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So many came before you
The prisoners of fate
A history of bloodshed
A legacy of hate
But where will you be standing
When the battles have been won?
Inside your lonely fortress
The battles just begun

After the war
Who will you be fighting for?
After the war is over
After the fire
Is burning to its dying embers
After the war

A letter from the draft board
Put pain to all your dreams
You're just another number
In military schemes
They marched you in a uniform
You wore against your will
With lies of hope and glory
They taught you how to kill

After the war
Who will you be fighting for?
After the war is over
After the fire
Is burning to its dying embers

You thought you'd be a hero
After all that you survived
If hell was meant for heroes
Then surely you've arrived
Ah

After the war
After the war

After the war
Who will you be fighting for?
After the war
Who will you be fighting for?
After the fire
Is burning to its dying embers
After the war
				

Look around across the nation
Another league of morons marching
Banners in hand
Looking for another scapegoat
Try to take away the things they don't understand

Somewhere in the darkness
There's a voice that's crying to be heard
You feel it deep inside you
A voice that just won't be denied

Speak for yourself
Someone will hear you
Someone will listen
Speak for yourself
Who knows, you might change your world

They try to take away your freedom
They try to tell you what you can
Or what you can't hear
Don't let this moral suffocation
Make you turn out just like them
Is that what they fear?

Somewhere in the darkest night
A voice that's crying to be heard
You hear it deep inside you now
A voice that just won't be denied

Speak for yourself
Someone will hear you
Hear what you're saying
Speak for yourself
Who knows, you might change your world

They never listen to a word you say
They always turn their backs and walk away
Well, take a look at yourself now, baby
Take a look at yourself
Take a look at the things you should have done
It's up to you

Speak for yourself
Someone will hear you
Someone will listen
Speak for yourself
Someone will hear you
Out in the darkness

Speak for yourself
Someone will hear you
Someone will listen
Speak for yourself
Who knows, you might change your world
You might change your world
Speak for yourself
				

We used to stand on the corner of the street
Watching the world go by
Movin' on when the cops came along
Looking 'em in the eye

Young guys with stars in their eyes
Trying to make ends meet
Young guys with stars in their eyes
Dancin' to the beat

Running wild
We were livin' on dreams
Running wild
Nothing's what it seems
Running wild

(Holy show - show - show)

The Alley Cats on a Saturday night
A rumble without a warning
Woodbines and a bottle of wine
And no school in the morning

Hot stuff, we acted so tough
We knew how to take a heed
Paying the dues by singing the blues
And dancin' to the beat

Running wild
We were livin' on dreams
Running wild
Nothing's what it seems
Running wild
We were livin' on dreams
Running wild
Nothing's what it seems

Just like an ocean in motion
Sometimes you go too far
Then just to drop in the ocean
Crash and burn like a shooting star

Young guys with stars in their eyes
Just trying to make ends meet
Young guys with stars in their eyes
Dancin' to, dancin' to the beat

Running wild
We were livin' on dreams
Running wild
Nothing's what it seems

Running wild
We were livin' on dreams
Running wild
Nothing's what it seems
Running wild
We were livin' on dreams
Running wild
Nothing's what it seems

Running wild
We were livin' on dreams
Running wild
Nothin', nothin', nothing's what it seems
				

The time has come to talk about tomorrow
You should be a careful one tomorrow
I heard them on the radio
I saw them on the video
I don't think I can take much more

Led clones, Led clones

You've stolen from the houses of the holy
You've rolled into the kingdom of the sain
I heard you on the radio
I saw those crummy videos
I don't think I can take no more

Led clones, Led clones

Got to get it on
From the still of the night
But you're gettin' it wrong
You know it ain't right

Ooh, yeah
Ooh, yeah

I saw them on the radio
I heard them on the videos
I don't think I can take much more

Led clones
Led clones
Led clones, woh
Led clones

Led clones...
				

