Brother 52
Doc: "Tattoo Shop"
Fish: "Hi Doc"
Doc: "Hey Fish, what are you doin'?"
Fish: "If you don't mind, we're gonna record this. Is that cool?"
Doc: "Oh that's cooler 'n hell. Hell yeah, 52's biggest dream man
You know his biggest dream was, me and him go party with you."
On the trail of torn-out twisters, two angels on a mission came
Dust devils danced before them in the path of the hurricane
On the road to Oklahoma, through the flatlands from L.A
From the shadows in the valley, from a country where the lizards play
While they drove they kept the radio on, why don't you singalong, singalong, singalong
(Chorus:) Tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo Brother 52
Tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo Brother 52
I don't think so
A man stands behind his shadow, a man stands behind his words
These men are together with family to defend their rights in another man's world
Most people stood against them, most people disagreed
With the need for all those weapons in our safe, secure society
Paint the words and the pictures on another man's skin
We are lovers, warriors, magician kings
(Chorus)
Doc:"Fuckin' brilliant, man. OK, here's what happened. 52 barred the door shut from the inside. A gunfight started on the front porch. 52 shot back. You know...they come into his home with it, so he's protecting himself. The guy inside the house blew his brains out. Yeah, they made it look like he killed himself. But, no one believes he would, 'cause he's not that kind of man. That's all, I think, he wasn't afraid of death. You know, he believed in something he'd've died for it, that's what he did."
Some say he had it coming, others say he was sole to blame
But who says they've got the rights if any at all to blow the brothers away
A man got a right to wonder, a man got a right to dream
Without looking over his shoulder to choose the manner of the life he leads
One man's thoughts on another man's skin
We are lover, warrior, magician kings
(Chorus)
Doc: "What they have done, was they've come in and murdered him, for his firearms and his ammunition. Just like that Waco Texas or any of these other things, over here in the United States. Anybody that's stockpiling firearms and ammunitions is a threat to the government, so the government wages war against us. They tortured him, he went out but I'm sure he stood up like he was supposed to, you know? They smashed all the rings shut on his fingers with a hammer. It was all an orchestrated plan, man. The more.. the closer I was getting to it.. to the truth, the more they got everybody looking at me as being the guy that pulled the trigger. And what they did when they killed 52, is they broke the whole family up
That's exactly what they wanted to do
They wanted to break all of us up."