War Baby

[Intro]

[Verse 1]
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 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

[Chorus]
War baby
War baby - Well, this means
War baby - I'm scared, so scared
Whatever it is you keep putting me through

[Verse 2]
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 by the candle at the foot of my own bed

Corresponding disasters every night on the TV
Sickening reality keeps gripping me with its guts
All 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...

[Chorus]
War baby - You are a
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

[Solos]

[Verse 3]
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 that 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 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
Oh, like a little old balding man, all wrinkles and bulging eyes

[Chorus]
War baby - You are a
War baby - Well, this means
War baby - I'm scared, so scared
Whatever it is you keep putting me through

[Verse 4]
So here we all are in the Kino der Jugend
On a cold, dark Friday night
Forgotten by the world outside
Out in the 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

[Outro]