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Skinty Fia

by Fontaines D.C.

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1.
(in ár gCroíthe) Gone is the day, gone is the night, gone is the day She defines the only answer And I never had the time She defines the only reason For feeling All in all is all we tailor And they always have the best And she defines the only reason For feeling Gone is the day, gone is the night, gone is the day She defines the only answer And I never had the time She defines the only reason For feeling All in all is all we tailor And they always have the best And she defines the only reason For feeling Gone is the day, gone is the night, gone is the day It’s gone It’s gone It’s gone It’s gone It’s gone She defines the only answer And I never had the time She defines the only answer to feeling All in all is all we tailor And they always had the best And she defines the only reason For feeling Gone is the day, gone is the night, gone is the day It’s gone It’s gone It’s gone It’s gone
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Big Shot 04:13
You’ve been through the war But you’ve nothing to show I travelled to space Found the moon too small And home is a pin Rusting through a map I go there to pray Do my resting at mass Everybody gets a big shot baby Everybody gets a big shot lately Everybody gets a big shot baby You choose to show when you know No-one’s watching how you spread Empty scum, forget their name Nothing scratches off your blame I’ve been leaving it all I’ve been living it all I’ve been leaving it all I’ve been living it all I’ve been leaving it all I’ve been living it all I’ve been leaving it all Everybody gets a big shot baby Everybody gets a big shot lately Everybody gets Everybody gets
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How cold love is How cold love is They sit in their room They all consume They fall in their bed They wanna go dead They sit in their room They all consume They fall in their bed They wanna go dead How cold love is My my I’ve been so entwined And the feeling’s coming for the millionth time And the answer is so sweet And the days they just seem to follow me My my (my my) I’ve been so entwined (been so entwined) And the feeling’s coming with the finish line And the anti, is so cold So cold So cold They sit in their room They all consume They fall in their bed They wanna go dead They sit in their room They all consume They fall in their bed They shouldn’t have said How cold love is
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Do do do La la la My friend Sally says she knows you’ve My friend Sally says she knows ya got a funny point of view got a funny point of you Says you’ve got a way with murder Says you got away with murder Maybe one time maybe two Maybe one time maybe two Something happens in the morning When I can’t see those failing eyes I can’t find a good word for ya Does it come as a surprise? I Don’t think We’d rhyme I will wear you down in time I will hurt you I’ll desert you I am Jackie down the line Said did Sally ‘bout a future Before you bored of her as well If all you want is entertainment If you can’t have it you make hell Don’t make no odds for ye To be told yeah Don’t make no odds for ye To be told yeah I don’t think We’d rhyme I will wear you down in time I will hurt you, I’ll desert you I am Jackie down the line I don’t think We’d rhyme I will make your secrets mine I will hate ye I’ll debase ye I am Jackie down the line Do do do La la la So come on down to Sally’s boneyard See her spirit in decline See the handsome mourners crying They hawked a beating heart for a sturdy spine, yeah What good is happiness to me if I’ve to wield it carefully? For care I’ll always come up short It’s only right I don’t think we’d rhyme I will wear you down in time I will hurt ye I’ll desert ye I’m one Jackeen of a line I don’t think we’d rhyme I will take up all your time I will chew ye I’ll go through ye I am Jackie down the line I don’t think we’d rhyme I will make your secrets mine I will hate ye I’ll debase ye I am Jackie down the line And I will stone ye I’ll alone ye I am Jackie down the line If I can make you I can break you I am Jackie down the line I am Jackie down the line (ooh shalala) Do do do La la la
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Bloomsday 04:30
Saw the city hall In flames I suppose it doesn’t do as much these days You put on your coat And smile Saddest one I've seen for a country mile Brought it down the road Quicksmart There’s always fuckin’ rain and it’s always dark When you were at the gate Soaked through Let’s not say a word if it isn’t true Bloomsday Cordoned off the rest Too young Looking for a thing no do-er’s done We won’t find it here my love Drinking with the tourists and fighting in front of them Oh to be young Once more I know all the lines lived it all before When you were at the gate soaked through Never said a word that wasn’t true Bloomsday
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Baby come on get stoned get stoned Get inside it inside it inside it inside Get along get along get alone get alone Heard about the week on the Dalymount seat yeah Baby come on ‘fore the going gets gone Heard you lied to the Major Won’t be long Well I wish upon a wedding for a picture in the star When they knock for ya don’t forget who you are Skinty Fia Baby come on whose side are you on? I don’t wanna see the queen I already sing her song While they’re snuffing out hopes and they’re blotting out suns They claim to know the form in which genius comes Baby come on get your high heels on It’s the body is cold It’s the course is run What artless living all this soft pain thrills What calamities usher all our brilliance to the hills! Can you feel it? Baby come on get stoned get stoned Get inside it inside it inside it inside Get along get along get alone get alone Was it the weed or the moment that stoned ye? Baby come on get the hourglass on I will dart into town - no I won’t be long If the talk’s getting cold, we’ll be chancing none Well you know what I’m saying Our day will come Can you feel it? Won’t be long
7.
