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[00:18.40]Rollin' down to Dublin Town
[00:22.47]Comin' from the Northside, headin' Southbound
[00:26.76]The glare of the city, you can see it in the sky
[00:30.75]See it in the faces when I'm passing them by
[00:35.48]Dublin Town
[00:36.97]Bright lights all around
[00:38.85]All the different sounds
[00:41.03]Concrete surrounds
[00:43.14]You need a few pounds or there's nothing to do
[00:46.98]No muns, no fun in the foggy dew
[00:51.48]I be signing on, off Gardiner street
[00:55.56]See all the people struggling just to make ends meet
[00:59.85]The more unfortunate ones be begging at your feet
[01:03.83]We'll have to send a warning to the socially elite
[01:07.92]And I repeat, if you keep a people down
[01:11.56]In any old town
[01:13.87]Or country
[01:15.15]They'll rise don't you see
[01:17.04]It's the will to survive
[01:19.05]That keeps them alive
[01:21.34]And they're starting to see through all the lies
[01:23.95]That they've contrived, so I say to you all
[01:27.34]To educate yourself, become well read
[01:31.36]And start to use the head
[01:33.52]Contemplate your own situation
[01:36.93]Find the true enemy and stop banging heads
[01:41.25]With the victims of its greed
[01:43.35]Am I getting too serious?
[01:45.16]Well this was meant to be a love song
[01:48.36]Well it is a love song because I love my people
[02:33.34]Not so long ago, back in the good old days
[02:36.76]I dreamed of Irish laws and Irish ways
[02:39.93]And saw that the present days weren't so good
[02:44.26]And the only thing I could think about them that was good
[02:48.06]Was most of the people that surrounded me
[02:50.86]But still I call them good old days because of the craic
[02:54.46]That we had
[02:55.97]We refused to stay sad
[02:57.85]If you have your own around you and also possess your health
[03:01.73]At the end of the day you'll discover that that is the most
[03:05.14]Essential wealth
[03:06.62]I throw my mind back
[03:08.34]And recall the days I used to have the craic
[03:11.34]Back in Dublin town
[03:13.65]Getting down to the Irish and Jamaican sounds
[03:17.76]listenin' and learning about life
[03:21.15]Helping me make it through the strife
[03:23.75]Suckin on a big fat spliff full of rocky
[03:27.53]Flagon in my hand
[03:29.45]Be makin me feel grand
[03:31.84]Discussing this and that
[03:33.95]And thinking about the now
[03:36.06]Thinking about the future, making myself a vow
[03:40.55]I wasn't going to waste my life
[03:42.94]But I was going to live and love
[03:45.25]Do the best that I could
[03:47.83]I was going to bring some music to the people
[03:50.79]and tell them that they were equal
[03:52.71]But some of them wouldn't listen
[03:54.83]And this is what is pissin'
[03:56.55]The rest of us off
[03:58.06]You would wanna start listening to us, you would
[04:00.86]Coz to you we aren't going to be good forever
[04:05.06]Yeh maybe even here, in the Dublin Town
[04:09.76]Things could get turned upside down.
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