Gun Shy Lyrics - Live In Concert - Natalie Merchant

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

As soon as and as far as you could go 

By the quarter 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' 

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 that they've made a decent boy of you 

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 

I don't mean to spoil your homecoming my baby brother Jude 

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 

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