With its rays filled with gloom
I remember the song where the rats sang along
These cinders need more to be a fire
While the ghosts of the soldiers that lived there before us
A crime now of life was ever true
A time now with innocence lost
As the sun split the room
Now politicians they dwell in that forgotten hell
While the damp washed the walls that were twenty feet tall
As the sun split the room with its rays filled with gloom
Turnin' all hope to despair
For seventeen years of squalor filled tears
And the only thing left was to flee from the nest
Where the fat of the land, now hog, hand-in-hand
I hear them laugh with their guns by their side
On the porter filled face, of the men left a trace
Our misery's been turned into mews
While our mothers asked God, "What was Hell ever for
Not a child in the house was fed
That was life in a Tenement Square
When you lived in a Tenement Square?"
Laugh with their guns by their side
And the only thing left was to flee from the nest
Turnin' all hope to despair
Grab what's left of the coal from the ol' cubbyhole
Of the coin they had already spent
And danced for their daily bread
