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Artist: Fontaines D.C.
Suggested Track: I Love You

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I love you, I love you, I told you I do
It's all I've ever felt, I've never felt so well
And if you don't know it, I wrote you this tune
To be here loving you when I'm in the tomb
I've eddied the heart now, from Dublin to Paris
And if there was sunshine, it was never on me
So close, the rain, so pronounced is the pain
Yeah

Well, I love you, imagine a world without you
It's only ever you, I only think of you
And if it's a blessing, I want it for you
If I must have a future, I want it with you
System in our hearts, you only had it before
You only open the window, never open up the door
And I love you, I love you, told you I do

Selling genocide and half-cut pride, I understand
I had to be there from the start, I had to be the fucking man
It was a clamber of the life, I sucked the ring off every hand
Had 'em plying me with drink, even met with their demands
When the cherries lined up, I kept the spoilings for myself
'Til I had thirty ways of dying looking at me from the shelf
Cloud-parting smile I had, a real good child I was
But this island's run by sharks with children's bones stuck in their jaws
Now the morning's filled with cokeys tryna talk you through it all
Is their mammy Fine Gael and is their daddy Fianna Fáil?
And they say they love the land, but they don't feel it go to waste
Hold a mirror to the youth and they will only see their face
Makes flowers read like broadsheets, every young man wants to die
Say it to the man who profits, and the bastard walks by
And the bastard walks by, and the bastard walks by
Say it to him fifty times and still the bastard won't cry
Would I lie?

I love you, I love you, I told you I do
It's all I've ever felt, I've never felt so well
And if you don't know it, I wrote you this tune
To be here loving you when I'm in the tomb
System in our hearts, you only had it before
Echo, echo, echo, the lights, they go
The lights, they go, the lights, they go
Echo, echo

