Canadian Geese-Damien Dempsey

[ti:Canadian Geese] [ar:Damien Dempsey] [al:It's All Good - The Best of Damien Dempsey] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Canadian Geese - Damien Dempsey [00:10.16]Na na na na na [00:14.13] [00:15.31]Na na na na na [00:19.43] [00:20.42]Down Kilbarrack road I head for the coast [00:24.38] [00:25.73]As the northern estates close in [00:28.96] [00:30.08]They're closing on me so blatantly [00:35.39] [00:36.18]A thickening of the skin [00:39.27] [00:43.75]Well the inner city folk they often spoke [00:47.69] [00:48.92]With a tongue that was more like a fist [00:52.37] [00:53.42]On the reservation six miles north [00:58.52] [00:59.22]Of the slums that some still missed [01:02.51] [01:06.93]Na na na na na [01:10.75] [01:12.06]Na na na na na [01:15.82] [01:17.34]We'd walk the train tracks [01:18.86] [01:19.80]Out to the haystacks [01:21.42] [01:22.30]As the swerved towards a greener world [01:26.07] [01:26.99]Under Baldoyle bridge the gateway ridge [01:32.08] [01:32.64]Our hay jumped dreams unfurled [01:36.40] [01:40.62]And the Belfast train nearly killed my friend Wayne [01:44.78] [01:45.71]As it sped like a bullet flying [01:48.80] [01:50.55]Carrying souls and dreams like a time machine [01:55.26]Back to sixteen ninty meantime [02:00.66] [02:03.75]Na na na na na [02:07.46] [02:08.83]Na na na na na [02:12.83] [02:14.07]Na na na na na [02:17.53] [02:19.17]Na na na na na [02:22.60] [02:24.48]On the flat of my back [02:25.49] [02:26.68]In that field by the tracks [02:28.80] [02:29.55]The Canadian geese flew by [02:33.42] [02:34.65]In my mind I up and join with them [02:38.59] [02:39.45]And we glide out to Ireland's eye [02:45.79] [02:47.99]We can be free with a little car key [02:51.74] [02:52.98]The rivers of tar can take us far [02:56.46] [02:57.86]There are friends and lovers we have yet to meet [03:03.40] [03:04.04]And tonight they are watching the same stars [03:08.70] [03:16.37]I was born to wander and I'm [03:21.32] [03:22.33]Not afraid to be free now [03:25.53] [03:26.64]My heart grows far fonder for these streets [03:32.12] [03:32.65]When your face I don't see now [03:35.99] [03:36.85]Why don't you drop everything tonight [03:42.35] [03:42.95]And we can ride to the sea now [03:46.17] [03:47.35]I'll always return but tell me [03:52.10] [03:53.39]Do you dare to be free [03:55.37] [03:55.90]Can we snatch victory [03:57.71] [03:58.29]From the jaws of these streets now [04:01.47] [04:03.66]When these walls they close in [04:06.22]And your heart turns to tin [04:08.78]Let's escape to the sea now [04:11.72] [04:14.02]I can see every face [04:16.39]Broken ghosts of this place [04:18.77] [04:19.28]And they hand us the key now [04:22.24] [04:25.65]Na na na na na [04:29.41] [04:30.74]Na na na na na [04:34.63] [04:35.97]Na na na na na [04:40.00] [04:41.19]Na na na na na