big brother got bruised by a cannonball made the news when he threw it down to wichita little brother just chews on a dirty bomb calls the girl that works at the telethon brothers don t bleed it s a cut of a different kind grandpa grew trees now the green runs through our spine big brother builds pews out of cinderblocks singing hymns with girl at the telethon calls a friend when she s out taking local calls meets him out at a bar outside of wichita little brother just chews on a dirt bomb lets his brain melt away in the aftershock in the flame calls the girl at the telethon tells her all about the bar outside of wichita you don t start clean spines are twisting in the rings this old tree been around before you were born