Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Margaret Reed O'Shaughnessy, artist - Kevin Devine. Album song Kenny O'Brien & the O'Douls, in the genre Иностранная авторская песня
Date of issue: 27.02.2020
Record label: Bad Timing Records and Many Hats Distribution
Song language: English
Margaret Reed O'Shaughnessy |
Margaret Reed O' Shaughnessy |
Thank Christ I’m not your enemy |
There’s no struggler loves ya more than me |
Oh, Margaret Reed O' Shaughnessy |
Margaret ground against her knuckles |
To hold her temper at her teeth |
Funerals are triggers in an Irish family |
And daddy was a lion |
But he also was a louse |
She swallowed twice to |
Clear the bile from her mouth |
The house, awash with sycophants |
Instantly enshrined |
The parish priest, the butcher’s boy |
The football player’s wife |
All busy painting angel wings |
Complicit in the lie |
That’s the way we Irish do it when we die |
Riddles wrapped in rosary |
Clover grenades |
Fools who suffer mightily |
As our high Saint Sinead |
We celebrate our loneliness |
Our combustible rage |
«He made us this way» |
Not that Margaret wasn’t her own complicated layer cake |
Educator/activist — |
Republican gone straight |
Traded Weather Underground |
For some peacetime in the shade |
But in her heart of hearts |
She is as she was made |
When she shaved her head |
At Trinity and toured BDSM |
Clinical, athletic sex — |
Detached, competitive |
The discipline appealed to her |
The flogging and the rules |
But the emptiness roared back when she was through |
A missile wrapped in rosary |
A clover grenade |
Fools were suffered mightily |
She shot sharp like Sinead |
And bristled at her loneliness |
Her combustible rage |
«They made me this way» |
Margaret Reed O' Shaughnessy |
Thank Christ I’m not your enemy |
There’s no struggler lovers ya more than me |
Oh, Margaret Reed O' Shaughnessy |
Margaret learned to make her fate |
When Uncle James lisped with a wink |
«If you’re not tall enough to touch the bar |
You’re not tall enough to drink!» |
She jumped and smacked it with her palm |
The day that she turned six; |
She’s wrestled Jameson’s and Guinness ever since |
(And tonight she’s losing |
Tonight she’s getting her ass kicked) |
My missile wrapped in rosary |
My clover grenade |
Fools picked apart her sanity |
She collapsed like Sinead |
Encircled in her loneliness |
Her combustible rage |
«Who made me this way?» |
Margaret Reed O' Shaughnessy |
Thank Christ I’m not your enemy |
There’s no struggler loves ya more than me |
Oh, Margaret Reed O' Shaughnessy |
Oh, Margaret Reed O' Shaughnessy |
Oh, Margaret Reed O' Shaughnessy |