Black Keys, The - Unknown Brother Lyrics

This song means so much to me because when I was younger my baby brother died from cancer and it impacted me so much because I loved him so much and I never got to see what he would grow up to be and this song just kills me inside

S/o to my uncle died of cancer not too long ago! I love you ❤️ I’ll see you again some day

I might be trippin but does the intro to this song sound like big balls by ac/dc

nope 100% it does.....hmmmmm

Uuuuf I've lost more than a few now.
Just long memories slipping away.
How I miss them.
How the hell did they ever get there out in front of me?
The earth is standing still
It just slowed to a stop and left me hanging out here missing them in the echo silence crystal clear.
Sigh.
My ears are ringing it's so damned quiet now.

uau, o cara q postou esse video é br kaka

Apenas mais um fã de the black keys :)

Today was the birthday of my husband's younger brother. Just like in the song, I will only ever know him from the pictures and stories people tell.

This song can turn a dull morning into me crying so beautifully and feeling so much emotion and thinking from so many point of views I almost feel one with the people who I love the most

That riff reminds me of Link Wrays "Genocide"

curto demais essa banda <3

My brother commit suicide 5 weeks ago. I miss him so much. This song is beautiful and heartbreaking. When the skies are blue, big brother, they're blue for you.

Someday soon the doors

Saludos desde Mexico! Excelente canción. Gran banda.

My depression kicks in pretty hard with this one

I never met my brother😭 when he was a 2 day old he died because he could not breathe

although this song is about a grim topic, it always surprised me how warm it is. there's pure warmth and love just emanating from it, i don't now how to describe it.

Most underrated song by The Black Keys. Amazing tune.

My brother passed away years ago and finding this song is oddly relieving somehow

I had a half brother that was born two years before me to another father. He passed after several months from who knows what. I wish that I could have grown up with an older brother. Someone to play video games with, maybe somebody to fight with at home, maybe somebody to talk to about problems with girls. Christian, I never thought of you as my brother, but I wish you were. We missed out on so much for reasons we can’t understand.

One day when my boys are old enough to understand I will play this song for them and tell them about their big brother who lives in Neverland

he knew Michael Jackson?

if this song doesn't make you feel something then get yourself down the doctors, you've got some problems

So tragic. I listen to this song now that I am older and I can't help but think that it describes a miscarriage.

Joder! cómo me encanta esta banda!

This song will give you goosebumps if you have a brother figure

This song always reminds me of my big brother who took his own life Valentine's day of 2012.. I miss you every single day 💔 even more tonight than usual. I'd give anything to see you again 😞

Rest In Peace Jonghyun 💓💓💓

This song reminds me that we are all brothers and sisters.

Sesim ayyuka çıksa yeniden
Hep bu şarkıyı söylesem
Okula hiç gitmesem.

This band fucking BLOWS CHUNKS OUT MY ASSSSS ROFL FUCK OFF

Outr is a very qw

Nii Amar Amarfio, may you know true peace and joy in Heaven.

Hmmm...

This song reminds me of harambe
RIP my nigga

Dedicated to Manuel Alejandro Ortiz. Rest in peace men, I don't know if i'll ever gonna meet you but I know that you where EVERYTHING for our mother. I love you beacuse I felt your presence when I was a kid and I feelt alone. Thanks man I know you could have been a great big brother

Can bonomo başkan 😂

I think about this for the friend who someday I hope to have. I hope I have a friend or a few I can call brothers

I know Dan personally. He is my cousin. I've spent the night at his house and have been to the studio with him and all of that good stuff. I just wanted to say that this song is a true story. His ex-wife's brother died from cancer in high school and it really Hurts her. This song is about that brother in law he never will get to meet.

Plot twist: You are Dan Auerbach. Nah, just kiddin. Do you know when they will come back ?

Corrupt Covers beautiful

I have never once wanted to change the song if its his music playing, every song is gold and i can hear a song for the 78th time and its still as good as the first time

Thanks for that insight. Its what i came to the comments section for. As a musician myself, i can tell this song is for someone that he should have known. I was curious who it was

@Nico now.

