Saint Saviour

Our little army boy
is coming home from B.F.P.O.
I've a bunch of purple flowers
to decorate a mammy's hero
Mourning in the aerodrome
The weather warme...

Show  show us how words go
You are the golden you are the youth
Know  know this is a new low
This is the truth don't you know
All this time I've been ...

Waking up preoccupied
Sour-faced and weary-eyed
Imma take a moment, just take my time
Gotta psych myself up just to go outside
Why's everyone here so ...

I remember when we were skin and bone, tough and cruel
but bruises brown and fade away
trinkets in a coat pocket stolen from kids at school
burned a h...

I've made considerable mistakes
Tried to be someone else
I've smoothed the creases from my face
Fought a war for myself
I could say that I was sorry
W...

Summer lays in field and fern
There's no return from what you learn
Leaves behind a keener burn
I'll drink to you tonight
Intravenous  intravenous
Com...

Let's go out with a bang
Steal a car  let the sirens sing
You keep your keys by your side
Like you said  you're just here
For the ride
And you couldn'...

Running down to the water
It's a way to make sense of the day
There's a ghost in the harbour
Telling tales of the years swept away
That she sent to sh...

Sisters in threes  pilgrims from overseas
Borrowed belief  garlands and bilva leaves
On hands and knees  crawl to a saintly scene
Crazy to me  I don't...

I've been thinking about you today
I've been working out what you would want me to say
Put the words in an order that works
Leave out the sharp ones t...

I remember when we were skin and bone, tough and cruel
But bruises brown and fade away         Trinkets in a coat pocket stolen from kids at school
Bu...