It's Saturday night on the Lower East Side. I'm sittin' here contemplatin' suicide. I just got mugged down in Tompkins Square. When a skinny-assed junkie stuck a bayonet in my ear.
[Incomprehensible]. . Paddy came down to Voodoo City. Met a lady on Bourbon Street. She was dark, she was beautiful. Swept that boy right off his feet.
Wait until dawn. The streets will be cool and clean again. Then it's time to go downstairs, meet the man. He'll be sittin' in a limo with a gun in his hand.
I got a job in a band called Black 47. I was doin' nothin' special after 11. Oh we learned some tunes and wrote some songs. And we bought ourselves a drum machine to keep the beat strong.
The strobe was pulsin' in the after-hours, the booze was flowin' free. When I first saw you across that room on down by Houston Street. You were wrapped around a wiseguy for all the world to see.
Oh Maureen. . Maureen got married to a sanitation worker. She's livin' out in Brooklyn with her mother in law. And when her old man's sleepin'. Maureen comes creepin' down to the local bar.
Oh Maria, I'm so sorry I wrecked your wedding. You've just gotta believe me. But just the thought of you takin' your clothes off for that jerk. Oh, it got me drinkin'.
Oh, oh, oh, oh. . Chuckie said, "I don't know what's goin' on. I'm down on my knees and I'm ah uh losin' it. Been up and down this New York town. Lookin' for a break just a fair shake of it".
Oh, it's 6 o'clock and it's time to rock. And me head is beatin' like a drum. In the cold gray light, ah I feel like shite. And I can't remember last night's fun.
Marchin' down O'Connell Street with the Starry Plough on high. There goes the Citizen Army with their fists raised in the sky. Leading them is a mighty man with a mad rage in his eye.
Six months out on the road. Don't know if I'm ever goin' home. Out there in the middle of America. Out of my head, feelin' hysterical. . Wishin' I was back in New York.
I remember your eyes from the 12th of July. When the sirens were screamin' and the flames lit the sky. And you held me so tight, thought you'd never let go.
Born on a black Monday, me mother screamin' curses. Me old lad in the pub losin' money on the horses. Me granny kicked in the door said, "Get a job, you bastard".
Danny came over to old New York. From Bandon town in the county Cork. He got a room on the avenue in Woodside Queens. And a job off the books doin' demolition.
I remember you back in 1992. When they were putting us down. Trying to tramp us into the ground. You exploded like a flame in the night. With a righteous indignation.
Standing in your hallway, kiss your angel hair. Hear your old grandmother recite her immigrant prayer. She knew what you had to do, she'd probably kill you first, first.
My name is Bobby Sands MP. Born in the city of Belfast. Divided by religion I grew up fast. I was stabbed and I was spat upon. My family run out of its home.
Carlita is waiting down on C & 9th. In mantilla and lace and her lover's knife. Cries out for revenge, she is silent like a stone. Beautiful in her widow's weeds.
Mister Frankie Diamond was my best friend. We were partners in a business down on C and 7th. Nothin' ever got this good brother down. He was a real live wire in an electric town.
Everything is still not a chicken not a body. Just an awful sicken silence roarin' in my brain. And the fog of death deepens and lies upon the land. An ould wan rolls over on her back.