The Younger One

Music and Lyric by David W. Jacobsen
Copyright 1998. All Rights Reserved.

He spent the whole of his childhood
in the shadows of his brother
crying to be seen.

He spent all those years there
screaming in the corner
dying to be heard.

Daddy never looked up from his newspaper.
Mother never looked up from her magazine.
No one ever noticed the younger one's needs.

So he hated his brother
who was so much more able.
He's much like the one who built the first city.

All that anger
and such frustration
beating on the soul.

Daddy never looked up from his newspaper.
Mother never looked up from her magazine.
No one ever noticed the younger one's needs.

Aggressive movements
on other lost souls
bruises for rewards.

Nightly watering
too shitfaced to wonder
is there something more.

Daddy never looked up from his newspaper.
Mother never looked up from her magazine.
No one ever noticed the younger one.