Boys of the Old Brigade - The Maguire Brothers

When I wake up Will I find that the diggings of this excavation Have come to haunt me We'll hurry on down the line Where our minds won't get caught Some love that came And fucked my piece of mind 20 years down the road we'll grow old and see That the light of the day was so ordinary Then my ship set sail from a storm ridden bay Holy water come and wash, wash me away Will you wait up Can you carry my mind as far as you can Maybe for the weekend It's sitting on a lot of dust Waiting on a good reason To come back home I'm beside myself again

Our paths will never cross again And that's the way you wanted it You never could care less about The way we ended up We swim in different circles now I saw your tracks in snowy ground And didn't want to follow them As you fell off the earth Sightings few and far between I have no words when they tell me A figure spotted roaming in The icy mountain wilds There was a time I felt for you Would collect these words like drops of dew And savour on my tongue In season dry And I don't know you I used to like to pretend to We're nothing but myths now That neither of us believe in You hear how I achieved good ends Out of the mouths of mutual friends And shrug and raise your eyebrows In the way you always have And with that too they carry rumours of When someone last saw my movements A shadow treading through the willows In the forest land Messages that reach our ears Are met with an indifference I never thought I wouldn't care about you But here we are Flung to earth's corners far We're nothing but myths now That neither of us believe in My tongue's forgotten how To shape your name, the way it sounds We're nothing but myths now That neither of us believe in No muscle memory No lingering taste No persistent impulse To pick up your trace I left you no note You left me no sign Of where I plan to go Of what you've gone to find Sweet indifference Gentle apathy Wholesome, quiet dispassion Restful neutrality We're nothing but myths now That neither of us believe in We're nothing but myths now That neither of us believe in

What is love? Did I miss it? Am I home? Or still adrift? Love brought weight to this heart of mine Gone to waste in due time Keep on moving If you still can A simple home A love in hand Love brought weight to this heart of mine Gone to waste in due time Love brought weight to this heart of mine You're away, but I'll be fine And I'll be fine Out grow our time Down the line You'll see Love brought weight to this heart of mine Gone to waste in due time Love brought weight to this heart of mine You're away, but I'll be fine And I'll be fine

You know I I feel you You know I I feel you Feel you in the morning Feel you in the evening Feel you when I'm sleeping Feel you when I'm dreaming And I I see you Standing in the moonlight You look so nice I'm over in the bar light By the neon sign And all the words we say Won't last all day, anyways And all the drinks we take Won't take our love away, no they won't And I I hear you I hear you in the city I hear you when I'm empty I hear you going over To the home of another And all the words we say Won't last all day, anyways And all the drinks we take Won't take our love away, no they won't No they won't

I was born in the Dublin streets Where the loyal drums do beat And the loving English feet walked all over us Where each and every night When me dad would come home tight He'd call the neighbors out with this chorus "Come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders Show her how the IRA made you run like hell away From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra" Come tell us how you slew them old Arabs two by two Like the Zulus they had knives and bows and arrows How bravely you faced one with your 16-pounder gun And you frightened all the natives to the marrow "Come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders Show her how the IRA made you run like hell away From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra" Come let us hear you tell how you slew the great Parnell And showed him what was well and persecuted Where are the stares and jeers that you proudly let us hear When our heroes of '16 were executed? "Come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders Show her how the IRA made you run like hell away From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra" Come out you British huns, come out and fight without your guns Show your wife how you won medals up in Derry You murdered five young men and you'd do the same again So get out of here and take your bloody army "Come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders Show her how the IRA made you run like hell away From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra" "Come out you black and tans, fight me like a man Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders Show her how the IRA made you run like hell away From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra"