Ways to go

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WE’VE COME A WAYS ALREADY

WE’VE GOT A WAYS TO GO

TILL WE BASK IN THE GLORY

TILL WE BASK IN THE GLOW

THE GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT

OF 1998

WOULD MARK THAT NEW BEGINNING

WE’RE HERE TO CELEBRATE

WITH THAT NEW BEGINNING

CAME A SHIFT IN OUR MINDSET

THERE’S MUCH WE MUST REMEMBER

MUCH MORE WE MUST FORGET

MOST DAYS A WHITEWASHED SEPULCHRE

LOOKS PURE AS THE DRIVEN SNOW

WE’VE COME A WAYS ALREADY

WE’VE GOT A WAYS TO GO

WE’VE COME A WAYS ALREADY

WE’VE GOT A WAYS TO GO

THE GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT

WOULD MARK NOT OUR DEATH THROES

BUT THE END OF VIOLENCE

IT MARKED CALLING A HALT

TO OUR CONSTANT RECRIMINATIONS

AN END TO FINDING FAULT

A FAULTLINE IS A SUTURE

ALONG WHICH WE MAY HEAL

IT POINTS TO A FUTURE

IN WHICH WE’LL BREAK THE SEAL

WHEN ALL THE PALE OUTRIDERS

COME IN FROM THE COLD

AND THE DISSIDENT BELLWETHERS

ARE BROUGHT BACK TO THE FOLD

THE BOOK OF REVELATION

MUST BE READ BETWEEN THE LINES

THAT CLOUD ON THE HORIZON

MAY WELL BE CLOUD NINE

OUR TIMES MAY AGAIN BE HEADY

THOUGH OUR SPIRITS ARE OFTEN LOW

WE’VE COME A WAYS ALREADY

WE’VE GOT A WAYS TO GO

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WE’VE COME A WAYS ALREADY

WE’VE GOT A WAYS TO GO

LET’S GIVE UP TALKING TURKEY

AND TAKE UP EATING CROW

THERE MUST BE SOME ADVANTAGE

WE’RE NOT OBLIGED TO PRESS

THE TRAUMA OF OUR HISTORY

REMAINS LARGELY UNADDRESSED

ALTHOUGH WE’RE DOGGED BY INSTINCT

TO SPEAK AT EVERY STUMP

AND SIMPLY CAN’T RESIST THE URGE

TO SOUND THE LAST TRUMP

OUR TWENTY MILES OF PEACE WALLS

MUST FALL WITH JERICHO

WE’VE COME A WAYS ALREADY

WE’VE GOT A WAYS TO GO

WE’VE COME A WAYS ALREADY

WE’VE GOT A WAYS TO GO

AND THERE ARE STILL SOME ISSUES

AROUND WHICH WE TIPTOE

WE CARRY SO MUCH BAGGAGE

IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO CHECK

OUR DEVOTION TO OUR BIRTHRIGHT

IS A MILLSTONE ROUND OUR NECKS

LET’S NOT END UP AS SAMSON

CAUGHT BETWEEN PILLAR AND POST

THE GREENGAGE AND THE DAMSON

VYING TO BE UPPERMOST

WHEN WHAT WE NEED TO PRESERVE

IS PARITY OF ESTEEM

AND THE HEIGHT OF OUR AMBITION

IS TO TAKE ONE FOR THE TEAM

WE’RE APT TO MAKE A WEAPON

OUT OF ANY TOOL

EVEN THE CALMEST MILLPOND

MAY HARBOR A WHIRLPOOL

IT’S INTO JUST SUCH AN EDDY

WE POUR NOT OIL BUT OUR WOES

WE’VE COME A WAYS ALREADY

WE’VE GOT A WAYS TO GO

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WE’VE COME A WAYS ALREADY

WE’VE GOT A WAYS TO GO

NORTHERN IRELAND’S CHANGING

THAT’S THE NEW STATUS QUO

IT MIGHT SEEM 1998

PREDATED THE ICE AGE

WE MUST REMIND OUR CHILDREN

THEY HAVE TO REENGAGE

WITH OUR BLOODLESS COVENANT

AND START EVERY SENTENCE WITH BUT

OR THEY’LL BE DOOMED

TO BE STUCK IN AN ANCIENT RUT

OUR TENDENCY TO USE DEADLY FORCE

MUST BE DEALT A DEATH BLOW

WE’VE COME A WAYS ALREADY

WE’VE GOT A WAYS TO GO

WE’VE COME A WAYS ALREADY

WE’VE GOT A WAYS TO GO

WHEN WE KNOW THINGS ARE COOKING

WE NEED TO TAKE IT SLOW

AS FOR THE VALIANT BACKING

THAT’S COME FROM THE USA

THERE’S NO OVERSTATING

THAT’S STILL A MAINSTAY

WE’VE COME A WAYS ALREADY

WE’VE GOT A WAYS TO GO

LED BY ONE OF THE BURNING BUSHES

BY BILL BY BARACK BY JOE

THEY’VE HELPED DESIGN THE MANSION

ON WHICH WE’VE TAKEN A LEASE

THEIR ONLY FORM OF EXPANSION

UPON THE IDEA OF PEACE

WHEN PEACE WOULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED

WITHOUT THE BRAVE LEADERSHIP

OF OUR OWN POLITICIANS

WHATEVER TIDES MIGHT RIP

WE’VE COME A WAYS ALREADY

WE’VE GOT A WAYS TO GO

THAT MEANS HOLDING STEADY

WHATEVER WINDS MIGHT BLOW

THAT MEANS HOLDING STEADY

SAYING YEA RATHER THAN NO

WE’VE COME A WAYS ALREADY

WE’VE GOT A WAYS TO GO