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Whiskey On A Sunday

by Flogging Molly

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1.
Laura 04:15
This next song is about a young lady called Laura Who unfortunately isn't with us anymore But she's still called Laura ...Here we go... Feel the words from my lips To your harsh finger tips Then you know where I come from Cause I know, yes I know Everything there is to know Cause I lost everything I had You see I, I could have danced on the sun But my world came undone (Laura) Laura! There's no need for tears Cause there's no need to cry The love that you leave Will never be left behind This pain in my head comes straight from my heart No woman alive could touch who you were So bye, bye Laura There's no one could take your place Bye, bye Laura Your beauty will never fade The seed that you sewn Now reaches for the sky The song that you leave Will never beat at night And after this song, her spirit lives on Though you’re not around you'll never be gone So bye, bye Laura Cause no one can take your place Bye, bye Laura Your beauty will never fade But I... I could have danced on the sun But my world came undone Laura Yeah, I... I could have danced on the sun But my world came undone So, bye bye Laura Yeah, bye bye Laura This pain in my head comes straight from my heart No woman alive could touch who you were So bye, bye Laura There's no one could take your place Your beauty will never fade So bye, bye Laura There's no one could take your place Bye, bye Laura Your beauty will never fade Fade! Yeah!
2.
Must it take a life for hateful eyes To glisten once again Five hundred years like Gelignite Have blown us all to hell What savior rests while on his cross we die Forgotten freedom burns Has the Shepard led his lambs astray to the bigot and the gun Must it take a life for hateful eyes To glisten once again Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess Singin' drunken lullabies I watch and stare as Rosin`s eyes Turn a darker shade of red And the bullet with this sniper lie In their bloody gutless cell Must we starve on crumbs from long ago Through these bars of men made steel Is it a great or little thing we fought Knelt the conscience blessed to kill Must it take a life for hateful eyes To glisten once again Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess Singin' drunken lullabies Ah, but maybe it`s the way you were taught Or maybe it`s the way we fought But a smile never grins without tears to begin For each kiss is a cry we all lost Though there is nothing left to gain But for the banshee that stole the grave Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess Singin' drunken lullabies I sit in and dwell on faces past Like memories seem to fade No colour left but black and white And soon will all turn grey But may these shadows rise to walk again With lessons truly learnt When the blossom flowers in each our hearts Shall beat a new found flame Must it take a life for hateful eyes To glisten once again Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess Singin' drunken lullabies Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess Singin' drunken lullabies Singin' drunken lullabies
3.
[Chorus] Do you still walk the streets at night? With the wanderlust you fight Back to the corner where we went our separate ways Well I'd love to photograph your hand Then shake it for a while Cause you learn so much about someone A brother or a swine The veins that plough beneath your path With so many tales to tell A picture out of focus In a frame where no one cares Calm the ocean breeze Quiet the raging sea This stormy ship we sail Is a bottle filled with rage [Chorus] Well we walked upon the railroad Cause the train no longer ran Where we caught a glimpse of all we missed From the stars that filled our eyes With a dollar in your only coat And a fireball in your hand You set your sails for better days Down in South Australia Dark though it has been Your old spirit still shines within These last thirteen years depraved Of us anything that's worth sayin' [Chorus] So raise a cheer to those forgotten years Back to the corner where we went our separate ways Now the carnival is goin' home The ferris wheel is spent For those rovin' years of endless jeers Have dried all that was left Calm the ocean breeze Quiet the raging sea This stormy ship we sail Is a bottle filled with rage [Chorus]
4.
