First and foremost…

The LYRICS

Glass and Mirrors

statues in front of me

They look to say

when will I be yours

Perhaps another day

And do you want me really

What was it for

Staring out a window, isn’t walking through a door

I see glass and I see mirrors

Frames and masks

From your great beginning

In summers past

And I see mine from kicking

When I ran till I was sick

Was it May or April

Memories Trick

And high above up the steeple

A crowd of shouting people,

Saying you look well you look well

And they’re standing in that way

You might nearly hear them say

We can tell, we can tell, we can tell

And there’s Light in the sound

And the shutters coming down

shed my skin

And begin and begin

And theres not extra time

No subs from the line

Referee, can’t you see, can’t you see

I see glass and mirrors

Strings on wood and skin tied set to play

But I am scared to touch them, still today

And the xylophone with a heart shaped rock

In taunts and laughs at me

And a flower in a tin bucket

Turns to see

Paper empty, thank God it’s done

The Screens have left me chargless, at my thumb

And a break in play has taught me

How the sun is wrong

The poor lad had left his hat at home

When he’d begun

To Leave my home

Waiting on the day

Waiting on the drums

Waiting for a train that’ll never come

It’s pointless to remain

Within the place you know

The people and their faces know your show

It’s hard enough to stay

I don’t wanna go

Hold me on your arms and leave me alone

When she was in the way

I was in the wrong

I was in the wrong

Going over the words we said

I wouldn’t go, I wouldn’t go

She asked me what was inside my head

Said I wouldn’t know I wouldn’t know

I can see the case is closing

So I’ll need a rag I can put my clothes in

Oh no

Oh no

It broke me to leave my home

I loved her in the end

I loved her at the start

I miss her in my bed and in my heart

And when I read a joke

That she would like to hear

There’s mayhem in the space between my ears

Going over the words we said

I wouldn’t go, I wouldn’t go

She asked me what was inside my head

Said I wouldn’t know know I wouldn’t know

Tired of catching my train of thought

There’s a tear in the tickets and clothes I bought

But I can see the gate is closing

There’s a rip in the rag that I put my clothes in

Oh no

Oh no

It broke me to leave my home

Donegal Hill

The Broken mirror, On The Donegal hill

One side it is empty and it’s broken still

I can’t reflect upon on the space that you’d fill

In The broken mirror on the Donegal hill

Did this cracked mirror leave a curse at our door

Or bounce a the light around our room before it hit the floor

I can’t believe my heart, my heads had it killed

our broken mirror sitting smiling on our Donegal hill

And at the loch I see the room where we layed

The pub we drank,

The day we sank

As my football team played

And we were waiting on our friends wedding day

The broken mirror was the first to say

I love you more than anyone that I have ever known

You are for me and I’m for you,

That’s what the mirrors shown

You are my person

You’re a single flower someones grown for me

I miss our summer, winter, autumn spring and days before

There’s not a season or a reason to me anymore

You are the flower

That I’ve Locked away from me

The broken mirror outside Donegal town

It saw us smiling and us coming around

Waking from a dream to the life that we found

The broken mirror that’s weeping outside Donegal Town

The broken mirror, by the castle, up in Donegal

It it still broken as I am,

Both shattered from a fall

I am without you and I don’t feel as tall

The broken mirror by the castle up in OUR Donegal

And at the loch I see the room where we layed

The pub we drank,

The day we sank

As my football team played

And we were waiting on our friends wedding day

The broken mirror was the first to say

And at the loch I see the room where we layed

The pub we drank,

The day we sank

As my football team played

And we were waiting on our friends wedding day

The broken mirror was the first to say

I love you more than anyone that I have ever known

You are for me and I’m for you,

That’s what the mirrors shown

You are my person

You’re a single flower someones grown for me

I miss our summer, winter, autumn spring and days before

There’s not a season or a reason to me anymore

You are the flower

That I’ve Locked away from me

(Instrumental)

I love you more than anyone that I have ever known

You are for me and I’m for you,

That’s what the mirrors shown

You are my person

You’re a single flower someones grown for me

I miss our summer, winter, autumn spring and days before

There’s not a season or a reason to me anymore

You are the flower

That I’ve Locked away from me

And I don’t have the key

Wokingham

Under arches through the park

there is a Fire in Wokingham

Sat in fancy dress, and I confess

That I’m in Love I am.

