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Mighty Sword Lyrics
I may not hold you
For as long as forever exists
I may not know you
For as long as the heavens permit
There will be distance
And we’ll both have to come to expect
The wild envy
Of our dark and feathered friends
We wield a mighty sword
That cuts through bone and lays the liars down
We wield an angry sword
That softens stone and turns the tides around
She called me over
And I’ll wait by your building tonight
But you may not bother
But it’s better than feeding the lie
I am receiving
The message that I need to go
But I’m not leaving
Til one of us renders it so
For as long as forever exists
I may not know you
For as long as the heavens permit
And we’ll both have to come to expect
The wild envy
Of our dark and feathered friends
That cuts through bone and lays the liars down
We wield an angry sword
That softens stone and turns the tides around
And I’ll wait by your building tonight
But you may not bother
But it’s better than feeding the lie
The message that I need to go
But I’m not leaving
Til one of us renders it so
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This son is nice but unnecessarily long
This song is about feeling like you're superman, capable of righting all wrongs and cutting through all of the crap that life chucks up at us.
Glen has also offered a couple of other explanations.
He once said that when he came out of the cinema, after watching the movie "Michael Collins" he felt like Superman, capable of anything. Also, he's introduced the song a few times as being about art and money being like oil and water and that everytime you take money for making art, it's like selling a limb.
Glen is very patriotic. And has always been very concerned about the Celtic Tiger, and how the history or Ireland and it's people is being diluted and sold down the river for money. And this song may have been a manifestation of that national pride and the love for his own country men and women now, and of times past.