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Life In A Tenement Square Lyrics

Artist: Flogging Molly
Album: Swagger

Well I kissed the day, I was on my way
From those cold gray blocks of stone
For seventeen years of squalor filled tears
A time now with innocence lost
As the sun split the room
With its rays filled with gloom
Turninâ‚¬â„¢ all hope to despair
And the only thing left
Was to flee from the nest
That was Life In A Tenement Squareâ‚¬

I remember the song where the rats sang along
And danced for their daily bread
While the damp washed the walls
That were twenty feet tall
Not a child in the house was fed
On the porter filled face
Of the men left a trace
Of the coin they had already spent
While our mothers asked God
What was Hell ever for
When you lived in a Tenement Square

Grab whatâ‚¬â„¢s left of the coal
From the olâ‚¬â„¢ cubbyhole
These cinders need more to be a fire
While the ghosts of the soldiers
That lived there before us
Laugh with their guns by their side
I hear them laugh, with their guns by their side

Now politicians they dwell
In that forgotten Hell
Our miseryâ‚¬â„¢s been turned into mews
Where the fat of the land
Now hog, hand-in-hand
A crime now of life was ever true
As the sun split the room
With its rays filled with gloom
Turninâ‚¬â„¢ all hope to despair
And the only thing left
Was to flee from the nest
That was Life In A Tenement Squareâ‚¬

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