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Patience, give me some of that sweet patience, Lord,
I will keep my eye on my goal I take a few shlugs on the kisser I'm comin back at ya, ya know I'm gonna catch ya Cos you know I got no brakes It doesn't matter how long that it takes My luck I'm gonna make I take a few shlugs on the kisser I'm comin back wailin, big right sailin Cos ya know I got no brakes It doesn't matter how long that it takes My luck I'm gonna make Patience, give me some of that patience, Lord, I will keep my eye on my goal Patience, give me some of that sweet patience, Lord, I will keep my eye on the ball Well I've exchanged the spear and the sword For words and melody Oh what a felony How the record company pushes this McDonalds music An aural lobotomy For those who choose it Corporations pumpin all this money into pop To keep the real singers far away from the top So folks are never told what these corporations do Fuckin up the planet, exploiting me and you Well I take a few shlugs on the kisser I'm comin back at ya, ya know I'm gonna catch ya Cos you know I got no brakes It doesn't matter how long that it takes My luck I'm gonna make I take a few shlugs on the kisser I'm comin back wailin, big right sailin Cos ya know I got no brakes It doesn't matter how long that it takes My luck I'm gonna make Patience, give me some of that patience, Lord, I will keep my eye on my goal Patience, give me some of that sweet patience, Lord, I will keep my eye on the ball From my room in Donaghmede I'm 'bout to kick all your asses Stick your pink champagne and fuck your backstage passes A warrior comin down the mountain at ya A woodkern springin from the trees to catch ya, I'm lickin my wounds in the wilderness Prayin for the warmth of the sun's kiss My time will come Your race is run The throne's rightly mine You greedy swine. Well I take a few shlugs on the kisser I'm comin back at ya, ya know I'm gonna catch ya Cos you know I got no brakes It doesn't matter how long that it takes My luck I'm gonna make I take a few shlugs on the kisser I'm comin back wailin, big right sailin Cos ya know I got no brakes It doesn't matter how long that it takes My luck I'm gonna make. Patience, give me some of that patience, Lord, I will keep my eye on my goal Patience, give me some of that sweet patience, Lord, I will keep my eye on the ball Patience, give me some of that sweet patience, Lord, I will keep my eye on my goal , yeah Patience, give me some of that sweet patience, Lord, I will keep my eye on the ball |
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| 2. |
| 5:07 |
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Doing E, doing speed, doing cocaine
Mix it with alcohol and go insane In the morning the edge of the knife Where the hell is the bright side of life? It's a farcical high for a few hours Then you're blind and you can't see the bright flowers For the light of a child and the glee If you splurge then the law you'll agree Turns you into a shell of what you used to be All the weeks you're living in a fantasy Fantasise about the party to come Then your day-life just doesn't seem fun I'm not telling you how to do your thing I'm just laying down some facts about indulging How the shit going 'round can become Your controller, your dictator, your one I'm giving it up I swear in the New Year.. No more of that for me, you'll see... I'm going to be going straight I can't wait Until this year is gone, party on.. Coming down on the ground in a small house You're a man but you feel like a small mouse Not so long ago you felt like a king Someone give me psychiatrist a ring We'll have no bread and feel feckin' brain-dead All alone in a room full of E-heads Feel so hollow and sickingly and worthless There's no cure in the mosques or the churches I met strangers who barely six hours ago Were the best friends I thought I'd ever know Now they're strangers again 'cos I'm down And I won't say 'hello' if I see them in town |
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| 3. |
| 4:45 |
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Girl I've been hurt in the past, cut up
I find it hard to bring down my guard Hold me closely and softly sweetly kiss my lips, my lips Oh baby, baby, baby Hold me closely and softly sweetly kiss your lips, your lips It's been so long since I heard that song It always does remind me of us The last time that I saw you I shouted and I fought you That awful night we parted was when this nightmare started But now tonight I see you and Jesus how I miss you Oh baby, baby, baby Hold me closely and softly sweetly kiss my lips, my lips Oh baby, baby, baby Hold me closely, I softly sweetly kiss your lips, your lips |
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| 4. |
| 3:59 |
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Seize the day, hey, and look to Jah, sha la
There's work to do, tooraloo So, don't give in 'Cos some day you'll win Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh Seize the day, hey Sure you don't want no regrets when you look back Seize the day, hey Sure atleast you'll know, you gave this life a crack Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh Seize the day, hey, and look to Jah, sha la There's work to do, tooraloo So, don't give in 'Cos someday you'll win Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh Living every day, like it was my last C'mon, everyone Time, it goes so fast Living every day, like it was my last C'mon, everyone Time, it goes so fast Living every day, like it was my last C'mon, everyone Time, it goes so fast Living every day, like it was my last C'mon, everyone Time, it goes so fast, yeah |