Selling genocide and half-cut pride, I understand
I had to be there from the start, I had to be the fucking man
It was a clamber of the life, I sucked the ring off every hand
Had 'em plying me with drink, even met with their demands
And I loved you like a penny loves the pocket of a priest
And I'll love you 'til the grass around my gravestone is deceased
And I'm heading for the cokeys, I will tell 'em 'bout it all
About the gall of Fine Gael and the fail of Fianna Fáil
And now the flowers read like broadsheets, every young man wants to die
Say it to the man who profits, and the bastard walks by
And the bastard walks by, and the bastard walks by
Say it to him fifty times and still the bastard won't cry
Would I lie?
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Fontaines D.C.
We were encouraging each other to be who we believed ourselves to be all the time” – Grian Chatten, lead vocals, Fontaines D.C. With the best bands, it seems to happen fast. The
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Fontaines D.C. lyrics - 39 song lyrics sorted by album, including "Twinkle (Skinty Fia Sessions)", "I Love You", "A Hero's Death".
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Fontaines D.C. – I Love You
[Chorus 1] / I love you, I love you, I told you I do / It's all I've ever felt, I've never felt so well / And if you don't know it, I wrote you this tune / To be here loving you
Fontaines D.C. – Jackie Down the Line
[Intro] / Do do do / La la la / [Verse 1] / My friend Sally says she knows ya / Got a funny point of view / Says you've got away with murder / Maybe one time, maybe two / Something
Fontaines D.C. – Roman Holiday
[Verse 1] / Baby, come on, get stoned, get stoned / Get inside it, inside it, inside it, inside / Get along, get along, get alone, get alone, get / Heard about the week on the
Fontaines D.C. – Too Real
[Intro] / Ah / [Verse 1] / None can pull the passion loose from youth's ungrateful hands / As it stands, I'm about to make a lot of money / Gold harps in the pan / None can
Fontaines D.C. – Televised Mind
[Chorus] / That's a televised mind / That's a televised mind / That's a televised mind / That's a televised mind / That's a televised mind / That's a televised mind / [Verse 1
Fontaines D.C. – Nabokov
I did you a favour / I bled myself dry / Well this is what it is now / Pain, pain / He's selling insurance / Selling clouds to the sky / You sold me on living / Living is nothing
Fontaines D.C. – Boys in the Better Land
‘Boys in the Better Land’ is the tenth song on ‘Dogrel’ and, according to Pitchfork, was written after ‘Chatten’s encounter with an Anglophobic Dublin cabby’. It is also noteworthy
Fontaines D.C. – In ár gCroíthe go deo
(In ár gCroíthe) / (In ár gCroíthe) / Gone is the day, gone is the night, gone is the day / (In ár gCroíthe) / Gone is the day, gone is the night, gone is the day / Gone is the day
Fontaines D.C. – A Hero's Death
Just over a year after the release of their debut album, Fontaines D.C. release “A Hero’s Death” as an introduction to the album of the same name, which will be released on the
Fontaines D.C. – Big
[Verse 1] / Dublin in the rain is mine / A pregnant city with a catholic mind / Starch those sheets for the birdhouse jail / All mescalined when the past is stale, pale / Dublin in
Fontaines D.C. – Big Shot
You've been through the war / But you've nothing to show / I traveled to space / Found the moon too small / And home is a pin / Rusting through a map / I go there to pray / Do my
Fontaines D.C. – One (Apple Music Home Session)
[Verse 1] / Is it getting better / Or do you feel the same? / Will it make it easier on you, now / You got someone to blame? / [Chorus] / You say one love, one life / When it's one
Fontaines D.C. – Bloomsday
[Verse 1] / Saw the city hall in flames / I suppose it doesn't do as much these days / You put on your coat, and smile / Saddest one I've seen for a country mile / Brought it down
Fontaines D.C. – I Don't Belong
[Verse 1] / You shoulda heard me in the lounger / Telling people what they was / Spitting out all types of sugar / Just dying for a cause, cause, cause / A smiler slithered to my
Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Grian Chatten said that the origins of the title of the song and the album came from the phrase Tom Coll’s great aunt would say: ““Skinty Fia
Fontaines D.C. – One (Skinty Fia Sessions)
[Verse 1] / Is it getting better / Or do you feel the same? / Will it make it easier on you now / That you've got someone to blame? / [Chorus] / You say one love, one life / When
Fontaines D.C. – No
[Verse 1] / Give us all you got / You're in love and then you're not / You can lock yourself away / Just appreciate the grey / You have hurt and you have lost / You're acquainted
Fontaines D.C. – The Couple Across the Way
Babe, it feels like it's all happened / Twenty-three years of the same / And I'm sorry 'bout this morning / For the damage I will pay / All the mirrors face the walls and / I wake
Fontaines D.C. – Sha Sha Sha
‘Sha Sha Sha’ is the second song on ‘Dogrel’ which explores the bleak existence of a Dublin ‘cab driver’ in a similar vein to the way in which Leopold Bloom, the protagonist in
Fontaines D.C. – You Said
[Verse 1] / You said / You been on the brink, so slow down / Don't get time to think now / You try / Operating faster / Operating faster / Operating / [Chorus] / We both / Have a
