Irish Bands

"It's the blind leading the blond It's the cops collecting for the cons. So where is the hope and Where is the faith and the love? What's that you say to me Does love light up your Christmas tree? The next minute you're blowing a fuse And the cartoon network turns into the news."

"Jesus never let me down You know Jesus used to show me the score. Then they put Jesus in show business Now it's hard to get in the door.It's the stuff, it's the stuff of country songs But I guess it was something to go on. Hey, if God will send his angels I sure could use them here right now"

"She feel the ground is giving way But she thinks we're better off that way. The more you take, the less you feel The less you know the more you believe The more you have, the more it takes today."

"There was a badness that had its way Love was not lost, love will have its day"

"It's a beautiful day. Don't let it get away."

"You're on the road, But you've got no destination. You're in the mud, In the maze of her imagination.You love this town, Even if it doesn't ring true. You've been all over And it's been all over you."

"What you don't have you don't need it now, What you don't know you can feel it somehow."

"I'm not afraid of anything in this world There's nothing you can throw at me that I haven't already heard I'm just trying to find a decent melody A song that I can sing in my own company"

"You've got to get yourself together You've got stuck in a moment and now you can't get out of it. Don't say that later will be better now, You're stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it."

"High, higher than the sun You shoot me from a gun I need you to elevate me here, At the corner of your lips As the orbit of your hips Eclipse, you elevate my soul."

"And love is not the easy thing... The only baggage you can bring Is all that you can't leave behind."

"Walk on, walk on What you got they can't steal it No they can't even feel it Walk on, walk on... Stay safe tonight."

"Leave it behind You've got to leave it behind: All that you fashion All that you make All that you build All that you break All that you measure All that you steal All this you can leave behind All that you reason All that you sense All that you speak All you dress up All that you scheme."

"Lights go down, it's dark The jungle is your head Can't rule your heart A feeling is so much stronger than A thought Your eyes are wide And though your soul It can't be bought Your mind can wander.Hello hello I'm at a place called Vertigo It's everything I wish I didn't know Except you give me something I can feel, feel."

"The songs are in your eyes I see them when you smile I've had enough I'm not giving up On a miracle drug.Of science and the human heart There is no limit There is no failure here sweetheart Just when you quit."

"Tough, you think you've got the stuff You're telling me and anyone You're hard enough.You don't have to put up a fight You don't have to always be right Let me take some of the punches For you tonight."

"When Aung San Suu Kyi was released, we punched the air. When she came to Dublin to thank Ireland and Amnesty International, we Irish could not have been more proud. When her party the NLD won a landslide in the elections and she stood her ground to become de-facto head of the country, an impossible journey seemed to be reaching its destination. We wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but instead held our breath. She had built her reputation on her refusal to compromise her beliefs (as well as on the personal sacrifice that entailed), but forming a government requires a certain amount of pragmatism. We feared the military's brutality would be quick to show itself again if she overstepped the mark, and while hopeful for progress, we wondered if we would find ourselves once again campaigning for her release. But what has happened this year, and in particular these past months – this, we never imagined. Who could have predicted that if more than 600,000 people were fleeing from a brutal army for fear of their lives, the woman who many of us believed would have the clearest and loudest voice on the crisis would go quiet. For these atrocities against the Rohingya people to be happening on her watch blows our minds and breaks our hearts. … the violence and terror being visited on the Rohingya people are appalling atrocities and must stop. Aung San Suu Kyi's silence is starting to look a lot like assent. As Martin Luther King said: "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people." The time has long passed for her to stand up and speak out. We know that Aung San Suu Kyi has in front of her real complexities that the outside world cannot understand — but nor should we have to. The complexity of the situation in Myanmar she inherited from her father did not sway her to compromise her ideals back in 1998, nor should it now. At some point, a fragile balancing act becomes a Faustian pact. We also believe we can't direct our anger solely in her direction. That plays right into the hands of those who are carrying out the violence. Min Aung Hlaing is not a widely recognised name outside Myanmar — it should be. This man is the Commander General in Chief of the Defence Services who answers to no-one when a security threat is declared. While this in no way excuses her silence, Aung San Suu Kyi has no control, constitutional or otherwise, over his actions, and it is he who has authorised and overseen the terrorization of the Rohingya people under the guise of protecting Myanmar from terrorism. Condemning her and ignoring him is a mistake. If this horror of human rights abuses is to stop, and if the long-term conditions for resettlement of the Rohingya people are to ever occur, General Min Aung Hlaing and his military must be just as much the focus of international action and pressure as Aung San Suu Kyi and her civilian government."

