Ry Cooder - "Brother Is Gone"

"The character-driven song is told from the perspective of Charles G. Koch as he joins his brother Dave to make a deal with the Devil, who promises to eventually 'take one of you down back to hell with me'" 

"Cooder's displeasure with the Republican Party and its financial supporters, particularly the Koch Brothers, also inspired his songwriting. He found the party to be 'insanely dangerous' to Barack Obama's presidency and the US, and said of them in an interview for The Guardian, 'in case anybody thinks Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin are clowns because they misspeak or don't know their history or they say silly things: that's just an act, and it's a useful act. Everything is a distraction from the core truths which are, first of all, that corporations have taken over the country'. He viewed that his songs for the album provide a more convenient alternative for citizens who do not research politicians, saying that 'I don't write books and give speeches but with a four-minute song you can use allegory and other means to suggest a different point of view. It's like looking around the corner, and that's what songs are good at sometimes. They hit you with a new thought – assuming that people will listen'". (aqui e aqui)

We met old Satan down where the two roads crossed
Just me and brother Dave by my side
It was in the prairie town of Wichita
We shook hands with Satan on a deal that night

You will be exalted in the evil works of men
High powered, rolling over land and sea
But some dark night I’ll be coming round again
And take one of you down back to Hell with me

Oil spills and cancer towns was our steppin’ stones
Immigration bills and foreclosure homes
States’ rights we proclaimed like in the good old Jim Crow days
Our highest aim was to take your vote away

Brother is gone
Brother is gone
Brother is gone
Little brother is gone
Brother is gone
When I woke up this morning, he was gone

His bed was made
And there’s his Bible, too
I wonder did he have time
To put on his travelin’ shoes

Brother is gone...

Old Satan, he’s a man of his word
Oh, brother is gone.