cd: 88 Years
track 2: The Liffey
That’s how the other half lives
On the South side of the Liffey
That’s how the other half lives
And it’s never going to rearrange
That’s how the other half lives
On the South side of the Liffey
You’d be a fool
If you think it’s going to ever change
The young and the bored
And the well to do
Go on their spending sprees
And they act like older money
Looking down their nose at me
Dress up the Georgian houses
Down around Fitzwilliam Square
And then pretend
The rest of us aren’t there
Chorus
Up in the flats and the Daily courts
There’s a day to day unease
For the work is rarely steady
And the wages barely please
But down in the south in the Dublin 4
In the Donnybrook cafes
It’s Cappuccino nights and Tofu days
Chorus
And the face of destitution
Across Dan O’Connell’s Bridge
Is Dublin’s dirty dark side
With people on the edge
In the western Pembroke Mansions
With their gates to let you in
Everyone knows everyone can’t win
Chorus
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Written by Kyle Aughe