Babe it feels like it’s all happened 23 years of the same And I’m sorry ‘bout this morning For the damage I will pay All the mirrors face the walls and I wake just to long for bed “Love what’s got you so down low? - The saddest tongue is in your head!” I forget the thrill of lies The truth escaping through the eyes, now You use voices on the phone That once were spent on me The world has changed beyond our doorstep people talk and dress so strange I don’t know a neighbour’s name And all of life is rearranged Nice to know that you’re still caring well enough to raise your voice but If we must bring up the past then please don’t speak to me of choice Across the way moved in a pair with passion in its prime Maybe they look through to us and hope that’s them in time
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Skinty Fia 03:55
Does you really don’t know where the avenuers go Are you lying through your teeth or are they paying through your nose A set of manners and a smile is all they want you for But we can talk about it later You can read it in the paper I hated you away from the very start I seen you sticking to your smile - it’s gone and broken my heart Now the wind is making work of every step on the bridge You say “I used to say we found each other - now I don’t know Where he is” You get that feel - make your spirit shine I let her prize apart my ribcage like a crackhead at the blinds - It hurt But come the downing of a scrapyard sun There is no light falls on our failure It ain’t covered in the paper Well I really don’t care what you think of me But something gears me to the grovel every opportunity I’ve got that jealous stripe - I probably am that type I’ll see you twenty Mary’s later When your tongue is talking straighter Heard he took ‘em all down to the mercenary bar I heard she broke up with her fella now he’s drinkin’ in his car - nah I’m not inclined towards the scandalous word But on the subject of myself I do believe what I’ve heard There is a track beneath the wheel and it’s there till we die She says “I don’t agree with nothing” I say “Neither do I” - Go to sleep There’s not a thing can’t be fixed with a dream And we can talk about it later You can read it in the paper I bet ya I bet ya You had your smile You had your smile For the open mile I bet ya I bet ya You had your smile, your face defile For the open mile I bet ya I bet ya I bet you now I bet ya I bet ya I bet you now I bet ya I bet ya I bet ya I bet you now
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I Love You 05:05
I love you I love you I told you I do It’s all I’ve ever felt I’ve never felt so well And if you don’t know it I wrote you this tune To be here loving you when I’m in the tomb I’ve eddied the heart now from Dublin to Paris And if there was sunshine - it was never on me So close the rain, so pronounced is the pain I love you Imagine a world without you It’s only ever you I only think of you And if it’s a blessing I want it for you If I must have a future I want it with you System in our hearts You only had it before You only opened the window Never opened up the door And I love you I love you Told you I do Selling genocide and half-cut pride I understand I had to be there from the start I had to be the fucking man It was a clamber of a life I sucked the ring off every hand had ‘em plying me with drink I even met with their demands when the cherries lined up I kept the spoilings for myself ‘til I had 30 ways of dying looking at me from the shelf a cloud-parting smile I had a real good child I was But this island’s run by sharks with children’s bones stuck in their jaws Now the morning’s filled with cokeys tryna talk you through it all Is their mammy Fine Gael and is their daddy Fianna Fáil And they say they love the land but they don’t feel it go to waste Put a mirror to the youth and they will only see their face Makes - flowers read like broadsheets - “every young man wants to die” Say it to the man who profits and the bastard walks by And the bastard walks by And the passer walks by Say it to him 50 times and still the bastard won’t cry, would I lie? I love you I love you I told you I do It’s all I’ve ever felt I’ve never felt so well And if you don’t know it I wrote you this tune To be here lovin’ you when I’m in the tomb System in our hearts You only had it before Echo echo echo The lights they go The lights they go The lights they go Echo echo Selling genocide and half-cut pride I understand I had to be there from the start I had to be the fucking man It was a clamber of a life I sucked the ring off every hand had ‘em plying me with drink I even met with their demands And I loved ye like a penny loves the pocket of a priest And I’ll love you till the grass around my gravestone is deceased And I’m heading for the cokeys I will tell them ‘bout it all About the gall of Fine Gael and the fail of Fianna Fáil And now the flowers read like broadsheets Every young man wants to die Say it to the man who profits and the bastard walks by And the bastard walks by And the passer walks by Say it to him 50 times and still the bastard won’t cry Would I lie?
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Nabokov 05:21
I did you a favour I bled myself dry Well this is what it is now Pain pain He’s selling insurance Selling clouds to the sky You sold me on living Living is nothing But you’re so good lookin’ I bled myself dry (Daze ya Phase ya Happy days yeah) I did you a favour I bled myself dry Well this is what it is now Pain pure sky I’ll be your dog of submission My mission To help you forget I’ll be your dog in the corner I will light your cigarette Ah but you’re so good lookin’ But you’re so good lookin’ Awh I did you a favour I did you a favour Awh I did you a favour I bled myself out Well this is what it is now Pain pure sky I’ll be your dog in the corner I will be your dog In the corner
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"2020’s A Hero’s Death saw Fontaines D.C. land a #2 album in the UK, receive nominations at the GRAMMYs, BRITs and Ivor Novello Awards, and sell out London’s iconic Alexandra Palace.

Now the band return with their third record in as many years: Skinty Fia. Used colloquially as an expletive, the title roughly translates from the Irish language into English as “the damnation of the deer”; the spelling crassly anglicized, and its meaning diluted through generations. Part bittersweet romance, part darkly political triumph - the songs ultimately form a long-distance love letter, one that laments an increasingly privatized culture in danger of going the way of the extinct Irish giant deer."

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released April 22, 2022

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