The Line of Fire

Child, you’ve been away. You’ve been out in the wild again.
Child, I guess you know they want you home.
Child, you come inside… come out of the cold and storm.
Child, you’re gonna wonder where your world has gone.

Time was you could run all day, discovering your own wide world.
No-one worried, no-one’d say,“Boy, you’re gonna sure get burned!”
A free-wheeler, you had the street, you had a load of time on your hands.
Things are different now, you’ve gotta keep away from the danger lands.

Under cover, all the day, of a watchful love…
Still you wonder… I hear you say, “Is it enough to keep me
Out of the line of fire, out of the line of fire,
Out of the line of fire, out of the line?”

Child, it’s over now.. the freedom, the easy deal.
Child, I guess you know it wasn’t real.
Child, you’d better learn any crazy man can buy a gun.
Child, the Iron Age has just begun.

Under cover, all the day, of a watchful love…
Still you wonder… I hear you say, “Is it enough?”
Still you wonder… I hear you say, “ Is it enough to keep me
Out of the line of fire, out of the line of fire,
Out of the line of fire, out of the line?”