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    I love you, I love you, I told you I do
    It's all I've ever felt, I've never felt so well
    And if you don't know it, I wrote you this tune
    To be here loving you when I'm in the tomb
    I've eddied the heart now from Dublin to Paris
    And if there was sunshine, it was never on me
    So close the rain, so pronounced is the pain
    Yeah

    Well, I love you, imagine a world without you
    It's only ever you, I only think of you
    And if it's a blessing, I want it for you
    If I must have a future, I want it with you
    System in our hearts, you only had it before
    You only opened the window, never opened up the door
    And I love you, I love you, told you I do

    Selling genocide and half-cut pride I understand
    I had to be there from the start, I had to be the fucking man
    It was a clamber of a life I sucked the ring off every hand
    Had 'em plying me with drink, even met with their demands
    When the cherries lined up I kept the spoilings for myself
    Till I had 30 ways of dying looking at me from the shelf
    A cloud-parting smile I had, a real good child I was
    But this island's run by sharks with children's bones stuck in their jaws
    Now the morning's filled with cokeys tryna talk you through it all
    Is their mammy Fine Gael and is their daddy Fianna Fáil?
    And they say they love the land but they don't feel it go to waste
    Put a mirror to the youth and they will only see their face
    Makes flowers read like broadsheets, "every young man wants to die"
    Say it to the man who profits and the bastard walks by
    And the bastard walks by, and the passer walks by
    Say it to him fifty times and still the bastard won't cry
    Would I lie?

    I love you, I love you, I told you I do
    It's all I've ever felt, I've never felt so well
    And if you don't know it, I wrote you this tune
    To be here lovin' you when I'm in the tomb
    System in our hearts, you only had it before
    Echo, echo, echo, the lights they go
    The lights they go, the lights they go
    Echo, echo

    Selling genocide and half-cut pride I understand
    I had to be there from the start I had to be the fucking man
    It was a clamber of a life, I sucked the ring off every hand
    Had 'em plying me with drink, even met with their demands
    And I loved ye like a penny loves the pocket of a priest
    And I'll love you till the grass around my gravestone is deceased
    And I'm heading for the cokeys, I will tell them 'bout it all
    About the gall of Fine Gael and the fail of Fianna Fáil
    And now the flowers read like broadsheets, every young man wants to die
    Say it to the man who profits and the bastard walks by
    And the bastard walks by, and the passer walks by
    Say it to him fifty times and still the bastard won't cry
    Would I lie?

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