An Sure let me know, if you and your sound fella fall apart

I’ll jump any height across the world to go and catch your heart

Go and catch your heard

Ah God this can’t be real i didn’t know you’d make me dizzy

Oh I bet you’re so in love with him, he’s rich or something Is he?

And the sun today is only there reflecting from your eyes

Well God I knew that you were pretty but to die is a surprise

Half your boot was broken stuck there sadly weeping by the tree

I lay down with you and hummed the tune of isle of Inissfree

Then You said you liked the sound of Frank

We share a favourite ode

We both delighted one for my baby

and one more for the road

Under arches through the park

there is a Fire in Wokingham

Sat in fancy dress, and I confess

That I’m in Love I am.

An Sure let me know, if you and your sound fella fall apart

I’ll jump any height across the world to go and catch your heart

Go and catch your heart

For you I tidy up my face I cover it with foam

And I don’t think that much of saving cash

You don’t think much of home

See the shadows as they pass the day

Our arms and eyes they link

We should always be together

But we really shouldn’t drink

Surely not I’d think, it can’t be lost,

Were blueprints drawn out dizzy

I refuse you to hear you’ll Love him til the end, he’s special Is he?

How can science prove we’ve never met before this holy hour

It’s a struggle when you’re making deals

To please your higher power

Under arches through the park

there is a Fire in Wokingham

Sat in fancy dress, and I confess

That I’m in Love I am.

An Sure let me know, if you and your sound fella fall apart

I’ll jump any height across the world to go and catch your heart

Go and catch your heart

A Goddess and a mortal, Just pretending in the soak

And i beg you as the mortal, come with me leave Tir na Nog

For I feel a glistening magic like you’ve answered to me why

I’m a very lucky boy that you fell to me from the sky

And I’ve learnt about your funny ways

And found out what you’d rather

Like I don’t think much of Shakespeare

You don’t think much of your father

Ah God Save me from this silly game

save me from this crying shame

I’m not able, I’m not stable,

I’m not calm and I’m not tame,

Stone cold sober, day is over

I’m in love but who’s to blame

The arches through the park

there is a Fire in Wokingham

Sat in fancy dress, and I confess

That I’m in Love I am.

