Dún Laoghaire

There are buried worlds within us Rainy nights as black as Guinness Apparitions lodged like splinters With thoughts all smudged and beery Make my way down to Dún Laoghaire Peek through windows, fogged and teary From the warmth inside And if you can't learn to love it 'Fraid you're gonna have to shove it Stacked too high to rise above it So we're kicking o'er the traces With two fingers to their faces And proceeding on the basis Of inalienable right And ain't it obvious By now? There ain't no me and you Never was Don't have to be a genius To work it out We're all effect without a cause Watching Oz, the great magician Eyes shut in the brace position Changed beyond all recognition And the radius of our footsteps Spans a world of shattered concepts Abandoned buildings loom like shipwrecks In the ebbing tide And ain't it obvious By now? There ain't no me and you Never was Don't have to be a genius To work it out We're all effect without a cause Is it some ridiculous misplaced? Sense of pride That keeps me hauling On the line Gonna step right out of this I just can't abide If I had a pound for Every time