Fontaines D.C. – How Cold Love Is
How cold love is / How cold love is / How cold love is / How cold love is / They sit in their room / They all consume / They fall in their bed / They wanna go dead / They sit in
Fontaines D.C. – 'Cello Song
[Verse 1] / Strange face, with your eyes so pale and sincere / Underneath, you know well you have nothing to fear / For the dreams that came to you when so young / They told of a
Fontaines D.C. – Dublin City Sky
[Verse 1] / I was down the bottom half of some old bar in Chinatown / Me shoes had brought the rain and soaked the space for lookin' down / As drunk as love is lethal, I spun a
Fontaines D.C. – Love Is the Main Thing
[Verse 1] / Love is the main thing / Love is the main thing / Always the same thing / Alwaysly raining / Love is the main thing / Tired of embracing / Alwaysly floating / Never
Fontaines D.C. – Oh Such a Spring
[Verse 1] / Down by the docks / The weather was fine / The sailors were drinking American wine / [Pre-Chorus] / And I wished I could go back to spring again / [Verse 2] / Now they'
Fontaines D.C. – Twinkle (Skinty Fia Sessions)
[Verse 1] / Waiting to be bled / Turning tricks just like your mother / Left my dreams for dead / Making out with every other / [Pre-Chorus] / She's the air I breathe, not too pure
Fontaines D.C. – Television Screens
[Verse 1] / Saw the ice face fail / For the first time in years / And the water levels rise / 'Round the television screens / All your tough man looks / For which you had reserved
Fontaines D.C. – Sunny
[Verse 1] / Saw you walking in the daytime / On a stomach so bare / Sunny, my life's gone easy / To tell the truth, I don't dare / Met your mother in an early / Couldn't focus on a
Fontaines D.C. – Chequeless Reckless
[Verse 1] / A sell-out is someone who becomes a hypocrite in the name of money / An idiot is someone who lets their education do all of their thinking / A phony is someone who
Fontaines D.C. – Hurricane Laughter
[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / I was toweled up to the waist while you were fresh from the confession / The angry streets, they twisted up and billowed with the laughter
Fontaines D.C. – The Lotts
‘The Lotts’ is named for an area (and a famously tiny pub) in Dublin; it’s where the band used to practice, and they recall having to watch their every step outside to avoid all
Fontaines D.C. – A Hero's Death (Soulwax Remix)
[Verse 1] / Don't get stuck in the past / Say your favourite things at mass / Tell your mother that you love her / And go out of your way for others / Sit beneath a light that
Fontaines D.C. – I Was Not Born
[Refrain] / I was not born / Into this world / To do another man's bidding / [Verse 1] / All you antiquated strangers / All throwing in the towel / To do another man's bidding / [
Fontaines D.C. – Roy's Tune
The song is named for the band’s guitarist Conor Curley, who earned the nickname “Roy” due to his affinity for corduroy pants. The song originated with Curley, who co-wrote the
Fontaines D.C. – The Cuckoo Is A-Callin'
[Instrumental intro] / [Verse 1] / Although the trees ungentle sway / Reflect the temper of the day / Just as lovely as you say / Rain upon my hair is falling / Stirred up as the
Fontaines D.C. – Peddler's Toy
[Verse 1] / The answer lies in the nest of thorns / The Baltic breeze and the broken hearts / So says I to the Darcey Boys / Paying out their lives to the Peddler's toys / You once
Fontaines D.C. – Liberty Belle (Live)
[Verse 1] / You know I love that violence that you get around here / That kind of ready, steady violence / That violent "How do you do?" / And the lie when it's, "Daddy, why sleep
Fontaines D.C. – Winter In The Sun
[Verse 1] / City boy reaches for the lonely heiress / Shes got a fruit fly buzzing round her head / And the boys are in a pack / They're looking for some some liquor / Coming up
Fontaines D.C. – Big Shot (Live at Glastonbury)
You've been through the war / But you've nothing to show / I traveled to space / Found the moon too small / And home is a pin / Rusting through a map / I go there to pray / Do my
Fontaines D.C. – Rocket To Russia
Yeah / Well, I don't really like it when you look that way / You know, you're always coming over to my place but you never stay / You're not a mean dirty woman, but you know I feel
Fontaines D.C. – The Black Angel's Death Song
[Verse 1] / Myriad had choice of his fate / Set themselves out upon a plate for him to choose / What had he to lose? / Not a ghost bloodied country all covered with sleep / Where
Fontaines D.C. – Living in America
[Verse 1] / London's fine, did my time, threshed the truth out the lie / Snowman coaled, pigeon holed, cooed to death, pilgrim soul / Curtain closed, system froze, wait for me
Fontaines D.C. – Wouldn't It Be Nice
A cover version of the classic song by The Beach Boys that was recorded for the Deezer-exclusive compilation InVersions.
Fontaines D.C. – A Lucid Dream
[Verse 1] / I was there / When the rain changed direction / And fled to play tricks with your hair / Overlooking them, there / And it's all coming back / And you're prowling the
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A Hero’s Death is the sophomore album from Irish indie band Fontaines DC, released on the 31st July 2020. Like its predecessor, the album was recorded in London at Dan Carey’s
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