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lirik lagu for those i love - the ox / the afters

the ox, the big man from down the block
it broke his heart to see the faces on the road when he was caught
he fought his friends and we’d shake his hands, then we’d hit the same old spots
and he’d smile and say the pain was his release

[verse]
i met him for the first time in an age out on the train
his mid day cans at his feet were hidden from display
and he says, “dave, mate, tell us, what has ya out this way
are you still boxing in the same old place or have ya moved out from the grange?”
he said he moved about and shadow boxed in his box room every day
but he was getting on in age, now 52 didn’t feel the same
he had an alex higgins sway, on a battling nelson frame
and he was only just the ox in name

[chorus]
the ox, the big man from down the block
he boxed, and wared, and drank, and roared
but was built from golden stock
he’d break his voice to nothin when he spoke about the docks
but he’d smile and say he’s on his way for peace
the ox, the big man from down the block
it broke his heart to see the faces on the road when he was caught
he fought his friends and we’d shake his hands, then we’d hit the same old spots
and he’d smile and say the pain was his release

[verse]
i’d drive him home at night, from time to time from days of sweat
i was wet behind the ears, but he put me wide to life and death
“davey don’t ya know the more ya grow the more you’ll learn what’s worth regret
and there’s no better place to end your race than when you settle all your debts,”
he walked the roads at night alongside his uncle chrissy
he always said he had no time to be busy, lost in history
all he ever loved was good friends and thin lizzy
the year he tried to shed the extra pounds, he took the hound
and ran himself to the ground, with
the boys are back in town on a speaker round his neck blaring loud
like some stocky dublin rocky, shadow boxed the air as he went
deadset on health, all the way til the day his daddy fell
and he was back on the drink like the hounds of h~ll
he yelled and lined up pints of ten
and he drank more and more and roared “the boys are truly back in town again.”

and he’d say
“dave, i pray things for me will change
me legs they won’t keep giving out
and the drink won’t rule my ways”
he’d smile, and wink, and sway
he buried stout and cider
made his name as a local fighter
and he’d shout about the beatings that he took from priests
they kicked him from the inn, he’d go out and try his luck again
he tried to drown himself to find some inner peace
he taught me early, “dave ya have to speak sincerely,”
nearly no one had a bad word to his name
he said, “the drink should fear me”
but it left him weak and weary
clearly never found the friend, that he became

when he spoke the scar upon his cheek would ripple with each word
it was savaged out in ‘99 from a fistfight at his door
he used to whisper to the lot of us that he always wanted more
but good stout, and friends about the ends was all we could afford
but still he seemed happy, or at least he told you that he was
down the town, another round, and then he’d coach ya through your wars
walk the dogs, and say h~llo, and he’d drink and drink some more
and he broke our hearts the day they finally found him on the floor

they gave him a pardon
he was survived by his garden
i think his spirit continues to box
his name was john martin
he turned all his cards in
but everyone called him the ox
daylight
safe flight
he was the one from her dreams
he chose an eight pint goodbye and then a cry in the field
playwright passions, he put the world on a page
he said who needed to finish, when he had the world as his stage
he never sat inside a plane
when she left he chose to stay
he wrote he cards that he never he’d never send
he said it shouldn’t bother me
i called it “daylight bl~~dy robbery”
honestly
he played pretend all the way until the end

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