Exhilarating Sadness Lyrics

When I signed on I was sixteen Had to lie about my age Had me hair cut short already At the time 'twas all the rage I heard so many stories About the crack in Mullingar And the gle...Read Full Lyrics

Oh I watched the news at six o'clock It made me want to cry The oceans are polluted, we've damaged all the sky And there's wars and wars and rumors And a hungry baby cries Still we...Read Full Lyrics

Everyday she's on the boat When it pulls out from the quay Far from small town eyes she floats Across the Irish Sea She's the girl you know from down the road She's your one from o...Read Full Lyrics

We went out to a weekend festival on Clare Island in August 1990 And on the boat back on a perfect autumn evening the green and red of mayo was conceived with well known Galway fre...Read Full Lyrics

I asked him to bail it tomorra Sonny'll come over tomorra Sonny got a brand new welder He got rid a that auld new Holland Hay! Bale them bale them Hay! Hay! I'd kill for a pinta ...Read Full Lyrics

I know that things Can never be the same That's all right, that's all right with me I've seen the truth, I've felt the Pain I'm heading for the sunshine once Again Been through so...Read Full Lyrics

You don't say that you love him But it shows in every word When he played his favourite music Was the best you'd ever heard And you tell me that he couldn't watch The violence cut ...Read Full Lyrics

I don't know if the seas will rise way above the shores Wash away the evidence of all that went before And I don't know if our ancestors dwell somewhere up above I don't know so ma...Read Full Lyrics

I have fallen for another she can make her own way home And even if she asked me now I'd let her go alone I useta see her up the chapel when she went to Sunday mass And when she'd ...Read Full Lyrics

I wrote her name and address on the back of a cigarette pack I didn't know then that I'd never be goin' back The ferry was leaving when we pulled up to the quay When we reached Hol...Read Full Lyrics