Little Brother Lyrics

Lyric discussion by namedujour 

Cover art for Little Brother lyrics by Grizzly Bear

Wow. I hear something totally different from everyone else. The little brother is "up in arms" - a soldier, no doubt, who is "pride of my countrymen". References to the little brother are all past tense, so he's evidently killed, will be born again (a hope that they'll see each other again?? Next life, perhaps?) and the singer wishes for things to go back to where they were, "quiet", and crawls into bed to escape the grief.

@namedujour That's what I saw. The little brother has been killed and the big brither misses him. War is not the way. It's not about baptism. The rebirth is the hope in a resurrection of peace.