She Looked Like Me!

Hello

Down the line, over the waves

Two kids and a military

Turn their tongue, change their name

La love, born to marry

Crossed their hearts, crossing the earth

One year, then a baby's carried

Grows up young, screams at graves

Bang-bang and it's customary

Ordinary

Hang the war over the hearth

Five more in a house of many

Argentine Fabergé

La love, born unsteady

Kid hears ghosts singing his name

Likes guns and he's pistol-ready!

That's his curse, that's my name!

He sings up to the moon unchaining!

I didn't know her when she walked in

But I recognized her eyes

Her hair lifted as she stood still

Right there in the light

AND SHE FELT LIKE A DREAM!

I didn't know what to think

SHE LOOKED LIKE ME!

We stood mirrored 'til I leaned in

And then you know what she did?

She shot at me like an earthbound bullet

And then she wrapped her hands around my neck and I felt love!

Just ordinary love

Let me hold you in my arms

Oh, love, that old familiar drug

Bang-bang and it's customary!

America stole my fate

La love and a baby carriage!

Turned my tongue, changed my name

Bang-bang, born unsteady!

Crossed my heart, crossed the earth

La love and a stone to carry!

That's my curse, that's my name

Bang-bang and it's customary!

Ordinary