Mary Black Tearing Up The Town Lyrics

Tearing Up The Town Lyrics

A shimmer or a shudder, a sentence or a shriek

What other languages do we speak?

I don't know what the answer is, but fair dues to you

A local lack of wisdom never stopped your being true



A drummer in the basement

A rhythm - roll at each hand's turn

Finding one thing you can believe in

Could seem like so much work

You've heard the cry before

Up and away we shall go

Tearing up the town

Tearing up the town



Hurry to dinner, son, the heat is on

Your daddy's in the oven and your mamma, she's gone

She went down to the clinic, but the news was not good

They told her it was nothing much, but she'd had quite enough



The ruins of a household, a loverboy who sits and stares

"No, No" she cried, "I can't take it, I'm gonna go out
somewhere"

You've heard the cry before

Up and away she goes

She's tearing up the town

Tearing up the town

Tearing up the town



Now we're really with it, comrades, now we're set

Ben Dolan's right behind us with the castanets

It took a lot of pleading, but he came here after all

And Ben's the very boy to take us right to where we want



Hey, look at them couples linking through the rainy streets

Someplace to be in love, the best there'll ever be

Oh sister sadness, get yourself behind me

Oh brother badness, why must you deny me?

It doesn't matter where I've gone

I'm on the run like everyone

Tearing up the town

Tearing up the town

We're tearing up the town