Wipe the blood from your lip with the flesh of your hand
There's no thorn in the side left to grow
So let's cherish the names that were lost for an age
With the rue now the supper must go
Where traditions they blend lives a home on the mend
The grass glistens now for all fights
So let's sever the shame we have come to reclaim
With the water's retreat feel the shore
Pre-Chorus 1
When the red rose pales lay a thousand graves many more
Though the ghost still haunts for the day we've come to live for
Don't look back, for what's dead now is saved
The exiled are home where their souls are kept safe
Take me back on the crest of a wave
No more tears for your paddy's lament
No more tears
No more paddy's
Lament
verse 2
Rip the greed from his heart, there's no sorrow tonight
For now once paddy's dreams sleep divine
Where the silence ya hear is the prosper we share
The only blade is a razor sharp smile
Pre-Chorus 2
Still the church bell rings to collect the sins that still roam
But the only thing lost is the pain of nothing once more
Don't look back, for what's dead now is saved
The exiled are home where their souls are kept safe
Take me back on the crest of a wave
No more tears for your paddy's lament
No more tears
No more paddy's
Lament
Interlude
verse 3
Grab the leaf of the branch from the tree in its ground
Where the roots claimed the earth many toiled
To a land that now stands under no one's command
And her beauty let no man destroy
So remember the gun and the damage it's done
The last drop has been spilled for you and I
Let there be no despair for the rule we once shared
Brush the tear from the eye that still shines
Pre-Chorus 1
When the red rose pales lay a thousand graves many more
Though the ghost still haunts for the day we've come to live for
Don't look back, for what's dead now is saved
The exiled are home where their souls are kept safe
Take me back on the crest of a wave
No more tears for your paddy's lament
No more tears
No more paddy's
Lament
Don't look back, for what's dead now is saved
The exiled are home where their souls are kept safe
Take me back on the crest of a wave
No more tears for your paddy's lament
No more tears
No more paddy's
Lament