Song Meanings
The third track on the album "St. Patrick's Day" begins with a guitar which slowly builds up into a combination of tin whistles, uilleann pipes and drums. It describes pre-Celtic Tiger era Ireland. The fifth track "Party On" discusses the negative aspect of Ireland's drugs culture. The sixth track, "Colony", is a song about oppression and colonialism which is reworked from Dempsey's debut album, They Don't Teach This Shit in School. The penultimate track, "Choctaw Nation", details the plight of the Native American Choctaw people, whilst the final track, "Spraypaint Backalley", features a line from Oscar Wilde – "we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars".
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