When Irish Eyes Are Burning-The Ike Reilly Assassination

[ti:When Irish Eyes Are Burning] [ar:The Ike Reilly Assassination] [al:We Belong To The Staggering Evening] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]When Irish Eyes Are Burning - The Ike Reilly Assassination [00:23.63]I belong to the staggering evening [00:25.69] [00:26.40]I belong to the sweltering nights [00:28.45] [00:29.08]I belong to the girl that's leaving [00:32.07]But all she wants to do is fight tonight [00:34.26] [00:35.08]Twist into my Irish eyes [00:37.50]I get beatings with the loudest cries [00:40.16] [00:40.74]When you ever gonna realize [00:43.58]All we're gonna do fight tonight [00:45.82] [00:46.41]It doesn't matter if you're seventeen [00:48.65] [00:49.25]It doesn't matter if you're twenty-one [00:51.32] [00:52.11]It doesn't matter if you're thirty-three [00:54.24] [00:54.95]Forgive me baby Jesus what I done [00:57.12] [00:57.80]I went to see the Violent Femmes [01:00.13]With my friend John and his girlfriend [01:03.57]But right before the show began [01:06.02]He mixed it up with a girl named Tank [01:09.30]Now I believe Tank was lesbian [01:11.85]And somebody cracks Mama let's be friends [01:14.96]She's Irish too and musical [01:17.29] [01:17.91]Almost giant and beautiful [01:20.06] [01:20.81]She threw the first punch it was the last [01:23.66]Knocked John out cold flat on his back [01:26.00] [01:26.52]Well I'm agree she's like six foot ten [01:28.73] [01:29.38]Got on his shoulders and I watched the Femmes [01:31.82]When Irish eyes are burnin' bright [01:34.94]Drink your women run for your life [01:37.83]A deadly shot can ruin the night [01:40.67]When Irish eyes are burnin' [01:45.17] [01:46.75]Some time ago I went to a show [01:49.10]With a Serbian girl that I still know [01:51.96]It was Friday night and as the show let out [01:54.80]I was rolling all over around on the ground [01:57.72] [01:58.34]Under the lights of the marquee [02:00.72]At the Liberty Theater I was skinnin' my knees [02:03.66]I was breakin' my nose on the fist of a Croat [02:06.84]Smashin' my balls on the boot of one too [02:09.68]Losing my teeth but I didn't really know it [02:12.39]I was bleedin' on someone and dreamin' of you [02:14.75] [02:18.48]Just as the tide was beginning to turn [02:20.73]I saw the face of Kevin Moriarty [02:24.03] [02:24.55]Matt and Dragonbreath and Eugene Graham [02:27.22]Brian Quinn and Brendan O'Shea [02:30.44]Chuck Sweeney and John F Quigley [02:32.96]Were clean and sober but goddamn mean [02:35.87]Christopher Farley and James Ford Murphy [02:38.76]Makin' me laugh when I look for my teeth [02:41.45]When Irish eyes are burnin' bright [02:44.60]Drink your women run for your life [02:47.45]A deadly shot can rule the night [02:50.35]When Irish eyes are burnin' [02:55.19] [02:56.55]It doesn't matter if you're seventeen [02:58.67] [02:59.19]It doesn't matter if you're twenty-one [03:01.34] [03:02.08]It doesn't matter if you're thirty-three [03:04.50] [03:05.02]Forgive me baby Jesus what I done [03:07.15] [03:07.83]Forgive me baby Jesus what I done [03:10.22] [03:22.47]I belong to the staggering evening [03:24.69] [03:25.28]I belong to the sweltering nights [03:27.42] [03:28.05]I belong to the girl that's leaving [03:31.03]But all we're gonna do is fight tonight [03:33.13] [03:33.85]Twist into my Irish eyes [03:36.49]I get beatings with the loudest cries [03:39.01] [03:39.60]When you ever gonna realize [03:42.04] [03:42.57]We belong to the sweltering nights