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Conor
03:41
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Conor has a dream
He wants to be a famous singer
He works at the Willow Tree
And plays there on a Friday
We take our hats off to ya
When you sing that Hallelujah Hallelujah
Conor knows the score
He knows it’s down to luck and timing
It makes him want it more
So he waits around for someday
Now everyone is calling
For that old Free Fallin’ Free Fallin’
And I was once sat on that chair
Reaching for those castles in the air
And every time he asks for my advice
I tell him to always be polite
Ignore the put downs don’t believe the hype
And you’ll do all right
Conor calls my name
And even though I don’t feel like singing
I get up on the stage
Try my best to hide the shaking
I summon the composure
And then at last it’s over it’s over
I was once sat on that chair
Reaching for those castles in the air
And every time he asks for my advice
I tell him to always be polite
Ignore the put downs don’t believe the hype
And you’ll do all right
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Gate Fever
04:23
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Can’t take it with you
Said the poet to the priest
We were playing Hold ‘Em
In the belly of the beast
Then the teacher struck the cue ball
And it made the perfect sound
Then everybody stopped
As the shadows filled the ground
Tonight I lay thinking
Of the choices that I made
And how my worst ten minutes
Put me where I am today
And I know it won’t be long now
‘til I embrace the great unknown
Is anybody out there is anybody home
I can feel that old gate fever
Coming on
I am not alone here
There’s a stranger in my room
He’s a nameless cliché
A bully and a buffoon
But when he thinks I’m sleeping
When the silence steals the night
I can hear him praying
And crying like a child
I can feel that old gate fever
Coming on
The last time I saw her
Her head bowed in shame
And all I could whisper
Is I am not afraid
But I’m afraid
I can feel that old gate fever
Coming on
Come on
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Thomas the Troll
03:48
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Thomas clocks off work on a Friday
Catches the last bus home
He keeps his head low
He’s a volcano
Ready to explode
A young woman sits beside him
She’s covered up her face
Takes out his iPhone
He sneaks a photo
And posts it to his page
Do you know
Somebody knows
The man who is otherwise known
As Thomas the Troll
He says goodnight to his mother
Then he turns out the light
Checks the router
Turns on the computer
And settles down for the night
He begins with the liberals
Preachy avant-garde
Lefty hippies radical celebrities
Part of his twisted repertoire
Do you know
Somebody knows
The man who is otherwise known
As Thomas the Troll
He’s off to buy the Mail on Sunday
And as he enters the store
He sees me smiling I’m smiling at him
He turns for the door
But now I’m right beside him
I’m holding out my tin
A small donation refugee children
Thomas puts some money in
Do you know
Somebody knows
The man who is otherwise known
As Thomas the Troll
Thomas clocks off work on a Friday
Catches the last bus home
The isolation, realisation
He died a long a time ago
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Sink Like Stones
04:19
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Can we stop talking now
Let ourselves breathe
It’s been the longest night
There’s no fight left in me
If I turn the radio on
Maybe there’ll be a sign
An old familiar song
From a happier time
If it was that easy
If we patched up the holes
We’d still run out of reasons
To keep this afloat
So we sink like stones
We sink like stones
I roll a cigarette
You roll your eyes
I make a funny face
Wait for your reply
If it was that easy
If we patched up the holes
We’d still run out of reasons
To keep this afloat
So we sink like stones
We sink like stones
Wade, at the bottom I’ll wait
Wait, at the bottom I’ll break
We sink like stones
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I am a fisherman it’s my escape
From all that is broken with this human race
I am a father and I am a son
I learned what I can and I’m passing it on
Heaven help us what have they done
If you look over these beautiful fields
You’ll bask in the beauty of all they reveal
But come a bit closer look under the soil
Where they’ve hidden their mess
Where the water it boils
Meanwhile on the golf course
A man laughs with his mates
They talk about secrets they’ve buried
And plan to do more of the same
Later he’ll sit at the table
To a meal fit for a king
And his water will come from a bottle
Sourced from the purest of springs
I finished college top of my class
Everyone said I was bound for success
But I fell in love when I turned 21
All I have now is my beautiful son
Heaven help us what have they done
We both fell sick at the turn of the year
The say I’ll be fine but for him it’s unclear
I nurse him I hold him it’s all I can do
There’s something in the water I heard on the news
Meanwhile on the golf course
A man laughs with his mates
They talk about secrets they’ve buried
Make plans to do more of the same
Later he’ll sit at the table
To a meal fit for a king
And his water will come from a bottle
Sourced from the purest of springs
What’s in the water you drink?
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You & Me Both
04:21
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I looked in to the future
100 years from now and we’re all hiding in our pods
And still we’re none the richer
Still blaming one another in the name of our true gods
The line was drawn the seed was sewn
A thousand years or more ago
It’s like my brother says
We all are guilty here
There’s too much bitterness
There’s too much holy fear
And when it all goes up in smoke
Who will be the first to choke?
