Flogging Molly - To Youth lyrics

Tell me why must a man be of service To his Lord and the Gods seldom high? From the grave sprang the name of our fathers But there's no glint in a dead man's eye Tell me why our fields filled with hunger And fruitless the crop bittered soil? So I say my farewell to a nation As the leaf waves goodbye to its sun So it's to youth I sing you this story And it's of youth I sing it now Like the train that derailed without warning I must leave what I left far behind So goodbye sweet Roisin Dubh, I say goodbye Tell me why must our peace be this puzzle That fractures the land splinters war? The last nail sank the shame on our coffin But in the end we must all die alone So it's to youth I sing you this story And it's of youth I sing it now Like the train that derailed without warning Some must leave what they left far behind So goodbye sweet Roisin Dubh, I say goodbye And the bark fell from tree to the ground that now bleeds On the anguish that never learnt to shout When the clash of the drum will surrender the gun And of this sadness we shall no longer speak Until tank and the bomb are but all forgotten songs That's when I and we will sing again So goodbye to my love, my sweet Roisin Dubh Goodbye now until we meet again Tell me why must our grief still be grieving For a language that never spoke its loss? But this tongue spit with fire will tear down the barbwire And rip the belly from the waxy ghost So it's to youth I sing you this story And it's of youth I sing it now Like the train that derailed without warning We must leave what we left far behind So it's to youth I sing you this story And it's of youth I sing it now Like the train that derailed without warning We must leave what we left far behind So goodbye sweet Roisin Dubh, I say goodbye So goodbye sweet Roisin Dubh, I say goodbye Until we meet again, until we meet again Until we meet again, she'll rise to beautify But slumber now must rest o' my Roisin Dubh I'll forever love the youth you once possessed