These Exiled Years Lyrics

Lyric discussion by guinness_ 

Cover art for These Exiled Years lyrics by Flogging Molly

Just like jimboa18 said, that's what it's about.

And to make it even more clear;

"For your land of the free, Now prisons me, To rot in this jail, Of lost liberty" -> land of the free is America, but it wasn't no land of the free at all for Dave. It was lost liberty, it wasn't that beautiful as it was said to be. They pretty much prisonned him, cause he didn't get a greencard for a long long time.