Where Is Your Gun, My Son

Where is Your Gun, My Son - 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