Natalie Merchant Lyrics

Album: Live In Concert

Gun Shy Lyrics

Gun Shy

 I always knew that you would take yourself so far from home as soon as, 

and as far as you could go. By the 1/4 inch cut of your hair by 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 dried 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 that you won't meet it with your gun.

 So now you are one, one of the brave few, and it's 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." Well I knew, I could see, it was all 

cut and dried to me there was soldiers blue blood streaming inside your veins. 

There is a world outside of this room and when you meet it promise me that you 

won't meet it with your gun taking aim. For I don't mean to argue, that they've 

made a decent boy of you and I don't mean to spoil your home coming, but baby 

brother you should expect me to.

 "Stock and barrel, safety, trigger, here's your gun." So now does your 

heart pitter pat with a patriotic song when you see the stripes of Old Glory 

waving? For I knew, I could see, it was all cut and dried 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 that 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 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.