An Sure let me know, if you and your sound fella fall apart

I’ll jump any height across the world to go and catch your heart

Go and catch your heard

Man Complete

I need to find the earth

I but I’m not stuck in space

I’m ghostly gouling selfish fooling all over the fucking place

So grab my frown

Grab my feet

To find the earth

To find the soil of

man complete

Man complete

man complete

Man complete

I need to find the floor

An island dry Will do

I’ve lost the patience with myself

I’ve lost the day to do be do be do

So grab my hand

Grab my seat

And sit me down

On the soil of man complete

I need to find the green

I need to find the play

My arse should be on the grass

If I’m sleeping through the day

Please lift my back-onto a sheet

And carry me down, to the town of man complete

Rose of Marylebone

Up from the bridge close to where I live

I was frightened so

One word from her lips I heard was enough for me to know

And here smile

And her eyes

And her smile

One drink, I began to think, she not alone tonight

Holding the hand of another man

And I began to fight

Away from the beers

And the tears

And the beers

She lives in the nice part of town

No money do I own

But I’d sell my van

To be her man

For the rose of Marylebone

Pulling tape on a winters day

South of Wandsworth town

In a room sat on barstools

But there’s no one else around

Just her and her smile in my mind

Start of the next day

I passed the trains

I pressed my horn to call

She got in

Grabbed the day from the bin

And we drove the road and talked

Same tonight

Drive you home

She said alright

And as soon as I drive her to town

And drop her off at home

I’ll ask and I’ll talk

From a drink or a walk

With the rose of Marylebone

Drove to her door

Just one minute

There’s things I need to say

‘Thanks for the ride’ then she said goodbye

And I had to drive away

Drove for hours

Hit my head with my hand

And I beat my face of the wheel

A fool driving on is own

In my van, away I ran from the rose of Marylebone

Night passed and at last

I had my chance once more

I told her I’d wished that I’d said my piece

When I dropped her home before

She recalled, in her gut, butterflies

Said after I left her in town and she was sat alone

She did yearn for my return straight back to Marylebone

She lives in the nice part of town

No money do I own

But I’d sell my van for the rose of Marylebone

Clones Fireman

Working on the trains everyday

Chucking coal in the frame

Clones to Bundouran and Belfast some days, back home again

On the lanes by the shore

He’s a young boy no more

He hasn’t played a game since down in 34

And his eyes are full of grit and smoke

You’d never guess a fireman from the words he spoke

And the ballads of home

From his heart through his throat

Outside the drums and whistles play the town

Across the way he sees a smile that matches his frown

And he walks very slowly to an angel he’s bound

Til now he’s been lost but he sees her he’s found

And they talked for hours and said she can’t stay

And he asked her why

she says she’s moving away

His asks where too

She says to England in May

And suddenly his souls young again

He’s found his best fiend

And she’s the only thing he’ll dream

Until the end

He stands out at the shore

Life’s not the same as before

as long as she’s across the sea

He’ll dream and dream forever more

Years go by and older he grows

The gardens grey without his rose

Living in a land where all by he stepped on a boat and chose

Letters back and fourth

Over five years aren’t enough

The man who’s built of steal

Without his girl he isn’t tough

And like a saint he calls over the sea

Calling Chris across to make a life

For him and for me

He flips a coin in Holyhead

It landed tails to go

Down the Birmingham

A middle ground

With a suitcase and a coat

And suddenly his souls young again

He’s found his best fiend

And she’s the only thing he’ll dream

Until the end

They stand out at the shore

Life’s not the same as before as long as she’s across the sea

with him forever more

And they danced all night singing

‘Don’t fence me in’

Under city lights a life and a dream to begin

And the streets aren’t quiet and the roads aren’t thin

And the air is thick like the smoke from the coal

The Brooke’s are green like the face of the soil

And her smiles the same she’s not changed in a while

50 years down the line

He’s collecting me from school on time

Every Monday night, a dinner, talking of the rare auld times

Nights in pubs with mulligans and talking of the scene

McGuigan’s titles, and times of the boys in green

And she’s bickering and moaning

But you still see that smile

He’s still the boy from clones

Travelled hundreds of miles

Left his home for her hand

Through the lines and the isles

The fight and the pain

And the wind and the trials

The salt and the sea

And the cuts and the wounds

Paying for life

With a brick or a broom

Six days a week

For a 10 by 8 rooms

The darker days

The lights in the fumes

Lightyears from trains

Mountains from seas

You still see the wind through the flocks and the trees

The fields where you’re locked

And the lochs where you’re

On the trains every day

Chucking coal in the frame

And life’s not the same

On the tracks by the shore

They’re not young anymore

She’s aching

He’s breaking

And his heart is sore

And his eyes are full of grit and smoke

You know it’s the end from the way she spoke

And she sleeps as he sings her song

His heart through his throat

And suddenly his souls old again

He’s lost his best fiend

And she’s the only thing he’ll dream

Until the end

He stands out at the shore

Life’s not the same as before as long as she’s across the sea

He’ll dream and dream forever more

Magpie with the mullet

Down in Westport harbour,

There’s a rake of things to do

There’s a shop,

John Lennon’s island

And there’s time to think of you

There’s the lighthouse and a boxing club, and an island sunset too

There’s a magpie with a mullet

And he talks of only you

I went to Westport harbour for

It called me in a dream

I’m battered from the town before

My head is spittin steam

And The wheels and I am spinning

from the girl of all my dreams

When the magpie with a mullet tapped upon

The wet wind screen

Down in Westport harbour,

There’s a rake of things to do

There’s a shop,

John Lennon’s island

And there’s time to think of you

There’s the lighthouse and a boxing club, and an island sunset too

There’s a magpie with a mullet

And he talks of only you

I went sit and eat a bacon sandwich by the sea

When the magpie with a mullet

landed down and spoke to me

Now don’t you miss your love he said

She’d love it here with you I said

You’re right fuck off but also that’s a lovely mullet too

I thought I saw an icream hut

Let the sugar solve it all

But I found it was a Westport cruises advertising stall

The magpie came right back to me with his mullet firing tall

Said ‘you miss her don’t you pal, she’d be the thing to solve it all’

