Debhín Risteard Mac Séain

Musician, cook, meadmaker, loremaster extraordinaire

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

don't it always seem to go
that you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
they paved paradise
put up a parking lot

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

i be, i be, i be, i be over shit
the world don't give a fuck about your loneliness

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

sound, sound
one for a fiver
two for a pound

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

cut the cake
gimme a little piece
a little lovin' on the side
cut the cake
i need a little piece
just to keep me satisfied

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

i used to think that god
made the mixer, pick and hod
so that paddy might know hell above the ground
i've had gangers big and tough
tell me tear it all out rough
when i was building up and tearing england down

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

i have only one burning desire
let me stand next to your fire

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

i want to taste the flesh of your fruit

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

choose something like a star

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

they went to sea in a sieve, they did
in a sieve they went to sea
in spite of all their friends could say,
on a winter's morn,
on a stormy day,
in a sieve they went to sea

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

a hungry feeling
came o'er me stealing
and the mice were squealing in my prison cell
and the old triangle
went jingle jangle
all along the banks of the royal canal

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

up to the well for a pail of water
washin it around for to make some tae
she fell over
i fell under
all of the game was above her knee
madam, i'm a darlin, die ro dither o
madam, i'm a darlin, die ro day

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

floating in the vacuum
with no purpose
not a one
why, in the night sky, are the lights hung?

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

i think about the thing i've done
i know it wasn't right
they'll bury flo tomorrow, but
they're hanging me tonight

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

down to gehenna
or up to the throne
he travels fastest
who travels alone

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

if i just stay a while here staring at the sea
and the waves break ever closer
ever near to me
i will lay down in the sand and let the ocean lead
carry me to innisfree
like pollen on the breeze

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

turn the cheek, hug a bastard
let them past and take the gaff back to plaster
leave all that you own
you'll run faster

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

I heard a siren from the docks
Saw a train set the night on fire
I smelled the spring on the smoky wind
Dirty old town, dirty old town

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

O, don't you want to go to that gospel feast
That promised land where all is peace?

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

Wide-eyed leaver
Always going

[Debhín Risteard Mac Séain @an_fear_sin]

O bury me not on the lone prairie
Where the coyotes howl and the wind blows free
Where not a soul will care for me
O bury me not on the lone prairie