Slainte Mhath 1 Comhairle nan Eilean Siar 02:00 2 North Lanarkshire 02:00 3 Inverclyde 02:00 4 Orkney 02:00 5 East Lothian 02:00 6 Perth & Kinross 02:00 7 Moray 02:00 8 Clackmannanshire 02:30 9 West Dunbartonshire 03:00 10 Dumfries & Galloway 03:00 11 Angus 03:00 12 South Lanarkshire 03:00 13 East Renfrewshire 03:00 14 Dundee 03:00 15 Falkirk 03:00 16 Renfrewshire 03:00 17 East Ayrshire 03:00 18 Aberdeenshire 03:00 19 Stirling 03:00 20 Midlothian 03:30 21 Argyll & Bute 03:30 22 West Lothian 03:30 23 South Ayrshire 03:30 24 Shetland 03:30 25 East Dunbartonshire 03:30 26 Fife 04:00 27 Highland 04:00 28 North Ayrshire 04:30 29 Scottish Borders 05:00 30 Edinburgh 05:00 31 Glasgow 05:00 32 Aberdeen 06:00 A hand held over a candle in angst fuelled bravado A carbon trail scores a moist stretched palm Trapped in the indecision of another fine menu And you sit there and ask me to tell you the story so far This is the story so far Shuffling your memories dealing your doodles in margins You scrawl out your poems across a beermat or two And when you declare the point of grave creation They turn round and you to tell them the story so far This is the story so far And you listen with a tear in you eye To their hopes and betrayals and your only reply Is Slainte Mhath Princes in exile raising the standard Drambuie Parading their anecdotes tired from old campaigns Holding their own last orders commanding attention We sit here and listen to all of the story so far This is the story so far Take it away, take it away, take it away Take me away, take me away, take me away From the dream on the barbed wire at Flanders and Bilston Glen From a Clydeside that rusts from the tears of its broken men From the realisation that weve been left behind Is to stand like our fathers before us in the firing line Waiting on the whistle to blow We stand here waiting on the whistle to blow They promised us miracles, and the whistle still blows Broken promises but the whistle still blows Waiting on the whistle to blow We stand here waiting on the whistle to blow
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 19:57:25 +0000
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