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| 4:04 |
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Walkin' through the city
Was as lonely as could be I'm wanderin' in the night-time out in search of company I feel real isolation When all around me life Familiar but unfriendly Unfriendly with no choice And, I can see the evil But I can feel the good Shining out to greet me From within bone and blood I'm throwin' off this loneliness I can't stick it anymore Only need myself tonight to open up that door And I know that sometimes it gets so bad But you're not on your own so don't be sad 'Cos if you feel real bad then you're not on your own tonight Please don't be so sad 'cos you're not on your own tonight Oh yeah yeah yeah, You see I know the feelin' Don't have to tell me nothin' 'Cos you know I know the feeling Everybody seems to think it's they who bear the pain They who bear the biggest cross The loneliness and the shame Day to day you suffer when you're livin' in your past If you started livin' for the now you could free yourself at last If you started living for the now, for yourself and those around, Experience and celebrate the freedom that you've found You could free yourself forever, and live life as you should The choice is yours to take now 'cos I've said all that I could. But I know that sometimes it gets so bad But you're not on your own so don't be sad 'Cos if you feel real bad then you're not on your own tonight Please don't be so sad 'cos you're not on your own tonight Well if you feel real bad then you're not on your own tonight Please don't be so sad 'cos you're not on your own tonight Oh yeah yeah yeah, You see I know the feelin' Don't have to tell me nothin' You know I know the feeling Well if you feel real bad then you're not on your own Please don't be so sad 'cos you're not on your own Tonight... |
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| 6. |
| 5:09 |
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Flying o'er the sea
My guitar and me Forty thousand feet What a brilliant feat Go west, don't go east A famine or a feast We're treated better there A homeless one is rare I feel the city's lure The apple of my eye I cherish her Everybody's here From all across the earth Tongues and tribes galore There isn't any war I feel the city's lure The apple of my eye I cherish her I feel the city's lure The apple of my eye I cherish her New York, New York, I'm comin' New York, New York, I'm comin' New York, New York, I'm comin' New York, New York, I'm comin' |
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| 3:54 |
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Mary loves the grouse, hides the bottles round the house,
She watches chat shows and the soaps, broken-hearted but she copes, Michael's out of work, feels he's sinking in the murk, He's unshaven and a mess, finds it hard some days to dress Stevie smashes the delf, 'cos he can't express himself, He's consumed by rage, like his father at his age, Rita's little child, has a lovely little smile, This means nothing to her father, because he's never even seen her. We sing, sing all our cares away We'll live, to fight another day Joey's off the gear, he's been clean for half a year, He gets bored out of his mind, but he's tryin' to toe the line Maggie's in a chair, 'twas joyriding put her there, She puts the kettle on the boil, and she's always got a smile We sing, sing all our cares away We'll live, to fight another day We sing, sing all our cares away, We'll live, to love another day, We grow strong, from it all, We grow strong, or we fall, We grow strong, from it all, We grow strong, or we fall, We grow strong. |
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| 6:02 |
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Lord, Won't you give me the strength to be strong, and be true
Cos, Lord, when the devil gets into my head, I'm so blue You knock me, if you're so mighty, why waste your time with me If I'm bad, ignorant and sad Why waste your time, you're mad You're just mad, because your life is sad You've done nothing worth while Twist the knife Because you hate your life My life you want to spoil I'm never going to let Your negative vibes and comments Get through to my psyche and cripple me I'm never going to let Your negative vibes and comments Get through to my psyche and cripple me I never will forget The suffering that my people went through In my country and overseas Were no use, verbal abuse That's all you have to give You preach nil, you're so cynical Jesus, wake up and live Your bad vibe will drive away your tribe And where will you be then All alone Heart as cold as stone Hurting yourself again |
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| 5:34 |
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I missed a day or two of school, because I was called a fool
