celtic-punk

"By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young man calling Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free Against the famine and the crown, I rebelled, they cut me down. Now you must raise our child with dignity."

"So give me one more chance to prove these problems and frustrations aren't just manifest in memories we're destined to repeat. A second chance to prove I know right from wrong. I swear I'll do things different but can't promise to be strong."

"I can bench press a car, I'm an ex football star with degrees from both Harvard and Yale. Girls just can't keep up, I'm a real love machine I've had far better sex while in jail. I've designed the Sears Tower, I make two grand an hour I cook the world's best duck flambé. I'll take the pick of the litter, girls jockey for me I don't need these lines to get laid."

"We are the ones who will never be broken We are the ones who survive."

"It's another murderous night Another left hook from hell A bloody war on the boardwalk And the kid from Lowell rises to the bell."

"Well it's all gone to hell now, even the wimps have gangs Pop punk tough guys with neck tattoos Well if you guys are hard then I'd rather be soft"

"Come decimate dictatorships and overthrow regimes In exotic far-off places the vacation of your dreams You'll assemble puppet governments and play the hand of God We're an equal opportunity crime fighting squad Citizen CIA"

"And I can't help but wonder oh Willy McBride. Do all those who lie here know why they died? Did you really believe them when they told you the cause? Did you really believe that this war would end wars? Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame. The killing and dying it was all done in vain. Oh Willy McBride it all happened again. And again, and again, and again, and again"

"Oh the day was dying and the wind was sighing, As I lay there crying in my prison cell"

"See, we had each other / it was us against the world / famous for nothing / Yeah, nothing was our world"

"She had excuses and she chose to use themshe was the victim of unspeakable abusesher husband was violent, malicious and distanther kids now belong to the state of Massachusetts."

"Billy was the bright oneTommy's off his headmother loved them both the same, at least that's what she saidI don't predict the future, I don't care about the pastsend them both to DSS, now you had your chancethe poison took your babiesthe judges took your rightsyou can have your children or the night!"

"This gal she fainted and cried bloody murder, Called for her sons and gathered them all, Christopher swore he'd go no further, Till he had revenge at Flannigan's ball"

"You said we die alone, in this case you were right. No friends by your side or family in sight. There'll be no talking your way out this time. So don't count the cash cause you leave it behind"

"19 men were tried and fired, August 26th through 29th For violation of rule 35 -- the forbidden right to organize They suffered the loss of their livelihood that night. A city in terror on the thin blue line. A thousand-plus walked off the job to support their brothers' cause, The anti-union prohibition clause."

"We go over to Europe and people go ‘So you guys are from Ireland.’ We go ‘No, we’re an American band. We’re not interested in being from Ireland. That’s not what we ever sung about. We don’t romanticize about being from Ireland.’ I’m not even Irish. I’m Scottish-German. That’s not even important."

"Sometimes I feel like I'm repeating myself over and over again to educate the public that not all skinheads are racist, and as a matter of fact there's a large majority of them that aren't."