I wasn't there   But my mother swore she saw the angel Gabriel   The day that I was born      I never dreamed   Anything like that   But I remember giving my new brother   Half my toys      That's how we lived   And to mouth and spirit, never fearing   We'd grow up like the jesters that we were      And when we'd weathered their storm   They brought us wine   But we turned our glasses over   Didn't shake our heads or notice   When they said, 'Excuse me, sir?'   They did not realise   We would carve them into time      Time brought us well   Well beyond the reach of anyone   We both had won together in the rain      Still, it must come   As he stopped to light a cigarette   I walked ahead   We never were the same      And he bled dirty red wine   And I drank gin      As the miles grew thick between us   And I read my Shakespeare, dug my grave   And he swam the horizon, his new friend      And I woke up   On the sidewalk   Just another night of soft decline   I wonder where my shoes went   As I'm walking into traffic signs      I meet him   Half-delivered   But he calls me brother, joy and lover   No more   This is too much   All at once      And at last we stand eye to eye   But he looks so tall   And I don't know how it happened   But the days have gone; we were so young   But we both turn   And we both say   "Yes I know   I would turn you into stone."