Ballydowse
Five fathoms down submission lies Its bones of coral made Too often Torquemadas lead The brightest to the grave The ideas of Christ are actions Take courage heart of mine And cease to idle fancy Step...
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(Chorus) Some days you tread the grass tipping the toe in awe. Some days you draw the sword, some nights you spit at the stars. We serve a God of grief and pleasure. We swim in passion and tears....
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(Chorus) There is land and there is sea you're the spot just between Where the walls grow the thinnest to the hidden majesty There is joy and there is grief, where they lap there is just belief And I...
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Another armchair economist playing our life into a mess, what you know about poverty you learned in a book. Think you're really qualified to mouth off and theorize about the fears you've never even...
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We cradle in our arms your terror, the soldiers that you fight. Disguised as our children, they starve. Behold your enemy. Ringed around the village of the brazen infidel As their eyes sink in, you...
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Closed my eyes by a violent river filled with thoughts that left me shiver longed for a land to be delivered where the young don't catch the ship fair voice ran cross my ears sadness drenched for many...
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i see a fire in the distance mother my love i see those rising flames are those the sabbath candles glowing no my love, but you will rest the same i haven't seen you since the separation i watched you...
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In the end the revolution veers and fades. Power corrupts, no future is built with tools of hate. The march, the cause just another sham. Everything rots in the hands of man. Comrades get slim and few...
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Open your ears and up a seat for the tale of the ballydowse. just what they are might well be you when the tell reaches your house between way past plenty and a need no one should know they were born...
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Like pirates off your shores of waste our kiss you can forget a newborn sense of smell and taste for things you've never met our nose no longer knows the heel of give it more and give it faster our...
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