Another song is born letra

I looked over my shoulder but not for too long,
It's no place to look if you're writing a song,
Some songs grow ancient and live through the years,
While others die off and dry up like tears.

You open the cloak and lift up a veil,
The hammer is raised to drive home a nail,
The flesh is torn open, the bone is revealed,
Wounds that fester seldom get healed.

Chorus:
Songs written for love and written for gain,
Some make you laugh, soothe a bad pain,
Songs have a heart, a body, a soul,
You lay one to rest and another song is born.

While we rescue banks and Royal Kilmanham Halls,
Hell on this earth means nothing at all,
My hands are all withered and I cannot breathe,
The nightmare of indifference to suffering and need.

Chorus

The elite on the plinth maintain status quo,
Marble and granite their movements are slow,
The silk stays unruffled as the eyebrows are raised,
Satin and mohair the good lord be praised.

Chorus

Christy Moore - Letras

• 1913 Massacre
• A Pair of Brown Eyes
• A Stitch In Time
• Aisling
• All For The Roses
• All I Remember
• Allende
• America, you are not the world
• Another song is born
• Barrowland
• Beeswing
• Black Is The Colour
• Cabaret
• Changes
• Cliffs Of Dooneen
• Companeros
• Continental Céilídh
• Delirium Tremens
• Don't Forget Your Shovel
• El Salvador
• Fairytale of New York
• Follow Me Up To Carlow
• Green Island
• Joxer Goes to Stuttgart
• Lakes Of Ponchartrain
• Least We Can Do
• Lisdoonvarna
• Lovely Young One
• Luke Kelly
• Matty
• Messenger Boy
• Missing You
• Nancy Spain
• Natives
• Only Our Rivers Run Free
• Ordinary Man
• Raggle Taggle Gipsy
• Remember the Brave Ones
• Ride On
• Sonny
• Spancil Hill
• The City Of Chicago
• The Craic Was Ninety In The Isle Of Man
• The Curragh Of Kildare
• The Reel In The Flickering Light
• The Streets Of London
• The Time Has Come
• The Two Conneeleys
• The well below the valley
• Viva La Quinta Brigada
• Voyage
• Yellow Triangle