Flogging Molly - Life in a Tenement Square Meaning

Life in a Tenement Square Lyrics

Well I kissed the day, I was on my way
From those cold gray blocks of stone
For seventeen years of squalor filled tears
A time now with innocence lost
As the sun split the room
With its rays filled with gloom
Turnin' all hope to...

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   anonymous

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   Aug 4th 2006 !⃝

   This song could be refering to the filthy tenements in which the irish were forced to live in after fleeing the potato famine and coming to america, or it could be an allusion to lead singer dave king's childhood dwelling. He grew up in a house with one room and one bedroom, and outside his house, he could hear the ira practices, to which the line "the ghosts of the soldiers that lived here before laugh with their guns by their sides" could be an allusion.
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   Jun 17th 2012 !⃝

   The song is about the slums and tenements irish immigrants had to live in
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   Mar 19th 2010 !⃝

   It's a song about King's childhood in Dublin, in the Beggar's Bush tenement. Dublin had some housing areas that were originally built as upper-class homes, and decayed over time into tenement flats. Soldiers were also quartered in some of them ("While the ghosts of the soldiers /That lived there before us / Laugh with their guns by their side"). King left Dublin in his 20's ("For seventeen years of squalor filled tears /A time now with innocence lost") to move to London and join Fastway.
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   Mar 18th 2006 !⃝

   It's about living an old apartment and poverty and all that.

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