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It’s four in the mornin’
Battered and numb
A loaded room, an empty gun
I whistle a tune, I heard years before
The clock started tickin’
Where did the time go
I danced to the mornin’
She called out my name
The wind was a howlin’
And down came the rain
Her arms they caressed me
Sweet was her brow
She opened my eyes
To banish the doubt
Wash me down in all of your joy
But don’t drag me through this again
I’ve heard all your sad songs I can hear
It’s in with the whiskey and out with the gin
I’ve heard all your sad songs I can hear
It’s another day older
In These Exiled Years
The dew on the ground
Blankets the face
Cold was the night
Gone her embrace
For your land of the free
Now prisons me
To rot in this jail
Of lost liberty
Wash me down in all of your joy
But don’t drag me through this again
I’ve heard all your sad songs I can hear
It’s in with the whiskey and out with the gin
I’ve heard all your sad songs I can hear
It’s another day older
In These Exiled Years
Walk away, watch me as I wave
One foot here, but sure the other’s in the grave
Walk away, walk away
I’ve heard all your sad songs I can hear
It’s in with the whiskey and out with the gin
I’ve heard all your sad songs I can hear
It’s another day older
In These Exiled Years
Battered and numb
A loaded room, an empty gun
I whistle a tune, I heard years before
The clock started tickin’
Where did the time go
I danced to the mornin’
She called out my name
The wind was a howlin’
And down came the rain
Her arms they caressed me
Sweet was her brow
She opened my eyes
To banish the doubt
Wash me down in all of your joy
But don’t drag me through this again
I’ve heard all your sad songs I can hear
It’s in with the whiskey and out with the gin
I’ve heard all your sad songs I can hear
It’s another day older
In These Exiled Years
The dew on the ground
Blankets the face
Cold was the night
Gone her embrace
For your land of the free
Now prisons me
To rot in this jail
Of lost liberty
Wash me down in all of your joy
But don’t drag me through this again
I’ve heard all your sad songs I can hear
It’s in with the whiskey and out with the gin
I’ve heard all your sad songs I can hear
It’s another day older
In These Exiled Years
Walk away, watch me as I wave
One foot here, but sure the other’s in the grave
Walk away, walk away
I’ve heard all your sad songs I can hear
It’s in with the whiskey and out with the gin
I’ve heard all your sad songs I can hear
It’s another day older
In These Exiled Years
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
Track duration: 05:18
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I LOVE FLOGGING MOLLY!
very powerful and moving song, the first song i ever heard by flogging molly, and still my favourite
And to make it even more clear;
"For your land of the free, Now prisons me, To rot in this jail, Of lost liberty" -> land of the free is America, but it wasn't no land of the free at all for Dave. It was lost liberty, it wasn't that beautiful as it was said to be. They pretty much prisonned him, cause he didn't get a greencard for a long long time.
Anyways this song is about his homesickness and lonliness while he was basically exiled here in America.