War Baby Lyrics - Ghosts - 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 gonna find me there 

Smooth skin and tenderness 

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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 

War baby 

War baby 

Well this means War baby 

I'm scared, so scared 

Whatever it is you keep putting me through 

Sounds like somebody's 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 by the candle 

Photos 

At the foot of my own bed 

Corresponding disasters 

Every night on the TV 

Sickening reality 

Keep crippling me with its guts 

Oh, my friends all talk and joke 

They laugh about Armageddon 

Like a nightmare it's still waiting there 

At the end of each and every day 

War baby 

You are the war baby 

Well this means War baby 

I'm scared, so scared 

Whatever it is you keep putting me through 

War baby 

You are a war baby 

Don't wanna live in another world 

War Baby 

I'm scared, so scared 

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 

Cause if it's really true 

And we're all in this together 

Well something's bound to give soon 

It sure as hell isn't gonna be me 

Cause you were the first one I ever wanted 

And it's you I come home to 

At the end of every day 

Like a mother-suckling baby 

So demanding and helpless 

Oh, like a little old balding man 

All wrinkles and bulging eyes 

War baby 

You are the war baby 

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 TV 

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