The Ballad of Brother Pain Lyrics


Brother Pain, why did you go to Antartarctica?

The coldest place on earth is no place for a monk

Escaped your prison cell

Did you carve a key from an inmate's leg?

Why make escape in a stolen car?

Does your mum know where you are?

Brother Pain, why did you go to Antartarctica?

The coldest place on earth is no place for a monk

Brother Pain, why did you go to Antartarctica?

With open sandals and a tunic made of hemp

Snuck aboard a creaky ship

Did you pull the plug to make it sink?

In the cold and the barren and the wind that howls

Were you the one they saw in a hessian cowl?

Brother Pain, why did you go to Antartarctica?

The coldest place on earth is no place for a monk

Brother Pain, why did you go to Antartarctica?

With open sandals and a tunic made of hemp