Where I’m From

[Chorus]
Where I'm from is the rule of the gun
And you can die young that's the rule of thumb
In a drug slum where nobody ever cares
Selling out their dreams for needle shares
Where I'm from is the rule of the gun
And you can die young that's the rule of thumb
In a drug slum where nobody ever cares
Selling out their dreams for needle shares

[Verse 1]
Dublin's going downhill, it makes me sick
There's people on Thomas Street tryna get a fix
Dealers chose to fill them with that bullshit hobby
It's deadly man, it's brown and it's on the rock
You get a bag for seventeen, two for thirty
Now you're trying to persuade to a judge and jury
It's nothing, only a life of defeat and if you're not addicted, your [?] is free
Here's a weapon and it's easy to make
It's a matchstick in between two razorblades
Gives you a nice Mars bar on the side of ya face
To a junkie it's just another pot case

People jumping counters, people robbing tills
People selling cocaine, heroin and pills
This is what they have to do to pay the bills
Inner cities where drugs kill

[Chorus]
Where I'm from is the rule of the gun
And you can die young that's the rule of thumb
In a drug slum where nobody ever cares
Selling out their dreams for needle shares
Where I'm from is the rule of the gun
And you can die young that's the rule of thumb
In a drug slum where nobody ever cares
Selling out their dreams for needle shares

[Post-Chorus]
No one cares
Dreams for needle shares
No one cares
Dreams for needle shares

[Verse 2]
Well I remember Dublin city in the rare auld times
It was pretty, witty with a rare old vibe
But now it's nitty-gritty full of gang nang crime
And it's kinda sad my city's lost her shine
I remember when it used to be a fight instead of a bloody knife
And it used to be enough instead of [?]
[?] 'cause they're shooting up the block
All around the clock, tick tock, never stops
Drugs infiltrated and penetrated and devastated
Generations born because they never made it
All were failed, never realised their realised dreams
Moneymaking schemes and scenes is all they've seen
We glorify our criminals playing them in a film
Every young lad blowing up thinks he's a general
One way trip to prison is what he's getting
What he's living, what he's seen, [?]
Never got affection but proved to be effective
Times like Life of Brian, now Brian when he's arrested
Self-fulfilling prophecy, prophet of hypocrisy
Never gonna stop until they're reading out his eulogy
You and me, you and me please
You and me, you and me please
You and me, you and me please
Stop this disease
Because our city's on its knees from the read to the streets, can't see the woods for the trees please

[Chorus]
Where I'm from is the rule of the gun
And you can die young that's the rule of thumb
In a drug slum where nobody ever cares
Selling out their dreams for needle shares
Where I'm from is the rule of the gun
And you can die young that's the rule of thumb
In a drug slum where nobody ever cares
Selling out their dreams for needle shares

[Post-Chorus]
No one cares
Dreams for needle shares
Oh someone care
Tell me is there anyone there
Someone care
Dreams for needle shares

[Chorus]
Where I'm from is the rule of the gun
And you can die young that's the rule of thumb
In a drug slum where nobody ever cares
Selling out their dreams for needle shares
Where I'm from is the rule of the gun
And you can die young that's the rule of thumb
In a drug slum where nobody ever cares
'Cause they're selling out their dreams for needle shares