T’was in the early evenin` Near the presence of the moon You told me you would meet me here Well now is not too soon This dagger twisting in my back Tells me I never should Have trusted everything to fall From beggar to fool I see your face like every race A serpent with two arms Devouring me while rains the sun With dreams in foreign lands This cold dark tormented hell Is all I’ll ever know So when you get to heaven May the devil be the judge With another bag of bricks I scratch your name across these walls And with my blood turns red Then drips upon my killing floor Where I now call my bed No precious light to harbor Like so many here before Now breathes a thousand more With another bag of bricks Temper filled with blindness Leads this lost and lonely man Dragged around your whipping tree A scourge you can’t command So deafen me with silence Drown me with your roar Scowl me with your hollow eyes Still burnin` to the core No door will go unanswered Like so many closed before No vagabond to knock upon This tired and beatin` war When all return to exile Free from all once bound Decline and brawl old parasites The truth will yet be found With another bag of bricks With another bag of bricks With another bag of bricks This cold dark tormented hell Is all I`ll ever know So when you get to heaven May the devil be your judge Temper filled with blindness Leads this lost and lonely man Dragged around your whipping tree A scourge you can’t command So deafen me with silence Drown me with your roar Scowl me with your hollow eyes Still burnin` to the core No door will go unanswered Like so many closed before No vagabond to knock upon This tired and beatin` war When all return to exile Free from all once bound Decline and brawl old parasites The truth will yet be found With another bag of bricks With another bag of bricks With another bag of bricks With another bag of bricks
5.
You, you never looked so good Sipping life down like I wish I could But these sober tears are all that's left to shed Sank his soul now made of lead Face down beneath the rubble lies a man Tales of the future already in the past And of himself, well he hasn't much to say But wake the Gods, it's Judgement day He said, "I left my home where the dead never rose But the streets of gold I’ve yet to find And at the end of the day all you can do is pray Without hope well you might as well be blind, yeah be blind Tomorrow comes a day too soon, tomorrow comes a day too soon" Angel, sweet angel of my youth Where have you gone? You flew away too soon The brick I built now builds a higher wall See it crumble, hear me fall There hangs the fool, who once had it all He said, "I left my home where the dead never rose But the streets of gold I’ve yet to find And at the end of the day all you can do is pray Without hope well you might as well be blind, yeah be blind Tomorrow comes a day too soon, tomorrow comes a day too soon" And though the road has yet to rise On these hundred years that passed me by And the blood with the river flows Through the crimson field never sewn And no never sewn He said, "I left my home where the dead never rose But the streets of gold I’ve yet to find And at the end of the day all you can do is pray Without hope well you might as well be blind, yeah be blind Tomorrow comes a day too soon, tomorrow comes a day too soon Tomorrow comes a day too soon, tomorrow comes a day too soon" Ah well you, you never looked so good
6.
Here's to you, I sing for my daddy-o As I lay him down to sleep It's been so long, since I lost my daddy-o Hope he's watchin' over me Wednesday night is mornin' now As I'm walkin' in the rain The birds are screaming in my ear Drivin' me insane Half the clouds are empty So the sun burst through the sky The puddles show reflection Of a face about to die Just around the corner, I was goin' round the bend I ran into a staggerin' fool Who said he knew my name He poured himself a whiskey And his face began to glow Two men without an answer Like a dog without a bone Bringin' in the new year As the bells began to ring Fats is in the corner, she's just about to sing Time to get another, before the final shout You should have heard them roarin' When they dragged the bugger out And we'll never see the likes of you again Jimbo came from slummin' town A cold and dreary place To summerland he found himself The sun shun on his face Met a girl called Minnie Pearl Swore she'd always be his girl Happy ever after, till the tide ran out again Pour me all your sorrows And I'll drink till you are dry I'll love you in the mornin' Christ, I'll love ya till you die I'll never leave so never grieve I'll be back before ya know But Jimbo fell into a well And never rambled home Carried all his troubles in an unforgivin' bag Back and forth through painted brick The colours all seemed bland I've traveled all these years, he said To only get this far, so he crossed the street Found a seat, his home is now a bar And we'll never see the likes of you again No we'll never see the likes of you again There must be more to life, than this poxie life All the agro, all the pain So he disappeared into his final beer But the glass was empty, once again, again, again Woke up in an awful state Dreamt I was at Peter's Gate Beggin' for his mercy And the crimes that were at hand He told me he was much amused To see this life I had abused Best be on your way, but have a swig before you go So I'm bringing in the New Year As the bells began to ring Fat's in the corner, she's just about to sing Time to get another, before the final shout You should have heard them roarin' When they dragged the bugger out And we'll never see the likes of you again No we'll never see the likes of you again No we'll never see the likes of you again
7.