"The more you see the less you know The less you find out as you go I knew much more then than I do nowNeon heart dayglo eyes A city lit by fireflies They're advertising in the skies For people like us."

"I like the sound of my own voice I didn't give anyone else a choice An intellectual tortoise Racing with your bullet train.Some people get squashed crossing the tracks Some people got high rises on their backs I'm not broke, but you can see the cracks You can make me perfect again."

"True love never can be rent But only true love can keep beauty innocent."

"I could never take a chance Of losing love to find romance In the mysterious distance Between a man and a woman."

"Would you deny for others What you demand for yourself?"

"You speak of signs and wonders But I need something other I would believe if I was able But I'm waiting on the crumbs from your table."

"Where you live should not decide Whether you live or whether you die."

"Well the heart that hurts Is a heart that beats."

"Take these shoes Click clacking down some dead end street Take these shoes And make them fit."

"Take these hands Teach them what to carry. Take these hands Don't make a fist. Take this mouth So quick to criticize Take this mouth Give it a kiss."

"Love makes strange enemies Makes love where love may please The soul and its striptease Hate brought to its knees The sky over our head We can reach it from our bed You let me in your heart And out of my head, head.Oh can't you see what love has done? Oh can't you see what love has done? Oh can't you see what love has done? What it's done to me?"

"I was born I was born to sing for you I didn't have a choice but to lift you up And sing whatever song you wanted me to. I give you back my voice From the womb my first cry, it was a joyful noise."

"I tied myself with wire To let the horses roam free Playing with the fire Until the fire played with me."

"This shitty world sometimes produces a rose The scent of it lingers and then it just goes"

"Choose your enemies carefully ‘cos they will define you Make them interesting ‘cos in some ways they will mind you They’re not there in the beginning but when your story ends Gonna last with you longer than your friend"

"Sometimes you can't make it on your own Sometimes you can't make it The best you can do is to fake it Sometimes you can't make it on your own."

"The brave people of Ukraine are fighting for their freedom — and for ours — in the face of unspeakable violence and an unjust invasion. More than 4 million people, mostly women and children, have had to flee for their lives — a population nearly the size of Ireland. World leaders must stand up and stand by Ukranians now ... those who are fighting and those who have fled ... and stand with refugees everywhere who have been forced from their homes and their lands. #StandUpForUkraine"

"I was on the outside when you said You said you needed me. I was looking at myself. I was blind, I could not see.A boy tries hard to be a man His mother takes him by the hand If he stops to think, he starts to cry. Oh why?"

"Monday morning, Eighteen years are dawning, I said "how long?""

"Started a landslide in my ego Looked from the outside to the world I left behind. In the world I left behind Wipe their eyes and then let go In the world I left behind Shed a tear and let love go."

"I try to sing this song I, I try to stand up But I can't find my feet. I, I try to speak up But only in you I'm complete."

"I can't change the world But I can change the world in me I rejoice."

"I watched the way it was The way it was when he was with us And I really don't mind Sleeping on the floor But I couldn't sleep after what I saw I wrote this letter to tell you The way I feel."

"I wish you were here I wish you were here To see what I could see To hear And I wish you were here"

"I can't believe the news today I can't close my eyes and make it go away. How long, how long must we sing this song? How long, how long? 'Cos tonight, We can be as one, tonight."

"Broken bottles under children's feet, Bodies strewn across the dead end street. But I won't heed the battle call. It puts my back up, Puts my back up against the wall.Sunday, Bloody Sunday."

"And the battle's just begun There's many lost, but tell me who has won? The trenches dug within our hearts And mothers, children, brothers, sisters Torn apart."

"Under a blood red sky A crowd has gathered in black and white, Arms entwined, the chosen few. The newspapers says, says Say it's true it's true... And we can break through. Though torn in two, We can be one."

"And so we are told this is the golden age And gold is the reason for the wars we wage Though I want to be with you, Be with you night and day. Nothing changes On New Year's Day."

"I don't know, I don't know which side I'm on. I don't know my right from left or my right from wrong. They say I'm a fool, they say I'm nothing But if I'm a fool for you oh, that's something."

"And we live by the side of the road On the side of a hill As the valleys explode Dislocated, suffocated The land grows weary of its own."

"One man come in the name of love One man come and go. One man come, he to justify One man to overthrow."

"Early morning, April four Shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride.In the name of love. Once more in the name of love. In the name of love. Once more in the name of love."