Drunken Lullabies

Album: Drunken Lullabies (2002)
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  • 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
    While 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 bars these 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 color 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 Writer/s: Bridget Regan, Dave King, Dennis Casey, George Schmidt, Matt Hensley, Nathan Maxwell, Robert Schmidt, Ted Hutt
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sentric Music
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Tay from San Diego, Cai love this song, it has a great beat
  • Niall from Co.kildare, -Second that Owen, that's an awfully thick Dublin accent on Dave for a northern lad!
  • Madison from Norway, MeLove Flogging Molly. Too bad they don't get much airplay in the US (on FM). I hear them a lot on XM Satellite.
  • Russ from Kilkenny, IrelandGreat song to get pumped to before going out on the pitch!
  • Owen from Rahway, NjDave King was born in Beggars Bush which is in Dublin, Southern Ireland not Northern Ireland.
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