Is to be mother just to gain an experience Nothing to do with the child But a biological urging that has run wild And we’re watching little ones bleed to death On a screen but we forget As we bring new babies to this earth That they are capable of feeling hurt And I am reminded of a promise I made Before the sun put me in the shade That I would never fall to the fallow field That only knows how to yield To a power greater than it Fertile ground that only ever sit In the seed to germinate So he asks the girl on a date And it may be for the masses, it isn’t for me But I love them so much and they do not see As the mattress bows and the bodies writhe But they’re ashamed and so they hide Their lovemaking under the covers Because they should never be lovers According to modern society You must do it in the dark or someone will see And you’ll go to hell (or something like that) But I took the baseball bat And smashed that particular window Because I don’t believe it’s a sin, though There is shame and there is expense When you do it outside the present tense And I may be tantric and I may be yogi But I don’t walk with someone that doesn’t know me In the depths, not surface tension And the only way to make an extension Is to know just who you are But when I saw that boy I saw the star Burning in his heart and soul I was just eighteen years old And he six months my junior But still 1990 so acceptable sooner Than I would have liked And my courage spiked As we sat next to each other As though the apple had fallen into the hands of a lover And we both took a bite But it is alright Fifteen and a half years later Though there is a crater Left by that meteor strike I just thought you should know I like You in that way Though what is it that you say You don’t got time Well, here I have plenty, take some of mine
We were warriors We fought it out You took the words Right out of my mouth And we left it all on the pitch Do you remember that man called me a bitch But I didn’t care Because Linda was there And she caught the ball OCD was like a brick wall But I fought through it like a solid defence Remember to put pain in the past tense And Natalie burns the turf with her feet She’d score a goal in a heartbeat It was the spirit of the day When the minor semi final of ‘07 went our way The underdog We’re strong from footing turf on the bog It’s an Irish summer Three good days and the rest are no wonder Do you think I’ve let it go Just coz I’ve stopped playing, you know I hold on To the years that are gone When thirty seconds can feel so long When there’s but a minute to go It’s LGFA if you didn’t know
I guess I was wrong I was so hypocritical I never stood up for you Antithetical And the movement was counter To the culture you know So GAA in your face To hammer the blow Home like you never knew But I loved you And your depression reeks Of the mountain you never speak And I know you have something In you to say I can feel it when You look at me that way And the colours are shining And you’re full of pride There’s a part of my life That I always hide From the well wishers from walls Sick of getting these cold calls From a foreign air It’s as though I’m about to go spare Running a race I’ll never win If I agree will you let me in But is that just bad form When there’s a part of my heart warm From the joy of just meeting you I went along with it coz you wanted me to
Sexy motherfucker up on the stage I put pen to paper and ruin the page With all that I yearn for in the night You’re one kind of trauma I don’t have to fight As you sing with your heart and soul And I feel the ache in the place I am not whole In the summer of a winter’s glen Will this happen to me again If I don’t swim in ocean water Trying to be a good daughter And adhere to the lines If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a thousand times Skiing down the hill Against the force of the brutal will That seems to hold us all at bay And it is not okay Just to swim in that sea Is it that you’re talking to me When you commit me to a room And I become familiar with the realm of doom As it beats on my door Telling me it wants me more Than any earthly thing could contain The paint is stripped by acid rain As it pours down in sheets The car is ruined and the sheep bleets
Like a bottle of vitriol I keep on call Like I’m talking to crowds And then to the wall Coz I’ve got this pulse That hammers my veins And I keep hearing quotes And magnificent refrains That call me to be Something new And I don’t owe anything To the memory of you Coz I fight with the dream The fabric I’d crafted I remember the moment That you felt I laughed at All you could not be And you always said You were jealous of me And I kept it like a secret Honor bound Til you changed your tune And the sound Turned to clashing symbols I’m covering my ears Waiting for the air to clear And tell me that I’m Safe again And I found dew drops In the eyes of men To patch up What you tore of me But I love them honest So I set them free To keep what I’d taken In circumstance But they always Ask me to dance And I can’t say no But where would you go If you knew the truth The black mark that became my youth All because I Splintered the prose And you simply Took another road That lead you down An avenue Don’t say that you miss me Coz I don’t miss you And I’m not gonna lie And say it’s okay I still remember The pain of that day And the weeks and months And years to follow When what had been full Suddenly seemed hollow And I can’t say that you Carved out a mark Coz there are no forms In the magnificent dark Only the feeling That all is well Is it time To show and tell
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Oxegen was something of a revelation They always said I was above my station Staring into stars like that But I’ve caught the bug and I want you back
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