GUN SHY Natalie Merchant sings:
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<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 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,
you won't meet it with your gun.
So now, you are one, of the brave few, 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 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.
For I don't mean, to argue, 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 sound
when you see the stripes of, Old Glory waving?
Well 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,
you won't meet it with your gun taking aim.
Oh 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,
Oh 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. >
A few days have gone by.
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