Flogging Molly - Life In A Tenement Square Lyrics






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
Turnin' all hope to despair
And the only thing left
Was to flee from the nest
That was Life In A Tenement Square:

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 what's left of the coal
From the ol' 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 misery'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
Turnin' all hope to despair
And the only thing left
Was to flee from the nest
That was Life In A Tenement Square...





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  1. A.... C....

    Love this song!!!

  2. W.... G....

    LYRIC CORRECTIONS MARKED BY "***"
    Well I kissed the day, I was on my way 
    From 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 
    Turnin' all hope to despair 
    And the only thing left 
    Was to flee from the nest 
    That was Life In A Tenement Square:

    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 no 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 what's left of the coal 
    From the ol' 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 sides*** 
    I hear them laugh, with their guns by their sides***

    Now politicians they dwell 
    In that forgotten Hell 
    Our misery'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 
    Turnin' all hope to despair 
    The only thing left**** 
    Was to flee from the nest 
    That was Life In A Tenement Square