Life in a Tenement Square-Flogging Molly

[ti:Life in a Tenement Square] [ar:Flogging Molly] [al:Swagger] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.08]Life in a Tenement Square - Flogging Molly [00:03.01]Written by：Flogging Molly [00:04.28] [00:47.27]Well I kissed the day I was on my way [00:50.96]From those cold gray blocks of stone [00:53.47] [00:54.57]For seventeen years of squalor filled tears [00:58.11]A time now with innocence lost [01:00.66] [01:01.53]As the sun split the room [01:03.23]With it's rays filled with gloom [01:05.41]Turnin' all hope to despair [01:07.80] [01:08.57]And the only thing left [01:10.34]Was to flee from the nest [01:12.09]That was life in a tenement square [01:14.79] [01:15.42]Yeah [01:16.12] [01:23.04]I remember the song where the rats sang along [01:26.55]And danced for their daily bread [01:28.97] [01:29.87]While the damp washed the walls [01:31.99]That were twenty feet tall [01:33.78]Not a child in the house was fed [01:36.31] [01:37.12]On the porter filled face [01:38.81]Of the men left a trace [01:40.59]Of the coin they had already spent [01:43.11] [01:44.08]While our mothers asked God [01:46.07]What was hell ever for [01:47.87]When you lived in a tenement square [01:50.52] [01:51.31]Grab what's left of the coal [01:53.21]From the old cubbyhole [01:55.11]These cinders need more to be a fire [01:57.71] [01:58.45]While the ghosts of the soldiers [02:00.59]That lived there before us [02:02.43]Laugh with their guns by their side [02:04.93] [02:05.52]I hear them laugh with their guns by their side [02:08.77] [02:23.28]Now politicians they dwell [02:25.40]In that forgotten hell [02:27.04]Our misery's been turned into mews [02:29.98] [02:30.70]Where the fat of the land [02:32.57]Now hog hand in hand [02:34.32]A crime now of life was ever true [02:37.10] [02:37.72]As the sun split the room [02:39.53]With it's rays filled with gloom [02:41.69]Turnin' all hope to despair [02:44.52] [02:45.62]And the only thing left [02:47.87]Was to flee from the nest [02:50.20]That was life in a tenement square