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The wind is up
And the sky is falling
The thunder cracks
And the sea is rolling

Wonder if we'll ever see tomorrow
Ride with our backs to the wind
Don't know if I'll make home again

Running from the storm
Running from the storm
Running from the storm
Running from the storm

The sky is black
And the wind is howling
The lightning strikes
And the sea is raging

Wonder if we'll ever see tomorrow
Turning our ships to the sun
This time there is no place to run

Running from the storm
Running from the storm
Running from the storm
Running from the storm

Running from the storm
Running from the storm
Running from the storm
Running from the storm

Running from the storm
Running from the storm
Running from the storm
Running from the storm
				

I saw you standing at the corner of the street
You look so fine
I don't care what it is your sellin'
I wanna be the next in line, aough
You're dressed to kill
You look good enough to eat
I'm telling you
There's just one thing you can't beat

This thing called love
This thing called love
Aough

That long, blond hair, those eyes of blue
Those ruby lips and legs so long, baby
You've got the goods
You're holdin' big time
There's no way you can go wrong
You knock 'em dead
When you're walking down the street
I'm telling you
There's just one thing you can't beat

This thing called love, woh
This thing called love
This thing called love
This thing called love

Lookin' for a love on a summer's night
I've got you lined up in my sights
I've been looking for a love since the break of dawn
Hey baby, come on!
Yeah!

This thing called love
This thing called love

I've been looking for a love on a summer's night
I'm loaded up, you're in my sights
Lookin' for a love since the break of day
Hey baby, what you say?
Ooh, yeah!

This thing called love
This thing called love

This thing called love
This thing called love

This thing called love
				

Hey baby, looking good to me
Hey baby, I like what I see
I'm ready, I'm ready for love
What you say, we just forget the drill
Full metal jacket, I'm shooting to kill
I'm ready, I'm ready for love

Don't you know that it's cold outside
Come on in, I'll keep you satisfied
Just like that moon up above
I'm out tonight and I'm ready for love

I'm getting ready, I'm ready for love, hooh
I'm ready, I'm ready for love
Aough!
Move over baby

Hey baby, won't you tell me your sign
What do you know, it's the same one as mine
I'm ready, I'm ready for love
You hear me knockin', but you won't let me in
Open the door honey, let the fun begin
I'm ready, I'm ready for love

You say you will, then you say you won't
Now you see it, now you don't
Just like that moon up above
It's out tonight and I'm ready for love

I'm getting ready, I'm ready for love
I'm getting ready, I'm ready for love

Every day in the week
I'm in a different city
Every day in the week
Somebody tries to hold me down

Your place or mine, honey?

Don't you know that it's cold outside
Come on in, I'll keep you satisfied
Just like that old moon up above
I'm out tonight and I'm ready, ready, ready, ready

(I'm out tonight and I'm ready for love.)
(I'm ready for love.)
(I'm out tonight and I'm ready for love.)
I'm ready for love

Ready, I'm ready for love
I'm getting ready, I'm ready for love
I'm getting ready, I'm ready for love, wooh!
I'm getting ready, I'm ready for love
Just like that moon up above
(Ready)
I'm ready for love
(I'm getting ready.)
I'm ready for love
(Ready)
I'm getting ready for love
(I'm getting ready.)
Ooh, just like that moon up above

(Ready, I'm getting ready.)
I'm getting ready for love
(Ready, I'm getting ready.)
Aough!
Hooh

(Ready, I'm getting ready.)
(Ready, I'm getting ready.)
(Ready, I'm getting ready.)
(Ready.)
				

I was born up on the North side
Where the Lagan River flows
When I came across the border
I was following my nose
Dublin city '69
There could have been no better place
There was no better time
Through the thunder and the rain
The deepest blood of emeralds
Was running through my veins

Blood of emeralds

I was down and out on Skid Row
But I held on to my pride
The darkest son of Ireland
He was standin' by my side
We would sail the stormy seas
Never looking back
We were afraid of what we'd see
Through the thunder and the rain
The deepest blood of emeralds
Was running through our veins

Some of us will win and some of us will lose
The strong will survive
Some of us will fall
Some of us won't get out of here alive

Blood of emeralds
Blood of emeralds

I was angry, I was sad
Just thinking about the times we had
I felt so lost and lonely too
What could I say, what could I do?
And after all, the time goes by
No one knows the reasons why
You lived each day like there was no tomorrow
You spent those years living on time you borrowed
And in your eyes, all I could see was sorrow

Some of us will win, some of us will lose
The strong will survive
Some of us will fall
Some of us won't get out of here alive

Blood of emeralds
Blood of emeralds
Blood of emeralds

(Blood of emeralds.)
The deepest blood of emeralds
Blood of emeralds
The deepest blood of emeralds
The deepest, deepest blood of emeralds
				

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Down from the glen came the marchin' men
With their shields and their swords
To fight the fight they believed to be right
Overthrow the overlords

To the towns where there was plenty
They brought plunder, swords and flames
When they left, the town was empty
And the children would never play again

From the graves I heard the fallen
Above the battlecry
By that bridge near the border
There was many more to die

