Flogging Molly - "Drunken Lullabies"

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[Intro]

Must it take a life for hateful lies
To glisten once again

Five hundred years like Celtic knites
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 lies
To glisten once again

Cause we find ourselves 
in the same old mess
Singin' drunken lullabies 

[Instrumental]

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 lies
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

[Instrumental]

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 lies
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

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