Don't know where I'm goin', Don't know where I'm goin', yeah Don't know where I'm goin', Don't know where I'm goin', yeah
8.
I want to believe in myself once again So I dream of a man whose hopes never end To kiss with a girl who's as lovely as you I'd give you my heart, if you gave me the truth And for every tear that is lost from an eye I'd dig me a well where no man could destroy I want to believe in a freedom that's bold But all I remember is the freedom of old Well I lost me a wife, so I found me a plane Flew all the way to California This mess in my head is a mess getting out Ya drink too much coffee, I drink too much stout But after a while, when my mouth's not so dry I'll dance up a storm, sure life's looking fine But as darkness falls, I return to my bed Don't ask me more questions, don't fuck with my head I've been down in this world, down and almost broken Like thousands of people, left standing in their shoe I've been down in this world, down and almost broken As thousands they grieve, as the Black Friday rule The buildings they shake but my heart it beats still Oh mother of Jesus, I feel pretty ill I want to go home where my feet both feel safe But there ain't no jobs in the old free state So I must remain in my new adopted land I'm doing the best, Hell I'm doin' all I can So next time you see me, don't ask for my name For I am the King and sure long may I reign I've been down in this world, down and almost broken Like thousands of people, left standing in their shoe I've been down in this world, down and almost broken As thousands they grieve, as the Black Friday rule I've been down in this world, down and almost broken Like thousands of people, left standing in their shoe I've been down in this world, down and almost broken As thousands they grieve, as the Black Friday rule
9.
Dust falls on the empty halls of my old school Where the memories fade like the casualty, a forgotten fool Now the wide-eyed has become the blind of spoken rule As equal only deep is now the word The lesson's not the answer you once heard "Don't turn your back on me, don't ever let me down" She said, "I picked you up each time before you hit the ground Your selfish face is now erased when someone mentions you And the darkness that you left is overstepped aside With disappearing clouds, the sun arrives Within a mile of home, within a mile of home" Oh worry, oh my worry has it been that long? The whistle keeps on blowing but the chills all gone His empty frame cannot explain, there's nothing left inside So sing to me a song from yesterday When laughter filled the tears that we now make "Don't turn your back on me, don't ever let me down" She said, "I picked you up each time before you hit the ground Your selfish face is now erased when someone mentions you If only you had seen what I now see And turned the corner where you would of been Within a mile of home, within a mile of home" So sing to me, sing me a song, a song from yesterday And when the laughter turned these tears before the promises, then they'll slip away Don't turn your back on me, don't turn your back on me, don't ever let me down Don't turn your back on me, don't turn your back on me, don't ever let me down We are within a mile, we are within a mile, within a mile of home We are within a mile, we are within a mile, within a mile of home We are within a mile, we are within a mile, within a mile of home We are within a mile, we are within a mile, within a mile of home
10.
His eyes they closed and his last breath spoke he had seen all to be seen a life once full now an empty vase wilt the blossoms on his early grave walk away me boys walk away me boys and by morning we'll be free wipe that golden tear from your mother dear and raise what's left of the flag for me then the rosary beads count them 1 2 3 fell apart as they hit the floor in a garb of black we must pay respect to the color we were born to mourn walk away me boys walk away me boys and by morning we'll be free wipe that golden tear from your mother dear and raise what's left of the flag for me In its place grew an angry festered wound full of hatred and remorse where I pick and scratch till the blood it matched silent rage that now fills my lungs for there are many ways to kill a man they say with bayonet, axe or sword but son a bullet fired from a shapeless guise just put the shell of a Thompson gun walk away me boy walk away me boys and by morning we'll be free wipe that golden tear from your mother dear and raise what's left of the flag for me from the east out to the western shore where many men and many more will fall but no angel flies with me tonight though freedom reigns on all and curse the name for which we slaved our days so every men chose Kingdom Come But sure as night turns day it's the passion play oh my god what have they done with madman's rage well they dug our graves but the dead rise again you fools walk away me boy walk away me boys and by morning we'll be free wipe that golden tear from your mother dear and raise what's left of the flag for me walk away me boy walk away me boys and by morning we'll be free wipe that golden tear from your mother dear and raise what's left of the flag for me

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