Flight Of The Earls-Brier

[ti:Flight Of The Earls] [ar:Brier] [al:Forever Ireland] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Flight Of The Earls - Brier [00:18.81]I can hear the bells of dublin in this lonely waiting room [00:26.72] [00:27.42]And the paper boys are singing in the rain [00:33.73] [00:35.84]Not too long before they take us to the airport and the noise [00:44.53]To get on board a trans atlantic plane [00:51.24] [00:53.21]We've got nothing left to stay for we no more left to say [01:01.03] [01:01.60]And there isn't any work for us to do [01:07.99] [01:10.32]So farewell you boys and girls [01:13.70] [01:14.46]Another bloody flight of earls [01:18.92]Our best asset is our best export too [01:24.58] [01:27.63]It's not murder fear nor famine that makes us leave this time [01:36.05]We're not going to join macalpines fusiliers [01:42.73] [01:44.76]We've got brains and we've got vision we've got education too [01:53.20]But we just can't throw away these precious years [01:59.85] [02:01.86]So we walk the streets of london and the streets of baltimore [02:09.83] [02:10.48]And we meet at night in several boston bars [02:16.64] [02:18.94]We're the leaders of the future though we're far away from home [02:26.77] [02:27.47]And we dream of you beneath the irish stars [02:33.46] [02:36.25]As we look on ellis island and the lady in the bay [02:44.11] [02:44.62]And manhatten turns to face another sunday [02:51.44] [02:53.33]We just want to want to doing to bring us all back home [03:01.81]As we look forward to another monday [03:08.45] [03:10.41]Because it's not the work that scares us we don't mind an honest job [03:18.38] [03:18.92]And we know things will get better once again [03:25.18] [03:27.65]So a thousand times adieu we've got bono and u 2 [03:35.67] [03:36.35]All we're missing is the guinness and the rain [03:42.68] [03:44.83]So switch off your new computers for the writing's on the wall [03:53.25]We're leaving as our fathers did before [03:59.52] [04:01.94]Take a look at dublin airport or the boat that leaves north wall [04:10.51]There'll be no youth unemployment anymore [04:16.99] [04:19.14]Because we're over here in queensland and in parts of new south wales [04:27.67]We're on the seas the airways and the trains [04:34.27] [04:36.23]But if we see better days those big airplanes go both ways [04:44.80]And we'll all be coming back to you again