War Baby

Only the very young

And the very beautiful

Can be so aloof

Hanging out with the boys

All swagger and poise

I don't even care

What other people are there

I just stare and stare and stare

I see your shadow in the swimming pool

I see your face in the shaving mirror

Time and time and time again

I follow your footsteps

So quietly up the backstairs

And I hope and I pray

You're never going to find me there

Smooth skin and tenderness

Long ago on a dark night

Wish I could see you once again

Just to remember it was true

I want to be still beside you

Quiet and still beside you

Listening to your breathing

And feeling your warmth again

War baby - you were a

War baby - this means

War baby - I'm scared, so scared

Of whatever it is

You keep putting me through

I don't think I could stand

Another ten years of this fighting

All this stabbing and wounding

Only getting my own back

I don't want to batter you

To your feet and knees and elbows

When I'm kneeling like a candle

At the foot of my own bed

Corresponding disasters

Every night on the TV

Sickening reality keeps

Gripping me in its guts

All my friends talk and joke

And laugh about Armageddon

But like a nightmare it's still

Waiting there at

The end of every day

War baby - you were a

War baby - this means

War baby - I'm scared, so scared

Of whatever it is you keep putting me through

I don't think I could stand another

Ten years of this fighting

All this stabbing and wounding

Only getting my own back

But later that same evening

We were out in the car talking

When I suddenly wondered who the hell

It was we were trying to fool

Cause you were the

First one that I ever wanted

And it's you I come home to

At the end of every day

Like a mother-sucking baby

Demanding and so helpless

A little old balding man

All wrinkles and bulging eyes

War baby - you were a

War baby - well this means

War baby - I'm scared, so scared

Of whatever it is you keep putting me through