I Played Drums On This

In the winter when I was eight
 I rode from state to state
 Listening to The Summer of '69
 My brother he sang it, my daddy he drove
 Through the hills of long-forgotten families
 And broken down old homes
 My brother played me cool music
 So I threw out my old tapes
 My childhood stashed up deep and attached
 To my big brother's place
 Years ago he was my hero and like
 That gets us to the night we went
 We caught bugs, bright light stars, in tight-lidded jars
 But I grew out of it
 The brighter they are, the faster they burn
 Oh, big brother you never did learn
 You strangled all your options
 You sucked out all their breath
 Ken, you're high as a kite and you're as low as they get
 You came to the west coast
 On a Sunday
 Robbed dear daddy blind
 Tried to board a train back home
 Sold your pass for cheap white lines
 Daddy came and picked you up
 The car was quiet then
 His head hung like a white flag
 On Monday you did it all again
 The brighter they are, the faster they burn
 Oh, big brother you never did learn
 You strangled all your options
 You sucked out all their breath
 Ken, you're high as a kite and you're as low as they get
 And in between the fighting
 The pressure of yourself
 The promise to get better stacked up on a dusty shelf
 You miss the point completely
 Self fulfill your sabotage
 Father taught you how to fish
 Instead you ate the fish he caught
 The brighter they are, the faster they burn
 Oh, big brother you never did learn
 You strangled all your options
 You sucked out all their breath
 Yeah, you're high as a kite
 The brighter you are, the faster you burn
 Big brother you never did learn
 You strangled all your loved ones
 You sucked out all our breath
 Ken, you're high as a kite and you're as low as they get