Slainte Mhath (Live at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, 24th April 1990)-Marillion

[ti:Slainte Mhath (De Montfort Hall, Leicester, 24th April 1990)] [ar:Marillion] [al:The Official Bootleg Box Set - Vol 2.] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Slainte Mhath (De Montfort Hall, Leicester, 24th April 1990) - Marillion [00:49.11]A hand held over a candle in angst fuelled bravado [00:53.36] [00:55.50]A carbon trail scores a moist stretched palm [01:00.11] [01:01.69]Trapped in the indecision of another fine menu [01:06.25] [01:07.94]And you sit there [01:08.99]And ask me to tell you the story so far [01:11.93] [01:12.98]This is the story so far [01:14.95] [01:23.35]Shuffling your memories dealing your doodles in margins [01:27.66] [01:29.45]You scrawl out your poems across a beermat or two [01:33.38] [01:36.00]And when you declare the point of grave creation [01:40.33] [01:41.74]They turn round and you to tell them the story so far [01:47.04]This is the story so far [01:49.86] [01:53.57]And you listen with a tear in you eye [01:58.38] [01:59.31]To their hopes and betrayals and your only reply [02:03.45] [02:04.54]Is Slàinte Mhath [02:07.05] [02:18.08]Princes in exile raising the standard Drambuie [02:21.48] [02:24.18]Parading their anecdotes tired from old campaigns [02:28.41] [02:30.38]Holding their own last orders commanding attention [02:34.56] [02:36.11]We sit here and listen to all of the story so far [02:40.62] [02:41.71]This is the story so far [02:44.89] [02:48.18]Take me away [02:49.50] [02:51.21]Take me away [02:52.12] [02:54.24]Take me away [02:56.34] [02:57.71]Take me away [02:59.16]Take me away [03:00.67]Take me away [03:01.42] [03:02.02]Take me away [03:03.34]Take me away [03:05.96] [03:14.02]From the dream on the barbed wire at Flanders and Bilston Glen [03:17.91] [03:19.63]From a Clydeside that rusts from the tears of its broken men [03:23.53] [03:24.94]From the realisation that all we've been left behind [03:28.91] [03:30.56]Is to stand like our fathers before us in the firing line [03:35.00] [03:36.38]Waiting on the whistle to blow [03:40.04] [03:40.87]We stand here waiting on the whistle to blow [03:44.78] [03:46.13]They promised us miracles and the whistle still blows [03:51.36] [03:52.00]Broken promises but the whistle still blows [03:53.68] [03:54.48]Waiting on the wistle to blow [03:56.26] [03:58.19]We stand here waiting on the wistle to blow [04:01.19] [04:02.55]We stand here waiting on the wistle to blow