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