Goji Brothers (Status Update II)

Now I lay me down to sleep
I'm lucky that my love is with me
A peaceful Sunday under glow of Netflix
When it hit me
That it's been about ten years
Since I shared a bunk with my brother
South Park episodes past eleven
While we made fun of each other
Every night I'd lead us both
In the prayers my parent taught us
For 6 years it was just us two
Until my parents had a daughter
From that point on we shared the space
In which we both became a man in
So it's weird that we don't live together no more to be quite candid
We're so different we are best friends
We are strangers we are shadows
In the years since dad passed we have had protracted battles
We've learned what we can and cannot handle but it always breaks my heart
When I think my little brother has just been through something hard
And that's ridiculous, I don't even worry about my mother and sister in quite the same way
He's an older kind of little brother always got on his game face
He's airborne with a BMX, it's crazy that I see him less
So invested in his life that I can't even take seeing him being stressed

And that's an update
Yeah that's my update
Status update

We develop pictures in our minds but no one's really static
Sometimes I think if I had other lives I wouldn't be an addict
I would be in bookish attics looking for an apparatus
That could grant us an advantage in battles for the planet's status
Stop the madness why are new young men round my way so directionless
And when did they stop treating life choices with any semblance of selectiveness
My regrets is that I couldn't spend more of my adolescence
Talking with siblings and cousins and sharing with them my lessons
They're impressive now that we've reached the other sides of our twenties
I just wish I'd been around more for them to take a moment from me
How arrogant of me, to think I was the fulcrum
But it's never been too late because I always could approach 'em
That's some hokum, the real truth is that they had words for teachin' me
I think I'm an okay writer, they remind me basic decency
So I'll just have to have faith that when my brother chases fate
He'll dedicate it to my folks to put a smile on their face, and that's an update

And that's an update
Yeah that's my update