Of The Sorrows

Stay at home here in Ireland and I'll never see you dispersed

That she used to tell me

Stay here in Ireland, I'll never see you dispersed

Stay at home here in Ireland and I'll never see you dispersed

That she used to tell me

Stay here in Ireland and I'll never see you dispersed

Stay at home here in Ireland and I'll never see you dispersed

That she used to tell me

Stay here in Ireland and I'll never see you dispersed

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

Worked to the bone just to pay off all your debts

Your life unfolding in a mess

But there's life in those Bonnie 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

'Cause we're terrified to leave the laptop class

Stay here in Ireland and you'll suffer through the grey

'Cause that money won't take your pain away

And your heart still makes ya stay here in Ireland

Where nothing comes for free

But you'll find beauty in the depths of Irish seas

Stay here in Ireland 'cause 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'll 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The job of your dreams has been replaced by machines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 turning 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 sight

What was the price of a night is now the price of a pint

Destined to stay behind, these upturned 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 tonne

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 ouroboros 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 thieves

The only place that I can breathe is with the Bonnie 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 Bonnie 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

I had to leave it, but I want to die in it