Shakalak - 'Hometown' (Debut Single)
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Published 2018-10-22
Music video shot and directed by Jamie Goldrick of PushPull Collective twitter.com/jamjgo
Recorded and mixed by Sanjin Peric
Mastered by Fergal Davis
LYRICS:
Doin what your Ma says
But not really
Takin her at her face
But not really
A packet of crisps
Large bottle of coke
To mollify
Just for a little while
A hard wooden seat and an old wicker basket
20p put into your hand
Without askin
But not really
You’re not guilty
Not really
The city breeds me
I wake up in Baile Atha Cliath
And it shatters my soul sometimes when I see it
Like is it for real or is it an idea
Can I screw it together like a yoke from Ikea?
Said I wake up in Baile Atha Cliath
And it briste the chroi sometimes when I see you
Like a bird in a cage and I just want to free it
Or a word on a page and I want a melodia
I walk through the Dubh Linn Baile
The town full of drugs and the alcohol ye
The boardwalk junkies, the banklink beggars
Ah the muppet monkeys, the insulin feckers
Yeah I walk through the Cliath Baile Atha
But never in the places I know I’m not ought to
The same shits done by the Garda Siochana
Or the elected dopes over there in the Dail ye
Takin your cues from the heritage set
Coloured by the way your Da was dragged up
But not really (not really)
You’re not guilty (not guilty)
Not really
The city breeds me
I walk through the capital of Ireland
The dole queue with the workers up for hire
How many heads are down with nothing to inspire them
I’ve seen their eyes
Aw the anger and the fire in them
I lived in the suburb of the D5
It’s an odd number so I guess I’m from the northside
Coolock, Darndale, Belcamp, Meauview
These were the spots where once I did flow through
I’ve seen it with my own two suile
How folk chase the cash cause the lack of it rules you
I’ve heard it with my own two cluais
In a joe, on the dart, on the bus, on the luas
All the vicious pathetic chinwaggery
And smile on the face with the dose of backstabbery
People begrudgin other people
The robotic greaseballs of being on the diesel
Your way laid out with a thousand clackin keyboards
Half remember green seats on the bus
Multi colour shades of the Ilac
Stolen downward glances
Double seats at the pictures
The hometown can hammer the ceann down
But we can rise up above the ground and the pound down
The hometown…
Up above up above up above…
And then a few pints
And then twenty blue
And I’m fuckin broke
Then so are you
And what is the story?
What are you doin?
Ah sure you know
That’s how it goes for me
All Comments (21)
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I can’t get enough of this song. I love the mix of the Gaeilge and English.
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These guys are class..! Definitely a highlight of Electric Picnic this year. Besides the poetic dynamism and unabashed Dublin sounding vocals, they also just KNOW craic. Brilliant stage presence. Hope to see you guys grow and grow..! Me ceann and me cluas love it!
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Still loving this one lads !!
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Masterpiece - nothings changed
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Saw at the picnic, look forward to your poem being put up, brilliant lads
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Love this band and especially this song. John Cummins is a genius songwriter. They deserve bigger acclaim.
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Releasing the first tune, Karpay, off the album this November 26th in The Workman's Club xx shakalak!
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Utterly superlative track. John Cummins is a songwriter supreme. If poxy Bono wrote this, he'd be hailed a genius.
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Love the rapping , sick
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well done
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How am I just hearing this now... Crackin tune lads
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Saw u in cranelane cork few months ago ...class u were ..up the dubs
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Great track lads, fair play!🎵🧠🙌
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listening 2 this on repeat Nothing has changed in Dublin/Ireland 🇮🇪 greed is still rife...
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Great stuff lads
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Great work, men. A tribute worthy of the capital.
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This is off the scale brilliant
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Love it👌 Managed to record only part of the song at the 33rd Vibe. Happy to have found the full song now😁
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Starts off dark and heavy but love the way it lifts itself up at the end. Well done. Really liked how you included part of Vibe for Philo Dublinnit.
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well done john and lads. great tune i have this blearing everyday
