1.Requiem For A Dying Song
There's a government whip
Cracked across your back
Where the order of the day
Is don't listen attack
See the blood run down
In your bushwacked town
Revolution is the gimmick
Of a jokerless clown
Another volley's
just the ammo
For the tax man's gun
Talk, don't talk if
you've nothin' to say
Walk, don't walk if your
feet don't know the way
In requiem for a dying song
Feel the shimmy
and the shank
From a futile war
With the sun that
lights the day
Brings the darkness
and the prize
Of another great shame
But with you my love,
with you my love
With you I will return
In requiem for a dying song
Grab the barrel by the face
Shoot the order, release
Shove the bullet
in your pocket
Turn away and retreat
See the terror in the eye
Of a bloodshot child
Only ruble in his belly
And the promise of lies
Operation Liberation,
tell me you can decide
Talk don't talk if
you've nothing to say
Walk don't walk if your
feet don't know the way
In requiem for a dying song
Feel the shimmy
and the shank
From a futile war
With the sun that
lights the day
Brings the darkness
and the prize
Of another great shame
But with you my love,
with you my love
With you I will return
In requiem for a dying song
Agony from every corner
On every street
Ignite their loss of self
With their bitterness...
explode...explode
There's a government whip
Cracked across your back
Where the order of the day
Is don't listen attack
Talk don't talk if you've
nothing to say
Walk don't walk if your
feet don't know the way
In requiem for a dying song
Feel the shimmy
and the shank
From a futile war
With the sun that
lights the day
Brings the darkness
and the prize
Of another great shame
But with you my love,
with you my love
With you I will return
In requiem for a dying song
With you my love
With you I will return
In requiem for a dying song
2.Paddy's Lament
Wipe the blood from your lip
With the flesh of your hand
There's no thorn in the side
left to grow
So lets cherrish the names
that we lost for an age
With the rue now
the supper must go
Where traditions they blend
lives a home on the mend
The grass glistens now
for alls eyes
So lets sever the shame
we have come to reclaim
With the waters retreat
feel the shore for us
Woth the red rose
pales lay a
thousand graves many more
Where the ghost
still haunt for the
day we come to the fore
Don't look back
For what's dead now is safe
The exiled, a home
where the soul kept safe
Take me back on
the crest of a wave
No more tears for you
paddy's lament
No more tears
No more paddy's Lament
Rip the dreet from his heart
There's no sorrow tonight
For onc bannished
dreams sleep devine
Where the silence
you hear is
the prosper we shared
The only blade is
a razor sharp smile
Still the church
bell rings the
colective sings
that still roam
But the only thing
left is the
pain of nothing once more
Don't look back
For what's dead now is safe
The exiled, a home
where the soul kept safe
Take me back on
the crest of a wave
No more tears for
you paddy's lament
No more tears
No more paddy's Lament
Grab the leaf of
the branch from
the tree in the ground
Where the roots claimed
the earth many tioled
To a land that now stands
under no-ones command
And her beauty let
no man destroy
So rember the gun and
the damage it's done
The last drop as been
silled for you and I
Let there be no desperre for
the rule we once shared
Brush the tear from the eye
that still shines
Where the red rose pales lay
a thousand graves many more
Where the ghost still haunt
for the day we
come to the fore
Don't look back
For what's dead now is safe
The exiled, a home
where the soul kept safe
Take me back on
the crest of a wave
No more tears for
you paddy's lament
Don't look back
For what's dead now is safe
The exiled, a home
where the soul kept safe
Take me back on the
crest of a wave
No more tears for
you paddy's lament
No more tears
No more paddy's Lament
No more tears
No more paddy's Lament
3.Float
Drank away the
rest of the day,
Wonder what my liver'd say,
Drink, That's all you can.
Blackened days with
their bigger gales,
Blow in your parlor
to discuss the day,
Listen, That's all you can.
Ah but don't,
no don't sink the boat,
That you built,
you built to keep afloat,
Ah no don't,
no don't sink the boat,
That you built...
Sick and tired of
what to say,
No one listens anyway,
Sing, That's all you can.
Rambling years of lousy luck
Ya miss the smell
of burning turf,
Dream, That's all you can.
Ah but don't,
no don't sink the boat,
That you built,
you built to keep afloat,
Ah no don't,
no don't sink the boat,
That you built... that you
built to keep afloat.
Singled out for who you are
It takes all types
to judge a man,
Feel, That's all you can.
Filthy suits with
biggot ears,
Hide behind their
own worst fears,
Live, That's all you can.
It's all you can
It's all you can... do.
No matter where
I put my head,
I wake up feeling
sound again,
Breathe, It's all you can.
Tomorrow smells of
a less decay,
The flowers keep
this bloomin' fray,
Be Thankful,
That's all you can.
Ah but don't,
don't sink the boat,
That you built,
you built to keep afloat,
Ah no don't,
no don't sink the boat,
That you built... you
built to keep afloat.
Ah no don't,
no don't sink the boat,
That you built, that you
built to keep afloat.
A ripe old age,
A ripe old age,
I'm a ripe old age,
That's what I am.
