Lyrics (These are the lyrics for the original songs on Iron Rations. The lyrics for the traditional songs can by looked up on many great sites on the internet. We suggest you google the title and check out these great sites)
You’re a young man with a face that is too old You say beside me on that bright November cold You told me stories of a stupid fight and you don’t know the reason why How many times did you pass the blame away? I tried to tell you in that parking lot that day You didn’t hear my words, you couldn’t believe that you’re the cause of your misery Chorus: Now you sound like him it makes no sense You gave up knowing that you had a chance You chose a different path it makes no sense With a heart made of gold and a head full of stone
There use to be a time that you gave a damn I never thought that you’d become this fucking man Now what show for all that you’ve done? A broken house, a lonely son When will you ever hear the words that I write? Does it make sense to you because I lost my fight I see you stand there with that bottle in your hand Will you reclaim the time you had? Chorus I hear your sitting in a stupid prison cell I read you letter and I had to laugh out loud And what will you do with the time you now have? Blame others for you lousy hand Now he sits there thinking why’d you do away But you won’t tell him the truth today If you want to show him how to be a man Do something with the time at hand Chorus
As I lie dying here tonight I see your face and softly say your name As I lie dying here tonight the words I say to you are all in vain As I lie dying here tonight I see the puzzled look upon your face As I lie dying here tonight I have no more time left to explain Chorus: Now I turn away from you, you never quite got it Now I close my eyes to see the brightness of tomorrow And I try to die I try to die As I lie dying here tonight you find comfort seeing my last breath As I lie dying here tonight you ask forgiveness and second chance As I lie dying here tonight the words I want to say to you are gone As I lie dying here tonight you whisper in my ear that I was wrong Chorus As I lie dying here tonight I see what lies before me is a scam As I lie dying here tonight I never thought I’d hate another man As I lie dying here tonight the hell that I am living never ends Since I’m not dying here tonight, you can say you tried to understand Chorus
The memories he hoped to leave in a now abandoned land would stay with him like the bloodshed on your hands Freedom is all his people wanted deep inside An outstretched peaceful hand that you denied Years ago he watched him family starve and die You turned a blind eye, pretend there was no suffering or crying Forced to leave the hills of his enchanted youth A coffin ship lead his way to more dispair Chorus: No work for him in a new land that was supposed to be a friend Outside were signs that said "Do not apply" The lowest class was how he was perceived With pride he’d die so his children would be free at last He built the roads and worked the rails for all he had Two pence a day was the bounty he would keep To sing a song with friends and even drink with foes To laugh with them and speak of endless possibilities That he would find in a land he proudly called him own To rise above, become the strongest force our nation’s known In dreams he sailed back to the land where he was born A second chance at freedom’s all his young eyes ever yearned Chorus
With a mullet the size of Manhattan and a wallet the size of a twat He walks into the hole that he calls his favorite spot With coke heads in the bathroom and crack heads doing shots There’s something about a plastic cup that makes it his favorite spot Chorus: Wisdom is served up at the bar by ex-cons Tequila fueled sermons never caused no harm Mighty Mouse starts another fight with Nazi’s on him arm It’s no different then any night, no need to be alarmed They’re betting at the dart board, the pool table’s been replaced There’s people who walk in there in such a messed up state I serve stale beer and cigarettes, the ice is even hot I often wonder to myself why this is his favorite spot Chorus The regular’s wife wants another straw so she can stay awake The day lady’s giving blow jobs in the car parked by the gate They’re fighting in the parking lot, the tranny thinks he’s hot I think I just found out why this is his favorite spot Chorus I look into the mirror and I know it’s time to go The twenty bucks I made tonight certainly says it so There are a few friends I made here that I will miss a lot Who knows one day I may even make this my favorite spot Chorus
You say I’ll regret but today I feel none, I don’t see any coming too soon The time that I spent hoping you’d understand well I see that I’ve been such a fool For once I’m a man standing all on my own, won’t be pushed down again by you The first memory I had was a three and then six no more memories I need of you I see your mistakes that I will not make for no more in your shadow I stand Our face is the same but my mind it is sane, you are shallow, forgotten and frail I’ll see you one day of that I am sure. We will meet up together in hell You will try to embrace but I’ll give you my back and visit the saint you know well No more will I play your torturous games it’s a freedom I have never felt I finally at last have kicked your fat ass away from my children and home At peace I will be not again will I see I am far from your madness at last But I’ll kneel at your grave and fondly I’ll say, Fuck you, you bastard, Farewell
Grab another whiskey and walk through the smoke filled room All my friends around me and still I have nothing to prove Now I see the circles we speak and the visions we held They are great reminders of stories that we use to tell Forming a connection with people that you don’t know Trying to create a masterpiece of how we would fail Drink another beer and light up a stale cigarette Leave it all behind you, left would there, with no regrets Chorus: And I will say these words today The time to remember is not over yet Never get lost in familiar places You have to move forward and write a new song Walk into the same bar that we did so many times Unfamiliar faces surround me, I try to hide Sit there in the corner and try to blend in with the wall Feeling like the old man that sits at the back bar alone So I grab another whiskey and walk through the smoke once again Thinking of the times I would share this drink with friends Now the circle’s broken all I have are visions to hold Stories I’ll remember, it’s time for new stories to tell Chorus
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