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Flogging Molly — Requiem For A Dying Song
Album: Float
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Released: 2008
Length: 3:31
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There's a government whip cracked across your back
Where the order of the day is don't listen, attack
See the blood run down in your bushwacked town
Revolution is the gimmick of a jokerless clown
Another volley's just the ammo for the taxman's gun

Talk, don't talk if you've nothing to say
Walk, don't walk if your feet don't know the way

In requiem for a dying song
Hear the shimmy and the shake from a futile war
With the sun that lights the day
Brings the darkness and the prize of another great shame

But with you, my love
With you, my love
With you, I will return
In requiem for a dying song

Grab the barrel by the face, shoot the order, release
Shove the bullet in your pocket, turn away and retreat
See the terror in the eye of a bloodshot child
With only rubble in his belly and the promise of lies
Operation liberation, tell me you can decide

Talk, don't talk if you've nothing to say
Walk, don't walk if your feet don't know the way

In requiem for a dying song
Hear the shimmy and the shake from a futile war
With the sun that lights the day
Brings the darkness and the prize of another great shame

But with you, my love
With you, my love
With you, I will return
In requiem for a dying song

Agony from every corner on every street
Ignite their loss of self with bitterness, explode
Explode

There's a government whip cracked across your back
Where the order of the day is don't listen, attack
Ah, talk, don't talk if you've nothing to say
Walk, don't walk if your feet don't know the way

In requiem for a dying song
Hear the shimmy and the shake from a futile war
With the sun that lights the day
Brings the darkness and the prize of another great shame

But with you, my love
With you, my love
With you, I will return
In requiem for a dying song
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 shmuelman wrote:
I've tried very hard to dig this stuff, but I find it extremely painful too. Some more than others, but especially the Dropkick Murphys.
 
Poacher wrote:
Is it just me that hears 'celtic pub band swill' like this and has to mute it? 

My worst hell would be to have to attend a Pogues gig for enternity. . .



 
 
Well, thank goodness your hell probably won't happen, unless you embrace it, fix it in your mind, and give whatever powers out there an insight into what freaks you out, so they'll know what to use to break you. (Not gonna mention my aversion to harmonicas...) {#Lol}
Personally, I love the passion. The Ramones had it, The Clash had it.... I think this song speaks volumes about life in general, and not necessarily the music of our time.

I wish Bill had followed this set with "The Last DJ" by Tom Petty...
I've tried very hard to dig this stuff, but I find it extremely painful too. Some more than others, but especially the Dropkick Murphys.
 
Poacher wrote:
Is it just me that hears 'celtic pub band swill' like this and has to mute it? 

My worst hell would be to have to attend a Pogues gig for enternity. . .



 


Irish music can't be wrong. One more Kilkenny over here.
 Poacher wrote:
Is it just me that hears 'celtic pub band swill' like this and has to mute it? 

My worst hell would be to have to attend a Pogues gig for enternity. . .



 

It may not be just you - but it certainly isn't me. "Another Guinness over here!"

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Now we see the violence inherent in the system!
Is it just me that hears 'celtic pub band swill' like this and has to mute it? 

My worst hell would be to have to attend a Pogues gig for enternity. . .



 Quote: lawman wrote: I love a girl who drinks pints of Guinness...
 
Quote: Me, too. So I married her and her friend, too. Long story...{#Cheesygrin}

Hmm, I've been married to this Guinness drinking girl for 0.4 centuries - now you tell me I've gotta marry her friend too?

 WonderLizard wrote:

"O come all ye faithful/Joyful and triumphant"

Oh, no...does this mean that they're merely derivative and have no talent? {#Wink}

  
Yes, this may sound like many other songs; it's a traditional Irish/Celtic-based melody.  Some of you may have heard of that genre - it's been around for a few hundred years.

 mandolin wrote:
...all this time i though this was 'requiem for a dinosaur'...
 
hah me too.

 kaybee wrote:
"We fired our guns and the British kept a comin
There wasn't quite as many as there was a while ago'"

 
"O come all ye faithful/Joyful and triumphant"

Oh, no...does this mean that they're merely derivative and have no talent? {#Wink}

You would know I just happen to be wearing my Flogging Molly T-Shirt at this very moment.
Smooooooth transition away from the boss...........
...all this time i though this was 'requiem for a dinosaur'...
"Flogging Molly". Sounds like a euphemism for...
They just played a fantastic set in Austin, at ACL. In the rain. "Looks like we brought the Irish weather with us," Dave quipped. A moshpit in the mud up front, Celtic dancing around the back. One of those shows.
 crockydile wrote:
Me, too. So I married her and her friend, too. Long story...{#Cheesygrin}
 
Aw, man, that's a story I want to hear.  Over a pint, maybe?

Heh...nice irony this following Springsteen's Radio Nowhere...
 kaybee wrote:
"We fired our guns and the British kept a comin
There wasn't quite as many as there was a while ago'"

 

Yep!  My thoughts exactly!
Bill, what about putting on some Roaring Jack one of these days?
"We fired our guns and the British kept a comin
There wasn't quite as many as there was a while ago'"

 fredriley wrote:
The Pogues meet The Levellers. Nice, driving stuff. Can't fault the lyrics either.
 
Nice analysis. {#Clap}
 lawman wrote:
I love a girl who drinks pints of Guinness...
 
Me, too. So I married her and her friend, too. Long story...{#Cheesygrin}

I like the mollies. But not this song.
Besides it's way too harsh for this set.

I love a girl who drinks pints of Guinness...
You just got to be kidding me...
Didn't realize Les Claypool was fronting the Pogues these days.
one vote for playing WAY more Flogging Molly
Truly annoying to me... ruined a nice, long, cozy RP buzz. :(
I have faith it is just a blip in a long day of RP loveliness.

The Pogues meet The Levellers. Nice, driving stuff. Can't fault the lyrics either.
Mmm, this song makes me thirsty.
Monkey's all-out favourite band; nice to hear it here on RP instead of our truck!

OY OY OY!