Is my longing for Dublin just coz you’re in it I’m on the decks and it’s the way that you spin it And there are buildings scraping the sky And a civilization threatening to die And I walked the yards into the green I was ashamed of what I had been In midnights and the dawn I searched for something but it was gone A pyramid scheme Til the suffering woke the dream Up from where it had been sleeping Now it’s just the promise I’m keeping As I pray to a God without belief And the moment of relief When all and sundry falls away Some have called it the break of day But it’s the dark The dead of night in the park Just staring at walls Hoping for a free for all But I got a cell and a bed to lay Could I have had it any other way?