Gun Shy

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

As far as you could go. By the 1/4 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 soldiers 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 song

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.

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 so good at making men.