Though up till then I'd thought that what I had was fine. I realised then as the earth moved that first time. That I had had more here inside. Just waiting for the vital spark.
He joined up to get a job and show he wasn't scared. Swapped boy scout hat for army cap. He thought he'd be prepared. At the age of seventeen, he was forced to choose.
Then the rain came down. And washed all hope away. And your life's a train. But it only goes one way. What about the times when you were happy. Balance them against the times you're sad.
Paddy is waiting in Drogheda town. For the train to carry him south. Another drunken night on the town. Messing around. . The Roaring Boys, the roaring boys.
He joined up to get a job and show he wasn't scared. Swapped boy scout hat for army cap. He thought he'd be prepared. At the age of seventeen, he was forced to choose.
So somebody's told you how to be a man. Just fuck 'em and leave 'em. And score as many as you can. But always have someone who's close to your heart. .
Your family can't help you. They're standing in your way. Tight restrictions, contradictions. More rules every day. Hold you down, they hold you down.
Maybe you remember, before the wall came down. How we hated one another from the other side of town. Now I'm an old man. . And an old man can see. All that hate can leave you with.
It makes you so angry. You rage and rage again. But you can't spit it outside. It's bottled in your brain. You feel it in the darkness. The rage inside you grow.
Broken glass everywhere. People pissing on the station. Y'know they just don't care. I can't take the smell. I can't take the noise. I got no money to move out.
Everything is turning upside down in this town. The crime rate's rising up as employment swoops down. Kids can't trust their parents to protect them no more.
From the minute you're born. Til the day you die. Why'know they put you on trial. Yeah, they make you strive, strive, strive. Here's my little warning.
Every time I go to speak my mind you just ignore me. Every time I try to have my say you have it for me. They say there's freedom of speech. But when I try to make free you say.
(Jake Burns). . Well I can't lie and I won't try. I ain't waited this long just to hide. This could be wrong but I don't mind. Can't disguise the way I feel tonight.
Inflammable material, planted in my head. It's a suspect device that's left two thousand dead. Their solutions are our problems. They put up the wall.
All things are relative with cousins everywhere. Hard-nosed blue-eyed boys, intelligent and fair. You gotta pitch in for your kids and kin. Holding the line to save our skin.
You lit a flame in my heart. And it is burning still. And every time I hear you shout. It still gives me a thrill. I can see you up there. With your right leg pumping.
No Sleep 'til Belfast. 5 years on we're still the same. Fucking useless with the same old name. Bored of this life and you are too. Thought that we'd try something new.
Now I'm a little bit older. I'm expected to accept all the things that I can't change. I'm supposed to stand aside. While the fairness you can't hide is paraded before my face.
You're looking for something. But what could that be?. You look for a hero. Yeah, don't look at me. You're lookin' around yourself, there's nothing you can find.