Nigel Rolfe / Christy Moore
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A country artist making tiles
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Whilst on a grave slab sleeps a son
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Wet clay dug from the earth, wet stones covering the ground
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Earth that buried another woman died, dead and gone
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Left a torn lonely boy trying to reconfirm
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Trying to reconnect
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Trying to know himself and to contact the country
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Trying to know himself and to contact the country
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Whilst the artist celebrates
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Connects and confirms
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Contacts the country
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Knows herself
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Tiles and slabs
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Woman and son
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Take away
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Take a gun
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Blow away the blow-in
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The blow-in
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Kill the mother, kill the child in yourself
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Kill the pain
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Kill the father and the son and the holy ghost
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Kill the pain
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Violence from an inner rage buried in the country
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Violence from an inner rage buried in the country