I'm a ripe old age,
A ripe old age,
A ripe old age,
Just doin' the best I can.
A ripe old age,
A ripe old age,
A ripe old age,
That's what I am.
A ripe old age,
A ripe old age,
A ripe old age,
Just doin' the best I can.
The best I can.
4.You Won't Make A Fool Out Of Me
Rank these woods
Where lost ispiration
Ain't that a barrel
full of laughs
Wipe you arse of the
crumbs on the table
Where they fall hungry
on your land
Whatever became of the seed
that once grew in your hand
And the darts
where you fingers did
bleed and the rush
to your head
Oh ya won't no no you
won't make a fool outa me
Worse things break that
are made of elastic
And I'm no puppet
on your show
You won't sing when
the singer is songless
Another notch in
your fat belt
But green is the heart
of your greed
That much I can tell
you may think you're
the captain of me
But I'm your coffinship
from hell
And ya won't no no
no ya won't, ya won't
make a fool outa me
Won't no no no ya won't,
ya won't make a fool outa me
So I'll drag theese bones
across the edge
With the dead
I'll never sleep
Where I'll haunt ya
for a thousabd years
Without breath you'll
never breath
For an emty shell your
grave will a lost
for ever more
And ya won't no no no
ya won't, ya won't
make a fool outa
Wipe that hand that
fed you for nothing
Get that monkey of your back
Empty lies and
bold celebrations thas
not the meaning of successs
But green is the harsh
of your greed that
much I can tell
And ya won't no no no ya
won't make a fool outa me
I says ya won't no no no ya
won't make a fool outa me
I says ya won't no no no ya
won't make a fool outa me
5.Lightning Storm
This loney exsistence
may use the way
For the hard of hearts
must beat be brave
While this quite
lightning storm
Wreaks the harvest gold we
try to sow So it begins
The way the light
still dances beneath
the skin there the messenger
from hell since were
bound to win
As the days do come
but the years do go
So take care of your
freedom you'll never know
I sit on the wing
for a blackbird song
To tell me were and
when this all went wrong
There's no resolution
without remorse
Ignorence blist ye fin
let state of course
Puncture the skin
and see his blood run
cold on desert sand
Come hear the meant for
mothers with childless hands
As the days do come
but the years do go
So take care of your freedom
you'll never know
Take good care of your
freedom you'll never know
Take what you give until
there's nothing left
but everlive
And night this is on
shadows and after kill
As the days do come
and the years do go
So take care of your freedom
you'll never know
Yeah take good care of your
freedom you'll never know
The days do come
but the years do go
So take care of you freedom
you'll never know
6.Punch Drunk Grinning Soul
It took me everything I had
To give all that I could
Walk beside me while I sleep
Steer me from
the slumber wolf
Tangled forest of the mind
Speaks to me of self-despise
Close the window
through the pane
Hear the siren's serenade
Could have been
the comeback kid
The southpaws' legend
glove to fill
No shadow boxer but the one
A true contender
for the crown
Now this punch
drunk grinning soul
In its' corner begs no more
Hey now, stay proud
You were lost on a blue day
Hey now, stay proud
Hey now, stay proud
you were lost on a blue day
Hey now, stay proud
But we hardly knew ya
The chamber echo
never speaks
The rushin' tide
devours my feet
No global warming
fills this soul
For hell it freezes
what it stole
From the beggar's
empty plate
To our world that
stuffs its' face
Hey now, stay proud
You were lost on a blue day
Hey now, stay proud
Hey now, stay proud
you were lost on a blue day
Hey now, stay proud
But we hardly knew ya
But these tired eyes are
crashin' down on me
While the paint never dries
On these four walls that
now suffocate me
But tonight, maybe tonight
All will be free
Release, unlock
this prison door
It can't hold me anymore
Serpent lied with
sting of tale
Hand of reason
rusts the nail
Now this punch drunk
grinning soul
In its' corner begs no more
Hey now, stay proud
You were lost on a blue day
Hey now, stay proud
Hey now, stay proud
you were lost on a blue day
Hey now, stay proud
But we hardly knew ya
7.Us Of Lesser Gods
There's a breeze that's
blowin' in from the land
Instead of salt air all we
breathe in is sand
Crippled the cloud that
once brought the rain
Good job now we'll never
see our coasts again
But those of us, those of us
Us of lesser gods
Won't eat till we're hungry
Won't drink till
we're parched
But those of us, those of us
Who forget where we're from
Create now this hell where
no devil could spawn
Take me back, take me back
To the way life used to be
A whisper's now sayin'
What words used to speak
Starve must the child,
hungry sex on tv
For no act of contrition
Will pardon the soul
The damage now glistens
See how it glows
But those of us, those of us
Us of lesser gods
Won't eat till we're hungry
Won't drink till
we're parched
But those of us, those of us
Who forget where we're from
Create now this hell where
no devil could spawn
Take me back, take me back
To the way life used to be
Yesterday is better
that it is today
And today will be better
than tomorrow they say
We don't want what you know
But we know what we want
That's live and let live
We're all different
that counts
But those of us, those of us
Us of lesser gods
Won't eat till we're hungry
Won't drink till
we're parched
But those of us, those of us
Who forget where we're from
Create now this hell where
