Flogging Molly - Life In A Tenement Square Lyrics
Well I kissed the day, I was on my wayFrom those cold gray blocks of stoneFor seventeen years of squalor filled tearsA time now with innocence lostAs the sun split the roomWith its rays filled with gloomTurnin' all hope to despairAnd the only thing leftWas to flee from the nestThat was Life In A Tenement Square:I remember the song where the rats sang alongAnd danced for their daily breadWhile the damp washed the wallsThat were twenty feet tallNot a child in the house was fedOn the porter filled faceOf the men left a traceOf the coin they had already spentWhile our mothers asked GodWhat was Hell ever forWhen you lived in a Tenement SquareGrab what's left of the coalFrom the ol' cubbyholeThese cinders need more to be a fireWhile the ghosts of the soldiersThat lived there before usLaugh with their guns by their sideI hear them laugh, with their guns by their sideNow politicians they dwellIn that forgotten HellOur misery's been turned into mewsWhere the fat of the landNow hog, hand-in-handA crime now of life was ever trueAs the sun split the roomWith its rays filled with gloomTurnin' all hope to despairAnd the only thing leftWas to flee from the nestThat was Life In A Tenement Square...
