Must it take a life for hateful eyes   To glisten once again   Five hundred years like gelignite   Have blown us all to hell      What savior rests while on his cross we die   Forgotten freedom burns   Has the shepherd led his lambs astray   To the bigot and the gun      Must it take a life for hateful eyes   To glisten once again   'Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess   Singin' drunken lullabies      I watch and stare as Roisin's eyes   Turn a darker shade of red   And the bullet with this sniper lie   In their bloody gutless cell      Must we starve on crumbs from long ago   Through bars these men made steel   Is it a great or little thing we fought   Knelt the conscience blessed to kill      Must it take a life for hateful eyes   To glisten once again   'Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess   Singin' drunken lullabies      Ah, but maybe it's the way we're taught   Or but maybe it's the way we fought   But a smile never grins without tears to begin   For each kiss is a cry we all lost      Though there is nothing left to gain   But for the banshee that stole the grave   'Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess   Singin' drunken lullabies      I sit in and dwell on faces past   Like memories seem to fade   No color left but black and white   And soon will all turn gray      But may these shadows rise to walk again   With lessons truly learnt   When the blossom flowers in each our hearts   Shall beat a new found flame      Must it take a life for hateful eyes   To glisten once again   'Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess   Singin' drunken lullabies      'Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess   Singin' drunken lullabies   Singin' drunken lullabies