In Any Tongue (Live from the Luck and Strange Concerts)

[Verse 1]

Home and done, it's just begun

His heart weighs more, more than it ever did before

What has he done? God help my son

Hey, stay a while, I'll stay up

No sugar is enough to bring sweetness to his cup

I know sorrow tastes the same on any tongue

[Chorus]

How was I to feel it

When a gun was in my hands

And I'd waited for so long?

How was I to see straight

In the dust and blinding sun

Just a pair of boots on the ground

[Verse 2]

On the screen the young men die

The children cry in the rubble of their lives

What has he done? God help my son

Hey, stay a while, I'll stay up

The volume pumped right up, but not enough to drown it out

I hear "Mama," sounds the same in any tongue

[Chorus]

How am I to see you

When my faith stands in the way

And the wailing is long done?

How am I to know you

With a joystick in my hand

When the call to arms has come?

[Guitar Solo]