Of The Sorrows

Stay here in Ireland
With the chains that bind your chest
Your eyes are bloodshot red
When you're looking at the rents
Your past alive in wet cement
Two great jobs and a life that's filled with work
But the bank will only leave your heart with hurt
Stay here in Ireland
And never find a peaceful rest
Work to the bone just to pay off all your debts
Your life unfolding in a mess
But there's life in those bonny rowan trees
That put the beauty in the only air I breathe
Stay here in Ireland
And sing your troubles into song
Bankrupt yourself just to stay where you belong
Hide all our morals in the past to make it last
Because we're terrified to leave the laptop class
Stay here in Ireland
And you'll suffer through the grey
Because that money won't take your pain away
And your heart still makes you
Stay here in Ireland
Where nothing comes for free
But you'll find beauty in the depths of Irish seas
Stay here in Ireland
Because you've been here all your life
What's another night inside this building site, despite the price
The only ones you've ever loved all live within your neighbourhood
How could you leave without putting up a fight?
Stay here in Ireland
And you learn to count your blessings
There's no future found around a life of planned obsolescence
The job of your dreams has been replaced by machines
But it's hard to complain once you look beyond the shores
Stay here in Ireland
In a town that's torn and hollow
You're torn apart by love of place like Deirdre of the sorrows
Borrowed lines and times won't outshine the horror of tomorrow
So you'll stay another day and you'll take all that you can swallow
Stay here in Ireland
And see the Morrigan's sight
What was the price of a night
Is now the price of a pint
Destined to stay behind
These buckthorn roots will die
But I'll try and nurture them and hang
On for another summer of good drying
Stay here in Ireland
And you learn to bite your tongue
Because your labour puts the boot down on someone
No peaceful way to make a ton
So you drink your loss in pubs
And grit your teeth through all the shite they talk for fun
You've got some Landian scholar pent up on piss, shit and squalor
Spouting ouroborous horrors on the barstool
These slumlord ideologues are a cartoon
And I'll watch them eat their legs when they can't move
And I'll smile through it
There's no peace across the sea for me
No world where I feel free
I'll stay trapped beneath the weight
Of a future ripped by teeth
The only place that I can breathe
Is with the bonny rowan trees
I'll never leave, I'll never leave, I'll never leave
There's no peace across the sea for me
No world where I feel free
This building site that's city-wide
Is scattered with debris
The only place that I can breathe
Is with the bonny rowan trees
I'll never leave, I have to leave
I'll never leave, I have to leave, I have to leave
I have to leave
I'll never leave
I have to leave
I'll never leave
I have to leave
I'll never leave, I'll never leave, I'll never leave