You and me both
The ones who sit in power
Think we should be grateful when they pass us down their crumbs
They love it when we cower
So they feed us through their media the fear that keeps us numb
Some light relief to mask the lie
The planes go up the false flag flies
It’s like my sister says
We all are victims here
There’s too much bitterness
There’s too much holy fear
And when it all goes up in smoke
Who will be the first to choke?
You and me both
I looked in to the future
200 years from now and we’re all programmed to obey
Here comes the new world order
Where the poets and the painters of dissent are cast away
The line was drawn the seed was sewn
A thousand years or more ago
It’s like my mother says
We all are immigrants
There’s too much bitterness
There’s too much ignorance
And when it all goes up in smoke
Who will be the first to choke?
You and me both
We all are people here
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Bonfire Night
06:30
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Spent the day chopping trees and stealing tyres
From the old farmers yard
Throwing stones getting chased by the army
To the old reservoir
And the rain oh the rain
We wore like a coat of boyhood blame
We all agreed we had a built a thing of beauty
And that we all should stand guard
When it was time we lit the match and stood there waiting
With hope in our hearts
Then the blaze oh the blaze tore through the sky
A million miles high on bonfire night
We chased the girls from Malin Gardens
On to the roof of St Mary’s school
We stood on the edge pretending bravado
The fear of the fall
The fear of a kiss
Later on we heard the news 2 men were fighting
They said someone died too
We ran as fast as we could silently hoping
It was no one we knew
And the blood oh the blood
Ran like a stream into the mud
On bonfire night
We stayed up all night
Looking over the city
Until the fires had dimmed to embers and ash
And all we could hear was the sound of it sleeping
Soon it would roar soon it would blast
And so it was 81 the end of summer
A time to move on
We made a pact that we’d always stick together
No matter what lay beyond
But the days the days turned to years
Then turned to ghosts then disappeared
Like bonfire night
We chased the girls from Malin Gardens
On to the roof of St Mary’s school
We stood on the edge pretending bravado
The fear of the fall
The fear of a kiss
On bonfire night
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A rosary
And I’m hit like a train by a memory
My mother praying in the cemetery
For the boy in the old mans clothes
A photograph
People mourning in the aftermath
Scribbled on the back the epitaph
For the boy in the old mans clothes
The bluest sky
Turned to darkness then opened wide
Even god in heaven cried
For the boy in the old mans clothes
Wedding bells
A cause for celebration despite herself
And I threw my pennies in the holy well
For the boy in the old mans clothes
The memory disappears
And I think of the silence in her older years
Secrets stored away like souvenirs
For the boy in the old mans clothes
In my darkest days
She comes to visit but she never stays
Sometimes this life I would gladly trade
With the boy in the old mans clothes
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Last night I had a dream
Of Oceania
Hiding from the Thought Police
I turned to Julia
It’s all coming true she said
We’re depending on you she said
We are the dead
I awoke to find a world
Of walls and borders
And the loudest noise I heard
Was silent surrender
It’s all coming true they said
The voices inside my head
We are the dead
They’re on the Internet
They’re in your phone
They’re launching satellites
They’re in your home
Today I took a walk
By the poisoned river
An old man on the dock
Bet me a fiver
It’s all coming true he said
They’re watching you he said
We are the dead
They’re on the Internet
They’re in your phone
They’re launching satellites
They’re in your home
Tonight I pulled the plugs
And I sat in the darkness
When I realised my thoughts
Were somebody else’s
It’s all coming true they said
We’re taking control they said
You are the dead
They’re on the Internet
They’re in your phone
They’re launching satellites
They’re in your home
Last night I had a dream
Of Oceania
Most nights I have a dream
Of Oceania
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10. |
Fallen Friends
04:39
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There’s no turning back now
Because we’re half way gone
And the clear blue waters
Are resting in the sun
The land of equals
Is a land of hope
There’s no captains’ table
But we’re ready to start the show
Say goodbye begin again
We’ll raise a glass to fallen friends
Don’t cry mo grá fíor
Don’t you be scared
I’m right here beside you
Whatever when and where
For years we’d been stranded
On that lonesome shore
Now beyond golden sunsets
Behind our blackest storms
Say goodbye begin again
We’ll raise a glass to fallen friends
Fallen friends
I know your heart is heavy
But there’s no more tears to spill
And all I have to offer
Is the fact
I love you still
Say goodbye begin again
We’ll raise a glass to fallen friends
Fallen friends
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Paddy Nash Ireland
Gate Fever is the new Solo Album from Paddy Nash.
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singer-song-writer all year. A True Irish Gem! 9/10'
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'Cathartic resolution and powerful storytelling cloaked in mellifluent harmonies 4/5'
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RNR Magazine
'Nash has subtly delivered his own fanfare for the working man on this record.'
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