These Exiled Years Lyrics - Swagger - Flogging Molly

It's four in the morning, battered and numb 

A loaded room, an empty gun 

I whistle a tune I heard years before 

The clock started ticking, where did the time go? 

I danced to the morning, she called out my name 

The wind was a howling and down came the rain 

Her arms, they caressed me, sweet was her brow 

She opened my eyes to banish the doubt 

Wash me down in all your joy 

But don't drag me through this again 

I've heard all your sad songs I can hear 

It's in with the whiskey and out with the gin 

I've heard all your sad songs I can hear 

It's another day older in these exiled years 

The dew on the ground blankets the face 

Cold was the night and gone her embrace 

For your land of the free now prisons me 

To rot in this jail of lost liberty 

Wash me down in all your joy 

Don't drag me through this again 

I've heard all your sad songs I can hear 

It's in with the whiskey and out with the gin 

I've heard all your sad songs I can hear 

It's another day older in these exiled years 

Walk away 

Watch me as I wave 

One foot here, but sure the other's in the grave 

Walk away, walk away 

I've heard all your sad songs I can hear 

It's in with the whiskey and out with the gin 

I've heard all your sad songs I can hear 

It's another day older in these exiled years