broke disease
LA has got me
On my knees
I am the bluest of blues
Everyday a different way to lose
The go-getter
The go-getter
The go-getter
Ill be the go-getter

Thats my plan
Thats who I am
The go-getter
The go-getter


12.I'm Not The One

Writer(s):Dan AuerbachPatrick Carney

Ive been tried
And Ive been tested
I was born tired
I never got rested
Harder than
Marble Stone
I'm better off
Better off left alone
Cause I'm not the one
No not the one

You wanted it all
But I give you
Give you none
I'm not the one

Well like a toy
To a kid
I said jump
And momma you did
And you know
Your Daddy knows
And your Momma knows
Thats wrong
So now its time
For me to move on
Because I'm not the
No Im not the one

You wanted it all
And I give you
Give you none
Im not the one

No, on no, no
Im not the one

No, oh no, no
Im not the one

You think that
I'm normal
All these years
Im just trying to warn ya
Youd do good to move on
No it wont
It wont hurt me none
Cause Im not the one
No Im not the one

You wanted it all
But I give you
Give you none
Im not the one
No Im not the one
Yeah

No, no, no
Im not the one

Not the one for you

Not the one

Not the one


13.Unknown Brother

Writer(s):Dan AuerbachPatrick Carney

Though I never met you
And we spoke not a word
Ill never forget you
From the stories Ive heard
For you unknown brother
My baby's mothers pain
Cause your soul is in heaven
But your memory remains

Unknown
Unknown brother
Ill meet you someday
Unknown
Unknown brother
We walk through fields
Where children play

Your eyes shine bright
When you were a kid
Your sisters loved you
And all that you did
Big brother, big brother
Don't worry a bit
Your flame has not faded
Since the day it was lit

Your life was joy
Your mommas only boy
And when the skies are blue
Big brother
Theyre blue for you

We will smile like pictures
Of you as a boy
Before you retired
To Heavenly joy

Unknown
Unknown brother
Ill meet you someday
Unknown
Unknown brother
We walk through fields
Where children play

Da da da da


14.Never Gonna Give You Up

Writer(s):Leon HuffJerry ButlerKenneth Gamble

Never gonna give you up
No matter how you treat me
Never gonna give you up
So don't you think of leavin

Girl you treat me bad
And I know why
Ive seen you runnin around
With another guy
And you think if you hurt me
Then Ill go away
But I made up in my mind
That Im here to stay

Never gonna give you up
No matter how you treat me
Never gonna give you up
So dont you think of leavin
Baby dont you understand
What you're doing to the man?

Do you see these tears in my eyes?
Theres no use in me lyin
Cause I really cried
You think you're gonna take me
And put me on the shelf
Id rather die than see you
With somebody else

Never gonna give you up
No matter how you treat me
Never gonna give you up
So dont you think of leavin
Baby dont you understand
What you're doing to the man?

Well my friends all say
That Im your fool
And youre using me
Like a carpenter uses a tool
I know their intentions
There all very good
Some of them would help me
If they could

But Im never gonna give you up
No matter how you treat me
Never gonna give you up
So dont you think of leavin
Baby dont you understand
What you're doing to the man?

Never gonna give you up
No matter how you treat me
Never gonna give you up
So dont you think of leavin

Never gonna give you up
No matter how you treat me
Never gonna give you up
So dont you think of leavin


15.These Days

Writer(s):Dan AuerbachPatrick Carney

My hand to God
I didn't mean to
After all what we been through
Men come in different shapes
Its how were made

Little house on Ellis Drive
Where I felt most alive
The oak tree covers that old Ford
I miss it Lord
I miss it Lord
These blood red eyes
Don't see so good
But whats worse is if they could
Would I change my ways?
Wasted times and broken dreams
Violent colors, so obscene
Is all I see these days
These days

Watch what you say
The devil is listening
Hes got ears
That you wouldn't believe
And brother
Once you go to him
Its your soul
You can never
Never, never retrieve

These blood red eyes
Don't see so good
But whats worse is if they could
Would I change my ways?
Wasted times and broken dreams
Violent colors, so obscene
Is all I see these days
These days

Days
These days
All I see
These days
See these days
All I see