I had been dating my now fiancee a year when my twin passed away. Unfortunately I had lived states away and he never had the chance to personally meet my brother..

I always think about my half brother that I never got to meet. I have no idea where he is or what he's doing.....Matthew the son of Kurt Abbott, if you ever happen across this comment, I'm your sister.

Have you find him?

Goddamn, this song has always slain me, ever since first hearing it when the album came out. That main guitar lick that he does is heartrendingly beautiful and sad. It sounds like smiling eyes welling up with tears.

its exactly what I feel

This song hits my heart.

subbed. now we can be unknown brothers together.

That shit is crazy. I want to meet him. He seems to have the same general temperment and style as I do, oddly enough. 😂😂😂

I wonder what he is like. Although...I don't think he knows. I think his mom told him his dad is the guy...he was raised by...but apparently my dad and his mom cheated. smh.

I mean he's our height and his "dad" is short. So in order to tell him, I'd have to burst his bubble...
idk.

I dedicate this to Ben Micheal Walker. rest in peace brother

Tell me his story.

Though I never met you 
And we spoke not a word 
I'll never forget you 
Through stories that I've heard 
For you unknown brother 
My baby's mother is pained 
Cause your soul is in heaven 
But your memory remains

Unknown, unknown brother 
I'll meet you someday 
Unknown, unknown brother 
We'll walk through fields where children play

Your eyes shined bright 
When you were a kid 
Your sisters loved you 
And all that you did 
Big brother, big brother 
Don't worry a bit 
Your flame has not faded 
Since the day it was lit

Your life 
Was joy 
Your mama's 
Only boy 
And when the skies 
Are blue 
Big brother 
They're blue for you

We'll smile like pictures 
Of you as a boy 
Long before you retired 
To heavenly joy

Unknown, unknown brother 
I'll meet you someday 
Unknown, unknown brother 
We'll walk through fields where children play

R.I.P Shane, Love ya bro...

Always think of my grandfather who passed before I was born

Same here. Tech i was held as a baby by him. That's all i got by him

R.I.P
BILLY JACK SILVA BURIED HIM YESTERDAY... I WILL ALWAYS CARRY YOU CLOSE TO MY HEART BROTHER...

only we play unplayed games NIV

love this song and both of my brothers, Henry and Edwin.

Nice tune!!
Has a very sam cooke, 50s black soul sound to it.

Blues baby

this one's for you man! stay up, stay lifted

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My friends wife just had a miscarriage, I immediately thought of this song. So sad

Always think of my older brother who passed away from a bad Heroin addiction a year ago. The whole unknown brother part reminds me of the years and years that he wasnt himself from the drugs and that I feel I never really knew him in his last few years. RIP Chase

I'm sorry dude

You're so brave mate for being strong enough to talk about it xx

Drumstop969 kinda fitting in a way, Chase was chasing the dragon.

I have the exact same feeling from my older brother that passed the same way!! That's insane. My loss happened almost ten years ago and I still deeply miss his presence. My heart goes out to you man 💕💕

Always think about my older sister when listening to this

i love this song

My brother told me that he wrote this song for his brother-in-law who passed away and he never met him. Now him and his wife are divorced and he talks crap about her in the new album.

bull crap

cherrypie414 Are you saying your brother is Dan Auerbach!?!

this is golden

macc ladds influenced

This song reminds me of my bro mota, he passed away a week ago in a shoot out. He was a good friend, a funny person. He aways had a smile on his face no matter what. "Your soul is in heaven, but your memory remains" R.I.P Mota, stay up, stay lifted brother.

my condolences, man! it seemed like a very nice person...

By any chance around desert west skatepark?i remember some one with that name hit up (tagged) around at the park.if not sorry for buggn just random.r.i.p and respect

Manuel Mariscal for real bro? My Condelences. I’ve experienced something like this. But not in like a violent shoot out like your friend Mota. All Respect, stay lifted, Amen.

zombie ritual yes that was him. Small world man

zombie ritual in phx?