Gun shy lyrics

Artist  : Natalie merchant 
Song : Gun shy
 

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.