Slainte Mhath (Live)-Marillion

[ti:Slainte Mhath] [ar:Marillion] [al:THE THIEVING MAGPIE (LA GAZZA LADRA)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Slainte Mhath (Live) - Marillion [00:52.71]A hand held over a candle in angst fuelled bravado [00:56.77] [00:58.95]A carbon trail scores a moist stretched palm [01:02.89] [01:05.52]Trapped in the indecision of another fine menu [01:09.49] [01:11.63]And you sit there and ask me to tell you the story so far [01:16.07] [01:17.30]This is the story so far [01:19.47] [01:28.25]Shuffling your memories dealing your doodles in margins [01:31.96] [01:34.67]You scrawl out your poems across a beermat or two [01:38.19] [01:41.09]And when you declare the point of grave creation [01:44.78] [01:47.51]They turn round and you to tell them the story so far [01:52.24] [01:52.96]This is the story so far [01:55.62] [02:00.21]And you listen with a tear in you eye [02:05.06] [02:06.30]To their hopes and betrayals and your only reply [02:10.38] [02:11.86]Is Slàinte Mhath [02:13.69] [02:19.61]Princes in exile raising the standard Drambuie [02:23.08] [02:25.88]Parading their anecdotes tired from old campaigns [02:29.67] [02:32.27]Holding their own last orders commanding attention [02:35.92] [02:38.52]We sit here and listen to all of the story so far [02:43.91]This is the story so far [02:46.65] [02:51.38]Take it away [02:52.47] [02:53.97]Take it away [02:55.02] [02:58.80]Take it away [02:59.67] [03:01.51]Take me away [03:02.48] [03:03.47]Take me away [03:04.75]Take me away [03:06.14]Take me away [03:07.42]Take me away [03:08.42] [03:19.07]From the dream on the barbed wire at Flanders and Bilston Glen [03:23.32] [03:25.07]From a Clydeside that rusts from the tears of its broken men [03:29.35] [03:31.03]From the realisation that all we've been left behind [03:34.55] [03:37.01]Is to stand like our fathers before us in the firing line [03:40.72] [03:43.52]Waiting on the whistle to blow [03:46.71] [03:48.51]We stand here waiting on the whistle to blow [03:52.81] [03:54.51]They promised us miracles and the whistle still blows [03:58.54] [04:00.32]Broken promises but the whistle still blows [04:04.97] [04:07.31]Waiting on the wistle to blow [04:10.65] [04:12.06]We stand here waiting on the wistle to blow [04:16.20] [04:19.97]We stand here waiting on the wistle to blow