My Brother Esau (single B-side) Lyrics - Grateful Dead

My brother Esau killed the hunter back in 1969 

Before the killing was done his inheritance was mine 

When at first my brother walked away before a weary band 

Esau gave his sleeplessness for a piece of moral land 

Our father favored Esau, he was eager to obey 

All the wild commandments, the old man shot his way 

But all this ended when my brother failed at war 

He staggered home and found me in the door 

Esau, he's on roller skates today 

And he make a statement to someone in L.A. 

Sometimes at night I dream, he's still that hairy man 

Shadow boxing the apocalypse, wandering the land 

Esau holds the blessing, brother Esau holds the curse 

I was thinking that the blame was mine 

But suspected something worse 

The more my brother looks like me, the more I understand