
Date of issue: 13.01.2013
Record label: Rhino Entertainment Company
Song language: English
Gun Shy |
I always knew that you would |
Take yourself far from home |
As soon as, as far as you could go |
By the quarter inch cut of your hair |
And the army issue green |
For the past eight weeks |
I can tell where you’ve been |
For, I knew, I could see, it was all cut and tied to me |
There was soldier’s blue blood streaming inside your veins |
There is a world outside of this room and |
When you meet it promise me |
You won’t meet it with your gun |
So now you are one of the brave few |
It’s so awful sad we need boys like you |
I hope the day never comes for |
«Here's your live round son |
Stock and barrel, safety, trigger, here’s your gun» |
For, I knew, I could see, it was all cut and tied to me |
There was soldier’s blue blood streaming inside your veins |
There is a world outside of this room and |
When you meet it promise me |
You won’t meet it with your gun taking aim |
I don’t mean to argue |
They’ve made a decent boy of you and |
I don’t mean to spoil your homecoming |
But, baby brother, you should expect me to |
«Stock and barrel, safety, trigger, here’s your gun» |
So now does your heart pit a pat |
With a patriotic sound |
When you see the stripes of old glory waving? |
For, I knew, I could see, it was all cut and tied to me |
There was soldier’s blue blood streaming inside your veins |
There is a world outside of this room and |
When you meet it promise me |
You won’t meet it with your gun |
I don’t mean to argue |
They’ve made a decent boy of you |
I don’t mean to spoil your homecoming, my baby brother Jude |
And I don’t mean to hurt you by saying this again |
They’re so good at making soldiers |
But they’re not as good |
At making men |
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