Men In A War Lyrics

Men In A War lyrics

Suzanne Vega

  

  Men in a war

  If they've lost a limb

  Still feel that limb

  As they did before

  

  He lay on a cot

  He was drenched in a sweat

  He was mute and staring

  But feeling the thing

  He had not

  

  I know how it is

  When something is gone

  A piece of your eyesight

  Or maybe your vision

  

  A corner of sense

  Goes blank on the screen

  A piece of the scan

  Gets filled in by hand

  

  You know that it was

  And now it is not

  So you just make do with

  Whatever you've got

  

  Men in a war

  If they've lost a limb

  Still feel that limb

  As they did before

  

  If your nerve is cut

  If you're kept on the stretch

  You don't feel your will

  You can't find your gut

  

  And she lay on her back

  She made sure she was hid

  She was mute and staring

  Not feeling the thing

  That she did

  

  I know how it is

  When something i

 A piece of your eyesight

  Or maybe your vision