Life In A Tenement Square Lyrics

Life In A Tenement Square lyrics

Well I kissed the day, I was on my way 
From those cold gray blocks of stone 
For seventeen years of squalor filled tears 
A time now with innocence lost 
As the sun split the room 
With its rays filled with gloom 
Turnin' all hope to despair 
And the only thing left 
Was to flee from the nest 
That was Life In A Tenement Square:

I remember the song where the rats sang along 
And danced for their daily bread 
While the damp washed the walls 
That were twenty feet tall 
Not a child in the house was fed 
On the porter filled face 
Of the men left a trace 
Of the coin they had already spent 
While our mothers asked God 
What was Hell ever for 
When you lived in a Tenement Square

Grab what's left of the coal 
From the ol' cubbyhole 
These cinders need more to be a fire 
While the ghosts of the soldiers 
That lived there before us 
Laugh with their guns by their side 
I hear them laugh, with their guns by their side

Now politicians they dwell 
In that forgotten Hell 
Our misery's been turned into mews 
Where the fat of the land 
Now hog, hand-in-hand 
A crime now of life was ever true 
As the sun split the room 
With its rays filled with gloom 
Turnin' all hope to despair 
And the only thing left 
Was to flee from the nest 
That was Life In A Tenement Square...