Life Begins and Ends (But Never Fails)

Lyrics

[Verse 1] More is the plenty of a life just shy of empty As a nation drowns beneath a restless sky The boats, they all be sailin', but our sadness mocks the wavin' As a breeze, with vengeance, blows against the tide But to the shore we love, grows smaller with each sigh [Chorus] And we all know we're goin', every sister, child, and brother Not all of us who wander find a way From County Wexford onward to Manchester and London America looks further by the day This life begins and ends but it never fails [Verse 2] We're passin' ships, we hunger, our bellies cry with thunder As death becomes the beauty of the frail But savage hearts remember these stolen lives they plundered Awake me now before the end's in sight Oh, nevermore to hear these graves become alive [Chorus] And we all know we're goin', every sister, child, and brother Not all of us who wander find a way From County Wexford onward to Manchester and London America looks further by the day This life begins and ends but it never fails [Bridge] What could we do, oh, what could we do? But raise a smile to justify these blackened hearts [?] What could we do, oh, what could we do? But sail away from the wolves that preyed in his famine ships, we flew What could we do, oh, what could we do? Sail away! [Chorus] And we all know we're goin', every sister, child, and brother Not all of us who wander find a way From County Wexford onward to Manchester and London America looks further by the day This life begins and ends but it never fails Oh, this life begins and ends but it never fails [Refrain] And we all know we're goin', every sister, child, and brother Not all of us who wander find a way