Down in Westport harbour,

There’s a rake of things to do

There’s a shop,

John Lennon’s island

And there’s time to think of you

There’s the lighthouse and a boxing club, and an island sunset too

There’s a magpie with a mullet

And he talks of only you

I went to buy tobacco in the local hardware store

Ah the paintings in the window tugged and pulled me to the floor

‘God she’d love them’ said the magpie from the minutes there before

Take your mullet and your chat of her

way out that Siopa door

I took me clothes off quickly for to swim out in the bay

When the Magpie put his boots upon the side to join the play

‘God Didn’t she love swimming so’ the magpie he did say

Ah fuck off now magpie leave me,

for my heart is broke today

Down in Westport harbour,

There’s a rake of things to do

There’s a shop,

John Lennon’s island

And there’s time to think of you

There’s the lighthouse and a boxing club, and an island sunset too

There’s a magpie with a mullet

And he talks of only you

I bought a jar from yonder bar

And gazed upon the view

Oh the beauty of it brought a tear

And then I bought a few

Then the magpie put his whiskey down, reminded me the curse

She’s the shining light and greatest sight

Within the universe

I sat there with the magpie,

begged him please to leave my grid

And the magpie smiled and did agree

At least I thought he did

Then he looked back at my heavy brow, said

‘I don’t take the piss’

I’m a magpie, not a squirrel

I will say it as it is’

Down in Westport harbour,

There’s a rake of things to do

There’s a shop,

John Lennon’s island

And there’s time to think of you

There’s the lighthouse and a boxing club, and an island sunset too

There’s a magpie with a mullet

And he talks of only you

I couldn’t stand the pain no more

So back to sea to drown

I put stones inside my pockets for to pull my body down

And the magpie with the mullet loaded all the stones he could

Said you were foolish thinking life without that girl could e’r be good

I’ll sleep upon the rocks tonight

The magpie helped me sink

And before he did it was a while

since last I caught a wink

He’s right you know, the way to go

Is down within the blue

Westport harbour,

mullet magpie

and the thoughts and dreams of you

Down in Westport harbour,

There’s a rake of things to do

There’s a shop,

John Lennon’s island

And there’s time to think of you

There’s the lighthouse and a boxing club, and an island sunset too

There’s a magpie with a mullet

And he talks of only you

Even the moon belongs to you

Shove came to push on my mourning

I was broken before I was yawning

And Before any light hit my eyes

We danced in the western ocean

A picture appeared of us smiling

Drinking stout and my mind began dialling

Back to you, back to then

Oh I’d die for for time traveler’s potion

All of the street signs called your name

All of the lights, they’ve lost their flame

stars, Shepherds Bush, the road, the view

Even the Moon Belong to you

Bees and the birds give civil smiles

The Sun it won’t kiss me for a while

You know the earth, she’s there for you

Even the moon belongs to you

I’m sad that the French place is gone

It’s a corner of time where my heart does belong

You by the light of a candle

It’s not a thought I find easy to handle

And the roads they don’t all the lead to Rome

They’re to you, and to me, roads to you are to home

And the airports deserted,

but how can that be,

it just seems so

when you’re not there flying with me

All of the street signs called your name

All of the lights, they’ve lost their flame

stars, Shepherds Bush, the road, the view

Even the Moon Belong to you

Bees and the birds give civil smiles

The Sun it won’t kiss me for a while

You know the earth, she’s there for you

Even the moon belongs to you

Oh I’d like to escape to the sky

But your roots start down here and go up where I’d fly

If I dug to the coast

Found a boat with a Sail

I’d be captured by you

You’re my own Grainne Whale

I suppose I just miss you is all

And it’s killed me to lock up my hanfnot to call

And belongings of mine are a chair, ball and spoon

And yours are my world and my stars and the moon

All of the street signs called your name

All of the lights, they’ve lost their flame

stars, Shepherds Bush, the road, the view

Even the Moon Belong to you

Bees and the birds give civil smiles

The Sun it won’t kiss me for a while

You know the earth, she’s there for you

Even the moon belongs to you