Drunken Lullabies
by Flogging Molly
Intro main banjo melody, then fiddle over:
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
To glisten once again
Five hundred years like Gelignite
Have blown us all to hell (to hell!)
What savior rests while on his cross we die
For- gotten freedom burns
Has the Shepherd led his lambs astray
to the bigot and the gun
Chorus
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
To glisten once again
Cause we find our- selves in the same old mess
Singin' drunken lulla- bies
Repeat Intro
I watch and stare as Rosin's eyes
Turn a darker shade of red
And the bullet with this sniper lie
In their bloody gutless cell
Must we starve on crumbs from long ago
Through these bars of man made steel
Is it a great or little thing we fought
Knelt the conscience blessed to kill
Chorus
Bridge
Ah, but maybe it's the way we're taught
Or maybe it's the way we fought
But a smile never grins without tears to begin
For each kiss is a cry we all lost
Though nothing left to gain
But for the banshee that stole the grave
Cause we find our- selves in the same old mess
Singin' drunken lulla- bies (right!)
Solo over Intro x3
I sit in and dwell on faces past
Like memories seem to fade
No color left but black and white
And soon will all turn grey
But may these shadows rise to walk again
With lessons truly learnt
When the blossom flowers in each our hearts
Shall beat a new found flame (the flame!)
Chorus
Cause we find our- selves in the same old mess
Singin' drunken lulla- bies
Singin' drunken lulla- bies
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
To glisten once again
Five hundred years like Gelignite
Have blown us all to hell (to hell!)
What savior rests while on his cross we die
For- gotten freedom burns
Has the Shepherd led his lambs astray
to the bigot and the gun
Chorus
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
To glisten once again
Cause we find our- selves in the same old mess
Singin' drunken lulla- bies
Repeat Intro
I watch and stare as Rosin's eyes
Turn a darker shade of red
And the bullet with this sniper lie
In their bloody gutless cell
Must we starve on crumbs from long ago
Through these bars of man made steel
Is it a great or little thing we fought
Knelt the conscience blessed to kill
Chorus
Bridge
Ah, but maybe it's the way we're taught
Or maybe it's the way we fought
But a smile never grins without tears to begin
For each kiss is a cry we all lost
Though nothing left to gain
But for the banshee that stole the grave
Cause we find our- selves in the same old mess
Singin' drunken lulla- bies (right!)
Solo over Intro x3
I sit in and dwell on faces past
Like memories seem to fade
No color left but black and white
And soon will all turn grey
But may these shadows rise to walk again
With lessons truly learnt
When the blossom flowers in each our hearts
Shall beat a new found flame (the flame!)
Chorus
Cause we find our- selves in the same old mess
Singin' drunken lulla- bies
Singin' drunken lulla- bies