David Keenan - Sentimental Dole lyrics

There's a foe living among us
Masquerading as a friend
When you stare into the flashlights
You must look to comprehend
For they want to keep you docile
Hence the boot upon your head
When they put you in a chokehold
Keeps you down until you're dead
This is mass discrimination, on every colour
Every creed
For to them you're just a number
Both the cattle and the feed
It may be sunny in the country but
The sun can come and go
There's still an anger in the stomach
Collective hunger in the soul

Sentimental dole where is the trust in the
Truth of equality? Oh
Wrapped in a flag and then sold as democracy
No constant hypocrisy
Draw the poison from the wound
Reversing the blame
No longer a pleb to be played
Like a pawn in their game

There are many banners blowing
Being carried by the mob
Tears forever flowing through the
Concrete and the sod
And the news provide the static
As reports come flooding in
About the riots of confusion between
The women and the men
Loneliness the silent killer takes and
Never gives you back
For it steals and can't stop stealing
A twisted kleptomaniac
Rid yourself of their agenda
Wash your spirit with some hope
See the mad collaborations like De
Valera and the Pope

Sentimental dole where is the trust in the
Truth of equality? Oh
Wrapped in a flag and then sold as democracy
No constant hypocrisy
Draw the poison from the wound
Reversing the blame
No longer a pleb to be played
Like a pawn in their game

He used to be a martyr till they nailed
Him to their cross and then left
Him at the altar to repay for what
They lost deliver the key to wisdom
From the wounds that scarred his hands and
He turned upon the system as he
Came to understand that they open up their
Bibles just to justify their crimes
Against the other fallen idols who'd been
Cut down in their primes
I heard the prophet pray for pity
For the fools who would be
King and the remnants of
The city as he closed his eyes to sing