The Older Brother Says Goodbye

Won't you turn your back on this moment for a moment And look with me on the brazen days, the highball all nighters And let's not return to face the day The day that I have ordained Till the clock in my chest begins to tick a little lighter We built our kingdom on crystal rocks that came from Jakarta And Chinese pure tinted our windows, gilded the frames Yeah we rode the ice floe all the way to the top of the market Where in burning neons we spelt out our coded names Beginners luck begins to dwindle Like stars when the dawn comes I drifted from you as you drifted too damn close to the source Yeah you sure got a taste for more than the job And then you wanted the keys to my kingdom Well I couldn't step back and just watch nature take its course So here we stand on the threshold of our separate ways And this is not the kind of scene you get to rehearse Where I am the one about to break The only commandment we haven't yet broken And you are the one who said to always plan for the worst