Frank Turner - Love Ire & Song lyrics

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Well a teacher of mine once told me<br />

That life was just a list of disappoints and defeats<br />

And you could only do your best, <br />

And I said "That's a fucking cop-out, you're just washed up and your tired, <br />

And when I get to your age I won't be such a coward"<br />

But these day I sit at home, known to shout at my TV<br />

And Punk Rock didn't live up to what I hoped that it could be<br />

And all the things that I believed with all my heart when I was young<br />

Are just coasters for beers and clean surfaces for drugs<br />

And I packed all my pamphlets with my bibles at the back of the shelf<br />

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Well it was bad enough the feeling, and the first time it hit<br />

When you realised your parents had let the world all go to shit<br />

And that the values and ideals for which many had fought and died<br />

Had been killed off in the committees and left to die by the wayside<br />

But it was worse when we turned to the kids on the left<br />

And got let down again by some poor excuse for protest<br />

Yeah by idiot fucking hippies in 50 different factions<br />

Who are locked inside some kind of 60's battle re-enactment<br />

And I hung-up my banner in disgust and I head for the door<br />

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Oh but once we were young, and we were crass enough to care<br />

But I guess you live and learn, we won't make that mistake again, no<br />

Oh but surely just for one day, we could fight and we could win<br />

And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible<br />

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Well we've been a good few hours drinking<br />

So I'm going to say what everyone's thinking<br />

If we're stuck on this ship and it's sinking<br />

Then we might as well have a parade<br />

Cos if it's still going to hurt in the morning<br />

And a better plan's set to get forming<br />

Then where's the harm spending an evening<br />

In manning the old barricades, so come on old friends to the streets<br />

Let's be 1905 but not 1917, let's be heroes, <br />

Let's be martyrs, let's be radical thinkers<br />

Who never have to test drive the least of their dreams<br />

Let's divide up the world into the damned and safe<br />

And then ride to the valleys like the old life brigade<br />

And straighten our backs and we won't be afraid<br />

And they'll celebrate our deaths with a national parade<br />

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So come on let's be young, let's be crass enough to care<br />

Let's refuse to live and learn, let's make all our mistakes again yes<br />

And then darling, just for one day, we can fight and we can win<br />

And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible<br />

Leave the mourning the to the morning<br />

Yeah pain can be killed<br />

With aspirin tablets and vitamin pills<br />

But memories of hope, and glorious defeat<br />

Are a little bit harder to beat<br />

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