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
Find more similar lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.com/AZZ9aim. 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.