no devil could spawn
Dark is the shallow man
Proud without pride
Worn out comes the welcome
From a truth that
never lies
Weep now for the tear
Cold on the face
So come down from
your heaven lord
Let me show you
hell on earth
Take me back
To the way life's
never been
8.Between A Man And A Woman
Between a man and a woman
Life begins again
Between love and confusion
Lies only pain
Take my world,
Feed my soul, Shake my
prayer, Don't ever let go
Give me the sun,
The moon above,
The stars should fall, The
heaven knows
Between a man and a woman
It's everything or
nothing at all
Everything or nothing at all
Is there a rhyme or a reason
They just ain't the same
You tell me I'll half crazy
But you're real sane
Take my world,
Feed my soul, Shake my
prayer, Don't ever let go
Give me the sun,
The moon above,
The stars should fall,
The heaven knows
Between a man and a woman
It's everything or
nothing at all
Everything or nothing at all
She said love me
like you did
You did before
She said love me
like you did
You did once more
Between a man and a woman
It's everything or
nothing at all
Everything or nothing at all
Take my world,
Feed my soul, Shake my
prayer, Don't ever let go
Give me the sun,
The moon above,
The stars should fall, The
heaven knows
Take my world,
Feed my soul, Shake my
prayer, Don't ever let go
Give me the sun,
The moon above,
The stars should fall, The
heaven knows
Between a man and a woman
It's everything or
nothing at all
Everything or nothing at all
Everything or nothing at all
9.On The Back Of A Broken Dream
As your soul drifts
on the plate
To the floor where
she is standing
Rising by the fire
From the torch
you were burning
Many years but many tears
And many more will
soon be arriving
But I drink this final drop
To enter your front door
Gone are the days
When I poured from the rain
Where once once
marched a man
Going down life's drain
Oh in time in time
you will see
Just what you mean to me
For I have met
an angel clip my wings
Come back young volunteer
For your war now it is over
Lay down your blackened gun
Not another bad word spoken
Come tell of all you've seen
To the soul you're
no longer killing
And rest your weary voice
The last battle
song has cried
Gone are the days
When I poured from the rain
Where once once
marched a man
Going down life's drain
Oh in time in time
you will see
Just what you mean to me
For I have met an angel
clip my wings
Oh an angel clipped my wings
From the back of
a broken dream
So they'll probably never
break my fall again
For I return to
sing this tune
From the back of
a broken dream
Time wont hurry back
Time wont stall
Time to forget the past
Brush the cobwebs
from the wall
Oh for I survived to
sing this tune
From the back of
a broken dream
For an angel
clipped my wings
From the back of
a broken dream
So they'll probably never
break my fall again
For I return to
sing this tune
From the back of
a broken dream
For I return to
sing this tune
From the back of
a broken dream
10.Man With No Country
Picture an ending
before it's begun
The art of forgiveness is
not what we're taught
Reek of the havoc
already made
The cradle was damaged,
ug by the grave
Where you lie in the sin,
for mortal's the soul
Forgive me this father
before I go cold
From burden of grief
nd all I regret
Spare me the conscience
before I forget
For once in this life
I better do something right
But i'm caught in a world
that won't stop burnin'
That won't stop burnin'
Jump through the arms
with a mindless desire
Hand in your pocket,
urnt by the fire
Cold as the stone you
threw at the wall
Blood never boils till
the pressure is high
With despise of the fear
that festers the growth
The truth always beckons
Don't lose what you stole
For once in this life
I better do something right
Don't bury the voice
that's not yet spoken
I'll challenge the flames
Till this man with
no country remains
Still caught in a world
that won't stop burnin'
Right or wrong,
this is where I belong
I've always belonged
If the truth be known,
there's no place left to go
No place I can go
But there is a light
There's still a spark
There is no place in
this room for the dark
So scatter the bones
that's left of the old
For dust only settles
when bored
Settles when bored
For once in this life
I better do something right
Don't bury the voice
that's not yet spoken
I'll challenge the flames
Till this man with
no country remains
Still caught in a world
that won't stop burnin'
Won't stop burnin'
Won't stop burnin'
11.The Story So Far
You always had
what you wanted
So leave it behind
And if the glass
isn't broken
Then the future's not blind
All that you know means
nothing to you
But it's the loss of control
that shatters the truth
Here's the story so far
It's already here
We've made it this far
Through the
daggered-edged spears
But life cuts to pieces
Till the wounds
hold no secrets
Makes it all who you are
Love craves
self destruction
It's a blizzard in hand
You lay your cards
on the table
But you're not in command
So burn with the fire
You so eagerly lit
Watch the flames
flicker higher
Said I don't care about me
Here's the story so far
It's already here
We've made it this far
Through the
daggered-edged spears
But life cuts to pieces
Till the wounds
hold no secrets
Makes it all who you are
Though it's bitter the pill
That you swallow to feel
I don't care what I lost
I just thank god I'm alive
Makes it all who you are x5
That's the story so far
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