This song details the economic situation in Ireland.
The lines...
"Hey Charlie don't you know Seanie, don't you know Paddy, don't you know the Baileys?
Good old boys at the races
In a big tent at the races"
...refer to the now infamous fundraising tent erected by Fianna Fail, an Irish political party, at the Galway races. The tent because the epitome of all that was wrong with corrupt Irish politics. Bankers and property magnates would show up to the tent, caked in bling, surrounded by attractive young women and occasionally even their wives, and get drunk with their elected representatives and regulators. Business and politicians corrupt hand in corrupt hand.
The verse....
"Let's build all this shit
no-one's ever gonna buy
When we come round we'll
blame the sugar high
and act all sheepish,
and kinda sorry-ish
They'll just sit there like
monuments
Plastic flapping in the wind
Like a flag"
....refers to the so-called ghost-estates in Ireland. Built just before the economy went bust, there are now estates of half built, empty homes littering Ireland, monuments to the political and economic decline.
This song details the economic situation in Ireland.
The lines...
"Hey Charlie don't you know Seanie, don't you know Paddy, don't you know the Baileys? Good old boys at the races In a big tent at the races"
...refer to the now infamous fundraising tent erected by Fianna Fail, an Irish political party, at the Galway races. The tent because the epitome of all that was wrong with corrupt Irish politics. Bankers and property magnates would show up to the tent, caked in bling, surrounded by attractive young women and occasionally even their wives, and get drunk with their elected representatives and regulators. Business and politicians corrupt hand in corrupt hand.
The verse....
"Let's build all this shit no-one's ever gonna buy When we come round we'll blame the sugar high and act all sheepish, and kinda sorry-ish They'll just sit there like monuments Plastic flapping in the wind Like a flag"
....refers to the so-called ghost-estates in Ireland. Built just before the economy went bust, there are now estates of half built, empty homes littering Ireland, monuments to the political and economic decline.
Thanks for the information. very interesting.
Thanks for the information. very interesting.