War Baby Songtext / Lyric

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






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



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