Where Is Your Gun, My Son Songtext
von Beau

And I knew you when you were young and waving wildly from the train
Shouting loud your long farewell should you not return again
And true, you never did come home and Mama said you′d never dare
I didn't know you were alive, and now I see you standing there

It takes so much to kill a man, especially a man like you
You′d never be the one to die unless you had a reason to
And here we two are both the same, but bitterness is creeping in
I couldn't let that happen now, it wouldn't do to let you win


You′re older now but looking well, better now than you deserve
Whatever was it brought you here behind the wire of our reserve?
I tell you, here the winter′s cold, but colder still for those like me
It's useless trying to get away when there are wolves among the trees

Your back′s a straighter one than mine, I've lived this way for thirty years
Your Mama wept so early on, she couldn′t see the sky for tears
But finally the tears ran dry and then we both forgot your name
Until you came in through that door and I can see you once again

And now the circle is complete, you join the ranks that you betrayed
The early years are always bad and those are ones you won't evade
For those who live, remember well the ones who wore the crimson star
When you believed you were like them, and then they found out what you are

Where is your gun, my son? Where is your gun?
Where is your gun, my son? Where is your gun?
Where is your gun, my son? Where is your gun?