And onward over the mountains
And out towards the sea
They come to flame the emeralds
Without it they could not leave
				

They came for him one winter's night.
Arrested, he was bound.
They said there'd been a robbery,
his pistol had been found.
They marched him to the station house,
he waited till the dawn.
And as they led him to the dock,
he knew that he'd been wronged.
You stand accused of robbery,
he heard the bailiff say.
He knew without an alibi
tomorrow's light would mourn his freedom.
Over the hills and far away,
for ten long years he'll count the days.
Over the mountains and the seas,
a prisoner's life for him there'll be.
He knew that it would cost him dear,
but yet he dare not say.
Just where he had been that fateful night,
a secret it must stay.
He had to fight back tears of rage.
His heart beat like a drum.
For with the wife of his best friend,
he'd spent his final night of freedom.
Over the hills and far away,
he swears he will return one day.
Far from the mountains and the seas,
back in her arms again he'll be.
Over the hills and far away.
Each night within his prison cell,
he looks out through the bars.
He reads the letters that she wrote.
One day he'll know the taste of freedom.
Over the hills and far away,
she prays he will return one day.
As sure as the rivers reach the seas,
back in his arms again she'll be.
Over the hills and far away,
he swears he will return one day.
As sure as the river reach the sea,
back in his arms is where she'll be.
Over the hills and far away,
she prays he will return one day.
As sure as the rivers reach the seas,
back in her arms is where he'll be.
Over the hills.
Over the hills and far away.
Over the hills.
Over the hills and far away.
				

Mama take a look at your boy
He's a military man
Mama take a look at your boy
He's crying
Mama take a look at your boy
He's a soldier
Mama take a look in his eyes
They're colder

Mama take a look at your boy
He's a military man
Mama take a look at your boy
He's dying
Mama take a look at your boy
He's fighting
Mama take a look at your boy
He's frightened

They have trained your boy to kill
And kill some day he will
They have trained your boy to die
And ask no questions why

Mama take a look at your boy
Take a look at your boy
Take a look at your boy
He's a killer, yeah

Mama take a look at your boy
Take a look at him now
Take a look at your boy
He's a soldier, he's colder, he's older, mama

Mama take a look at your boy
Obey the order
Mama take a look at your boy
Like a lamb to slaughter

They have trained your boy to kill
And kill some day he will
They have trained your boy to die
And ask no questions why

One day I will write for you a lovesong, mother
As the children say: "I love you", please hold me
And you and I, we will live our life together
Until that day when we die, I will love you, mother
I will always love you

I am writing from this war
Oh mama, I don't know what I'm fighting for
And if you see my children?
God bless them, kiss them
And tell them that I miss them
See I'm frightened in the dark
Mama, mama
The blood is ankle deep
They have trained your boy to kill
And kill someday he will
They have trained your boy to die

Papa take a look at your boy
Take a look at your boy
Take a look at your boy
He's marching
He's a soldier

Oh mama, oh mama
He's on the street
He's marching to the backbeat
				

I remember the old country
they call the emerald land.
And I remember my hometown
before the war began.
Now we're riding on a sea of rage,
the victims you have seen.
You'll never hear them sing again
The Forty Shades Of Green.
We're goin' back to the wild frontier.
Back to the wild frontier, it's calling.
Back to the wild frontier.
We're goin' back,
back to the wild frontier.
I remember my city streets
before the soldiers came.
Now armoured cars and barricades
remind us of our shame.
We are drowning in a sea of blood,
the victims you have seen.
Never more to sing again
The Forty Shades Of Green.
We're goin' back to the wild frontier.
Back to the wild frontier, it's calling.
Back to the wild frontier.
Back to the wild frontier, it's calling.
Those are the days I will remember.
Those are the days I most recall.
We count the cost of those we lost
and pray it's not in vain.
The bitter tears of all those years.
I hope we live to see those days again.
Now we're riding on a sea of rage,
the victims you have seen.
You'll never hear us sing again
The Forty Shades Of Green.
And I remember a friend of mine,
so sad now that he's gone.
They tell me I'll forget
as time goes on.
We're goin' back to the wild frontier.
Back to the wild frontier, it's calling.
Back to the wild frontier.
We're goin' back.
Back to the wild frontier.
Back to the wild frontier.
Back to the wild frontier.
Those forty shades of green are calling me back home.
Ooh, we're goin' back.
Back to the wild frontier.
I'm goin' back.
Back to the wild frontier.