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, saftey, 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 yourhome coming, but baby brother 

you should expect me to. 

"Stock and barrel, saftey, trigger, here's your gun." So now 

does your heart pitter pat with a patriotic sond 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 toh urt you by 

saying this again, they're so good at making soldiers but they're not 

so good at making men.


Eager to please was just the way that he was 

though his attempts there falling short, 

expectation 

see he would tell of all his conquests, 

was he bragging? 

but in the evening all alone 

Ellen unplanned delays 

saving for someone who really cared about you 

invincible they say 

married to your name 

she was the kind between a child and a lady, 

quick was her temper 

like a blaez from an ember 

no one had measured to her standard, 

so in the evening all alone all alone 

how do I tell them to open their minds 

and to take a chance 

maybe on finding life’s treasure stubborn they stay set 

in their ways really not wanting to be lonely not alone.