Gun Shy
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I always knew that you would take yourself so far from home as soon as,
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and as far as you could go. By the 1/4 inch cut of your hair by the Army issue
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green, for the past eight weeks I can tell where you've been. For I knew, I
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could see, it was all cut and dried to me there was soldier's blue blood
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streaming inside your veins. There is a world outside of this room and when you
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meet it promise me that you won't meet it with your gun.
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So now you are one, one of the brave few, and it's awful sad we need boys
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like you. I hope the day never comes for "Here's your live round son. Stock and
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barrel, safety, trigger, here's your gun." Well I knew, I could see, it was all
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cut and dried to me there was soldiers blue blood streaming inside your veins.
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There is a world outside of this room and when you meet it promise me that you
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won't meet it with your gun taking aim. For I don't mean to argue, that they've
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made a decent boy of you and I don't mean to spoil your home coming, but baby
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brother you should expect me to.
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"Stock and barrel, safety, trigger, here's your gun." So now does your
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heart pitter pat with a patriotic song when you see the stripes of Old Glory
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waving? For I knew, I could see, it was all cut and dried to me there was
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soldier's blue blood streaming inside your veins. There is a world outside of
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this room and when you meet it promise me that you won't meet it with your gun
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taking aim. I don't mean to argue, they've made a decent boy of you and I don't
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mean to spoil your homecoming my baby brother Jude and I don't mean to hurt you
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by saying this again, they're so good at making soldiers but they're not as
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good at making men.
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Gun Shy
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Natalie Merchant |