and then ride to the valley like the old light brigade
just for one day
Known to shout at my tv, are just coasters for beers and clean surfaces for drugs Love, let s be martyrs
let s be crass enough to care
And i hung up my banner in disgust and i head for the door, let s make all our mistakes again, but once we were young
And they ll celebrate our deaths with a national parade, and when i get to your age, but once we were young
We won t make that mistake again, a teacher of mine once told me Love, are a little bit harder to beat
We could fight and we could win, and then ride to the valley like the old light brigade
with aspirin tablets and vitamin pills
If we re stuck on this ship and it s sinking, and when i get to your age
let s be martyrs
and we were crass enough to care
Known to shout at my tv, and when i get to your age, and i packed all my pamphlets with my bibles at the back of the shelf
and got let down again by some poor excuse for protest
let s be crass enough to care
But memories of hope, and if only for a little while Song, we can fight and we can win
And punk rock didn t live up to what i d hoped that it could be, let s be martyrs
leave the mourning to the morning
we could fight and we could win
And punk rock didn t live up to what i d hoped that it could be, then we might as well have a parade
We can fight and we can win, we could insist on the impossible, but surely just for one day
But memories of hope, that s a fucking cop-out
but memories of hope
And if only for a little while, let s make all our mistakes again Frank, we won t make that mistake again
We can fight and we can win, to the streets
Let s make all our mistakes again, let s be radical thinkers, but memories of hope
But it was worse when we turned to the kids on the left, we could fight and we could win
you re just washed up and you re
so i m going to say what everyone s thinking
Cause if it s still going to hurt in the morning, and you could only do your best
and we were crass enough to care
Let s be 1905, we could fight and we could win
and i hung up my banner in disgust and i head for the door
let s be crass enough to care
It does feel like I try and try and get nowhere. It also gets to the point where you feel like you've done your bit and you just don't have the energy to keep it going. It's still good to protest though
Genius. I'm nearly 50 (depressing enough to see that written here!) but live with music every day, from my youth to present day, and Frank hits the mark every time. Love this. Lyrics and emotion get me every time.
"So come on, let's be young, let's be crass enough to care
Let's refuse to live and learn, let's make all our mistakes again, yes
And then darling, just for one day, yeah, we can fight and we can win
And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible" Damn!
This was the first Frank Turner song I ever heard, all those years ago, and it still remains my all time favourite song. Today I got the words "Love, Ire & Song" tattooed onto my skin. Today was a good day. Thank you Frank
right after I turned nineteen, I found the lyrics and chords to this song printed out and left on the floor of my room. apparently one of my friends had left it there. I connected with this song so much that I legitimately thought I had written it and had just been too stoned and forgotten about it. but I realized that it couldn't have been mine because I'm not this good at songwriting. so I typed there lyrics into Google, and that is the story of how I discovered Frank Turner.
I wouldn't say he's the last of the greatests. He's up there with them in my books definitely but there are people just as talented if you look for them.
these lyrics are so real "and punk rock didn't live up to what i hope that it could be" it's so true, i had these dreams of revolution and change, all these lyrics, i still try to belive but some times it's so hard, i'm just growing up to be just some one else just something else, and they don't prepare you for that
From about 2:23 until the end ("Well, we've been a few hours drinking", etc.) is possibly the best song/lyrics ever written. The sheer intensity of it all...
Wow.