Outside Over There

Outside over there Where the war was raging Run little child far from home the lord will take you with him verse 1 As mushrooms high as mountains Came from neptunes submarines A little girl named Ida Lived in a shack up by the sea Her daddy was away at war Her mother'd lost her mind So Ida in the arbour softly sang her lullaby To hush her baby sister and to calm her mother's shakes And by the waves a-crashing for her father she would wait verse 2 One evening Ida sang her songs soft as May breeze blows When a blinding flash of light came her eyes began to close Devil's in their hooded cloaks through the window climbed They took her sister from her crib and ran off into the night When Ida looked to check the crib when finally she arose, She saw a figure made of ice melting by the stove Outside over there Where the war was raging Run little child far from home the lord will take you with him verse 3 Ida put on her mother's coat and walked out to the cliffs, The sky was scarred with napalm the hills were drowned with mist She buried a rose in the ground and started up the road To find her sister in the night and safely bring her home There were soldiers in the twilight, thieves drinking by the caves She just listened out for her daddy's voice to come drifting across the waves verse 4 On the edge of Neptune's kingdom there was a forest and it was said, That any man that went in there was never seen again, But Ida clutched her mother's coat and pressed on through the trees, For in the ground she saw the tracks of wretched Devil's feet The path ahead grew fainter as the branches tied in knots And Ida felt like every step she took was being watched Outside over there Where the war was raging Run little child far from home the lord will take you with him Verse 5 There deep among the wild wood the girl began to tire When she came across a cabin windows flickered with a fire She knocked upon the wooden door an old man showed his face With kind eyes like her father's and a beard long and grey She saw her sister sleeping near two angels wearing hoods She had some supper then slept a while to dream about the woods. After three days passed the mist had cleared the sky was clear and bright, She took her sister in her arms and bid the man goodbye She ran back through the forest saw no soldiers nor no thieves, Till she found herself back up at the shack by the sea But when she flung her arms around her mother she shed tears For the woman stood before her was blind and aged by thirty years She said "Oh my darling Ida, my wait is at an end, As this rose bush grew I prayed each day that we would meet again", So they sat out in the evening and the sun shone all around Till early the next morning when their bodies were found. Outside over there Where the war was raging Run little child far from home the lord will take you with him