War Baby - Big Wreck

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

When 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 that it was true

I want to be still beside you

Quiet and still beside you

Just listening to your breathing

And feeling your warmth again

Ooh, war baby

Ooh, war baby

Well this means

War baby

I’m scared, so scared

Whatever it is

You keep putting me through

Sounds like somebody

Is out there in the night

Might just be the voice

Of someone I once knew

Hear me, father and mother

If I should cry out loud

As I’m kneeling to light 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 they laugh about Armageddon

Like a nightmare

It’s still waiting there

At the end of each and every day

Ooh, war baby

Ooh, you are the war baby

Well this means

War baby

I’m scared, so scared

Whatever it is

You keep putting me through

Ooh, war baby

Ooh, you are a war baby

Ooh, war baby

(Don't wanna live in another world)

I’m scared, so scared

Whatever it is

You keep putting me through

-Solos-

I don’t think I could stand

Another 10 years of this fighting

All this stabbing and wounding

Only getting my own back

Cause if it’s really true

And we’re all in this together

Well something’s bound give soon

It sure as hell isn’t gonna be me

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

So demanding and helpless

Like a little old balding man

All wrinkles and bulging eyes

Ooh, war baby

Ooh, you are the war baby

Ooh, well this means

War baby

I’m scared, so scared

Whatever it is

You keep putting me through

So here we all are

In the Kino der Jugend

On a cold, dark Friday night

Forgotten by the world outside

Out in their houses

People finish their dinner

And watch t.

v

Get ready for bed

And dream about the weekend

But you and me

We were so, so alone

In the middle of a crowded room