
Date of issue: 08.09.1991
Record label: Rhino
Song language: English
The Other Side |
Where John paints in Caribbean colours |
And Tyrone boys dream of loving on the strand |
Flowers heaped in gesture on the courthouse steps in Kerry |
And we trampled on the outstretched hand |
Roman posters on the wall outside the graveyard |
«No Divorce» is all they say |
I saw a little sister of Mercy |
Invoke the wrath of God on polling day |
Oh the Island, where Tyrone boys dream of loving on the strand |
Oh the Island, where we trampled on the outstretched hand |
The lady sends squaddies on the water |
Geordie don’t be afraid to die |
In blackened face he dreams of his darling bairns and hinny |
On the watchtower overlooking aughnacloy |
In Long Kesh the Tyrone Boys are dreaming |
Of making love upon the strand some day |
On the news came a mid-Atlantic accent |
Plastic bullet has taken Julie Livingstone away |
The King he came to see his people |
And he took a soldier by the hand |
Eyes averted from the Gloucester Diamond |
To comfort those who occupy the land |
High above the clouds a promised heaven |
On the street a confused and homeless child |
While men in black declare a social order |
Frightened women sail to the other side |
All the young ones are leaving the Island |
Out the door, down the steps, around the side |
Unwanted they file through departure lounges |
Like deportees dispersing far and wide |
In the distance there’s cricket in Cloughjordan |
The gentle clack of croquet on the lawn |
As our children shackled by illegal status |
Hold their heads down behind the Brooklyn wall |
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