Drunken Lullabies

Must it take a life for hateful eyes

To glisten once again?

Five hundred years like gelignite

Have blown us all to hell

What saviour rests while on his cross we die?

Forgotten freedom burns

Has the shepherd 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

Singing drunken lullabies

I watch and stare as Roisín'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

Singing drunken lullabies

Ah but maybe it's the way we're taught

Ah, but 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 nothing is left to gain

But for the banshee that stole the grave

'Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess

Singing drunken lullabies

I sit 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 newfound flame

Must it take a life for hateful eyes

To glisten once again?

'Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess

Singing drunken lullabies

'Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess

Singing drunken lullabies

Singing drunken lullabies