Gun Shy
Natalie Merchant

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.


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Lyrics by Natalie Merchant

  (From) Both Sides Now   Adventures Of Isabel   After The Gold Rush   All I Want   Autumn Lullaby   Baby I Love You   Beloved Wife   Birds And Ships   Black Sheep   Bleezer's Ice-Cream   Bread And Circuses   Break Your Heart   Build A Levee   Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow   Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow Tree   But Not For Me   Calico Pie   Carnival   Children Go Where I Send Thee   Come Take A Trip In My Airship   Cowboy Romance   Crazy Man Michael   Crying, My Little One   Diver Boy   Down On Penny's Farm   Down On Penny's Farm   Dust Bowl   Effigy   Equestrienne   Frozen Charlotte   Generous   Giving Up Everything   Go Down Moses   Go Down, Moses   Golden Boy   Griselda   Gulf Of Araby   Henry Darger   House Carpenter   How You've Grown   How You've Grown   I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You   I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You   I May Know The Word   I Saw A Ship A-Sailing   I'm Not Gonna Beg   I'm Not Gonna Beg   If No One Ever Marries Me   In The Ghetto   Indian Names   It Makes A Change   It's A-Coming   Jealousy   Just Can't Last   Just Can't Last   Kind & Generous   Kind & Generous   Kind and Generous   King Of May   Ladybird   Last Goodbye   Life Is Sweet   Lullabye   Lulu   Maggie And Milly And Molly And May   Maggie Said   Motherland   My Skin   Not In This Life   Nursery Rhyme Of Innocence And Experience   Ode To Billy Joe   Old Gospel Melody   One Fine Day   Ophelia   Owensboro   Party Of God   Photograph   Poor Wayfaring Stranger   Put The Law On You   River   Saint Judas   Sally Ann   San Andreas Fault   Seven Deadly Sins   Seven Years   She Devil   She Devil (Outake)   Soldier Soldier   Soldier, Soldier   Son Of A Preacher Man   Space Oddity   Space Oddity (David Bowie cover)   Spring And Fall: To A Young Child   Sweet And A Lullaby   Sympathy For The Devil   Take A Look   Tell Yourself   Texas   The Blind Men and the Elephant   The Dancing Bear   The End   The Gulf Of Araby   The Land Of Nod   The Letter   The Living   The Lowlands Of Holland   The Man in the Wilderness   The Peppery Man   The Sleepy Giant   The Walloping Window Blind   The Worst Thing   Thick As Thieves   This House Is On Fire   Tigerlily   To Sir With Love   Topsyturvey-World   Vain And Careless   Weeping Pilgrim   When They Ring The Golden Bells   Where I Go   Which side are you on ?   Which Side Are You On?   Wonder

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