Carrying children through war zones by Niall James Holohan Lyrics
It's already gone on too long
For the boy singing sailor's songs
As his Mam says "what is it love?"
And his Dad hovers working above
A book underneath his arm
And a worry that something wrong
Accompany him as he walks
Into a room where no one talks
And a relative grasps the sheets
As his Granddad struggles to breath
And his Nana's mind falls away
And his brother are boarding a plane
But the music he hears inside
Is soothing his innocent mind
And the book that he read at meals
It is becoming his sword and shield
Baby
If you really knew me
You'd know this ship sailed long ago
Most of time
I feel like I'm carrying children
Through war zones
My heart can't be broken
Because my heart was broken long ago
Teen years, tripping on a wet grass
Wet shins singing to the broken glass
Suddenly surrounded by boys
Who have no love for joy
So he fades back into the walls
Wet from sweat in the basketball hall
And he dreams of a better world
Where he can be among the girls
Because there isn't a boy he knows
That can go where he can go in his mind
And he really does need to know
If anyone can empathize
Baby
If you really knew me
You'd know this ship sailed long ago
Most of time
I feel I'm carrying children
Through war zones
My heart can't be broken
Because my heart was broken long ago
He tears the posters down of his wall
Tell his mother he's hearing a call
Ink, sinking down from his mind
Drowning in paper, blind
He's taking a road right now
That he'll never return from somehow
And in order to feel himself
He wraps the idea of 'home' up inside himself
And goes to war with the city he's from
And the country and the people who scrum
And will tell him who he should be
And in what way he's allowed to be free
But with every fist to the teeth
He grows militant and missionary
While his commitment to this sacred search
Is leaving old friends in the lurch
He hurtles towards the stars
Into music and out of the bars
And hope that he'll never forget
The day he slipped free of these nets
Baby
If you really knew me
You'd know this ship sailed long ago
Most of time
I feel I'm carrying children
Through war zones
And my heart can't be broken
Because my heart was broken long ago
For the boy singing sailor's songs
As his Mam says "what is it love?"
And his Dad hovers working above
A book underneath his arm
And a worry that something wrong
Accompany him as he walks
Into a room where no one talks
And a relative grasps the sheets
As his Granddad struggles to breath
And his Nana's mind falls away
And his brother are boarding a plane
But the music he hears inside
Is soothing his innocent mind
And the book that he read at meals
It is becoming his sword and shield
Baby
If you really knew me
You'd know this ship sailed long ago
Most of time
I feel like I'm carrying children
Through war zones
My heart can't be broken
Because my heart was broken long ago
Teen years, tripping on a wet grass
Wet shins singing to the broken glass
Suddenly surrounded by boys
Who have no love for joy
So he fades back into the walls
Wet from sweat in the basketball hall
And he dreams of a better world
Where he can be among the girls
Because there isn't a boy he knows
That can go where he can go in his mind
And he really does need to know
If anyone can empathize
Baby
If you really knew me
You'd know this ship sailed long ago
Most of time
I feel I'm carrying children
Through war zones
My heart can't be broken
Because my heart was broken long ago
He tears the posters down of his wall
Tell his mother he's hearing a call
Ink, sinking down from his mind
Drowning in paper, blind
He's taking a road right now
That he'll never return from somehow
And in order to feel himself
He wraps the idea of 'home' up inside himself
And goes to war with the city he's from
And the country and the people who scrum
And will tell him who he should be
And in what way he's allowed to be free
But with every fist to the teeth
He grows militant and missionary
While his commitment to this sacred search
Is leaving old friends in the lurch
He hurtles towards the stars
Into music and out of the bars
And hope that he'll never forget
The day he slipped free of these nets
Baby
If you really knew me
You'd know this ship sailed long ago
Most of time
I feel I'm carrying children
Through war zones
And my heart can't be broken
Because my heart was broken long ago