War Baby Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

 (A – 555555 A♯ – 666666 B – 777777 A* - 055777

Gmaj7 - 320002 G6 – 320000 Em – 0220000)

A A♯ B A G7M G6

G6 Em

[A Bb B]Only the very young and the very beautiful can be so aloof

[A*]Hanging out with the boys, all swagger and poise

G7MI don't even care G6what other people are G7MthereG6

 I just Emstare and stare and stare[A Bb B]

I see your shadow in the swimming pool

I see your [A*]face in the shaving mirror

Time and time and time again

G7MI follow your footG6steps so G7Mquietly up the backG6stairs

EmAnd I hope and I pray you're never going to find me Athere [Bb B]

Smooth skin and tenderness long ago on a dark night

Wish I could [A*]see you once again just to remember it was true

 I G7Mwant to be still beside G6you - G7Mquiet and still beside G6you

EmListening to your breathing and feeling your warmth again [A Bb B]

War baby [A*]- you were a

 War baby G7M- this G6means

 War baby - I'm Emscared, so scared

 Of whatever it is you keep Aputting me A♯through B

I don't think I could stand another ten years of this fighting

All this stabbing and wounding - only getting my own back

I don't want to batter you to your feet and knees and elbows

When I'm kneeling like a candle at the foot of my own bed

Corresponding disasters every night on the TV

Sickening reality keeps gripping me in its guts

All my friends talk and joke and laugh about Armageddon

But like a nightmare it's still waiting there at the end of every day

War baby... etc.

I don't think I could stand another ten years of this fighting

All this stabbing and wounding - only getting my own back

But later that same evening we were out in the car talking

When I suddenly wondered who the hell it was we were trying to fool

Cos 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, demanding and so helpless

A little old balding man, all wrinkles and bulging eyes

War baby... etc.