Love Ire & Song

[00:16.04] Well a teacher of mine once told me
[00:20.16] That life was just a list of disappointments and defeats
[00:23.45] And you could only do your best
[00:25.59] And I said: "Well that's a fucking cop out
[00:27.72] You're just washed up and you're tired
[00:29.56] And when I get to your age, well
[00:31.87] I won't be such a coward"
[00:33.75] But these days I sit at home
[00:35.66] I'm known to shout at my TV
[00:37.70] And punk rock didn't live up to what I'd hoped that it could be
[00:41.47] And all the things that I believed with all my heart when I was young
[00:45.43] Are just coasters for beers and clean surfaces for drugs
[00:49.40] And I've packed all my pamphlets with my bibles at the back of the shelf.
[01:09.78] Well it was bad enough, the feeling
[01:11.65] The first time it hit
[01:13.22] When you realized your parents had let the world all go to shit
[01:17.20] And that the values and ideals for which many have fought and died
[01:21.15] Had been killed off in the committees
[01:23.31] And left to die by the way-side
[01:25.47] But it was worse when we turned to the kids on the left
[01:29.31] And got let down again by some poor excuse of protest
[01:33.36] Yeah, by idiot fucking hippies in fifty different factions
[01:37.38] Who are locked inside some kind of sixties battle re-enactment
[01:41.19] And I hung up my banner in disgust when I head for the door.
[01:48.87] Oh but once, we were young and we were crass enough to care
[01:56.30] But I guess you live and learn
[02:00.03] We won't make that mistake again, no
[02:04.61] Oh, but surely, just for one day, yeah, we could fight and we could win
[02:12.01] And if only for a little while
[02:15.78] We could insist on the impossible.
[02:20.80] Well we've been a good few hours drinking
[02:24.55] So I'm going to say what everyone's thinking
[02:28.46] If we're stuck on this ship and it's sinking
[02:32.45] Then we might as well have a parade
[02:36.25] So if it's still going to hurt in the morning
[02:40.49] And a better plan's yet to get forming
[02:44.52] Then where's the harm spending an evening
[02:48.52] In manning the old barricades?
[02:54.53] So come on old friends, to the streets
[02:57.58] Let's be 1905 but not 1917
[03:02.33] Let's be heroes, let's be martyrs
[03:04.50] Let's be radical thinkers
[03:06.62] Who never have to test drive the least of their dreams
[03:10.53] Let's divide up the world into the damned and the saved
[03:14.38] And then ride to the valley like the old Light Brigade
[03:18.77] And straighten our backs, and we won't be afraid
[03:22.45] And they'll celebrate our deaths with a national parade.
[03:26.39] So come on
[03:28.23] Let's be young, let's be crass enough to care
[03:33.77] Let's refuse to live and learn
[03:37.26] Let's make all our mistakes again, yes
[03:42.05] And then darling, just for one day, yeah
[03:46.23] We can fight and we can win
[03:50.35] And if only for a little while
[03:53.74] We could insist on the impossible
[04:00.70] Leave the morning to the morning
[04:04.16] Yeah, pain can be killed
[04:06.17] With aspirin tablets and vitamin pills
[04:09.91] But memories of hope and of glorious defeat
[04:13.88] Are a little bit harder to beat.
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