And beat around the place, because I was staring into space He stole a little bit of coal, because his flat was cold There's mountains of coal on the docks He took some and rain into the cops And now we're packed off to school Industrial school We'll learn the meaning of the word, meaning of the word And now we're locked up in school Industrial school We'll learn the meaning of the word cruel Tooralooraloo, Tooraloorali, Tooralooraloo, Whackfoldadi, Tooralooraloo, Tooraloorali, Tooralooraloo, Whackfoldadi My uncle was sent to Daingean My Granda to Letterfrack And the child that was locked up there Never did come back Some were raped and some were tortured Some beaten and abused, Frightened little children, so lonely and so confused Now the Irish have their stories and their music that's passed on From distant generations, who were kept down for so long But they also have the madness, child abuse and rage Sexual frustration passed down from another age Their language land and culture, their ancient pride was lost, And sexual repression was what religion cost. We have to break the cycle, cos it's still passed down boss We have to break the cycle before any more kids are lost |
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| 10. |
| 8:59 |
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I am an angry man yeah, I vent it when I can, yeah
On the bag, not the skag The negativity, yeah, pushed onto young paddy, yeah Is a shame, whose to blame? And when the baby cries, yeah, she has been criticised, yeah Been put down, it's passed down But it's all good, it's all good All I say to you today It's all good, sure it's all good All I say to you today And positivity, yeah, it is the way for me, yeah It is truth, it is youth They try to keep us down, yeah They hide the high kings crown, yeah From the Gaels, Kathleen wails And to survive their sting, yeah You have to be the king, yeah Grasp the wealth of yourself Love yourself today, ok, ok Love yourself today, ok, ok |
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| 6:04 |
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Factories, Trains and Houses, Playground of my youth
The place that left me mute I threw back my shoulders Factories, Trains and Houses The place that makes some strong And hurrys you along Some grow old very quick there No star ever played the cellar bar Glass and bottle fights We saw some crazy nights But then fights do excite you I'm awoken by a Handbrake turn outside I knew lads who died That sound chills me inside still Howth Junction could take you away And in the hayfields we'd squander the day And from the corner of Holywell road See the sunset over Saint Donaghs See the sunset over us all See the sunset over Saint Donaghs Some boys want to get me Because I hit one back I still can here the crack Of his head on the concrete Doin drugs and drinking Makes you so depressed And then you think you're blessed When you're dropping a tablet Troubled years and fighting Makes you sad you know And Mammy had to go Sure it's best in the long run Howth Junction could take you away And in the hayfields we'd squander the day And from the corner of Holywell road See the sunset over Saint Donaghs See the sunset over us all See the sunset over Saint Donaghs See the sunset over the world |
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| 12. |
| 7:31 |
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I sing the song of the colony
How many years and you're still not free And your mother cries and you ask god why Greed is the knife and the scars run deep How many races with much reason to weep And your children cry And you ask god why Annie, she came from Dunlavin Town The TB came and killed her family all around Population booms Eleven in two rooms Katie she came from down Townsend street Ten in a bed and no shoes on their feet 1916 came They played the patriots game Freddy, he came from the Iveagh flats Tenement slums and infested with rats Sleeping on damp straw Trying not to break the law Thomas, he came from Kilmaine in Mayo Semi starvation was the only life you'd know In a two room shack Then jailed in Letterfrack I look to the east, I look to the west To the north and the south, and I'm not too impressed Time after time After crime after crime They raped, robbed, pillaged, enslaved and murdered Jesus Christ was their god and they done it in his name So he could take the blame if it's not all a game With bible in one hand and a sword in the other They came to purify my land of my Gaelic Irish mothers And fathers, and sisters and brothers With our own ancient customs, laws, music, art Way of life and culture Tribal in structure We had a civilisation When they were still neanderthal nations We suffer with the Native American, the Indian in Asia Aboriginal Australia The African people with their history so deep And our children still weep and our lives are still cheap You came from Germany, from France, from England And from Spain From Belgium and from Portugal You all done much the same You took what was not yours Went against your own bible You broke your own laws Just to out do the rival But did you ever apologize For the hundreds and millions of lives You destroyed and terrorised Or have you never realized Did you never feel shame For what was done in your country's name And find out who's to blame and why they were so inhumane And still they teach you in your school About those glorious days of rule And how it's your destiny to be Superior to me But if you've any kind of mind You'll see that all human kind Are the children of this earth And your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free Inside our minds we hold, hold the key |
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