"Fear of priests with empty plates
and guilt and weeping effigies"
and
"Thousands are sailing
Again across the ocean
Where the hand of opportunity
Draws tickets in a lottery
Postcards we're mailing
Of sky-blue skies and oceans
From rooms the daylight never sees
Where lights don't glow on Christmas trees
But we dance to the music
And we dance"
Both from "Thousands are Sailing"
"may the whores of the empire
lie awake in their beds
and sweat as they count out
the sins on their heads
while over in Ireland
eight more men lie dead
kicked down and shot
in the back of the head."
From Birmingham Six
and must be the softie in me, but
"This morning on the harbour
When I said goodbye to you
I remember how I swore
That I'd come back to you one day
And as the sunset came to meet
The evening on the hill
I told you I'd always love you
I always did
I always will"
from Body of an American,
That last part always gets me for some reason and I couldn't even begin to explain why.