No Quiet

Lyrics for No Quiet

Daddy said, “lay me down in the sea, I want to be with the waves”, as she wept “Watch over me like the Fear Marbh please”, she begged As he wailed out his breaths. “Cover me in a mountain of seeds I want to breathe long after my death I want to be with the flowers and weeds I want to feel like the life that I left.” Her brother Danny loved her just like a Mother Still used the old names for all the new roads She loved him most when he came home alone with silver But he broke her heart when he stayed out to hunt for gold. Her Mother stayed hidden from the sunlight Uptight locals said she suffered with her nerves One night left her with a shadow on her future She got lost inside herself when she went looking for the cure. Her Ma left Her Da left Her brother is next He’s marched out on the steps He spent years in the depths Then he put a hole in a chest He’s locked up for the rest Her Ma left Her Da left Her brother is next Marched on the courthouse steps Now she’s depressed to her depths Can’t budge the flames in her chest She just needed a rest. Her Mother held her hand as she sang over tears “Hush now these waters will comfort your fears.” All that year she sang the song of her home She wiped the tears from her eyes As she was carving the stone. “Is it the postcode divide? Am I lost by design? Is it the roll of the dice that keeps me Gone or alive?” She said she searched for a sign But the time wasn’t right And frontlines of future they wouldn’t be in her sights. Still she was living for a breather Job to job they couldn’t keep her She worked herself to death and back But still no-one would believe her She burned the candles just to heat her But the lights were growing weaker She tried the teachers and the preachers But still none of them could reach her She begged her brother for a change He played the horses with his wage He lost the shirt off his own back But couldn’t budge the world that weighed She played her own life on the stage They paid to watch her eat her pain Each day she’d make the trade, she’d stand and say “I’ll stay, I’ll stay, I’ll stay, I’ll stay, I’ll stay” "