This song is near the beginning of an entire album that loosely follows a retrospective of the life of fictional character Cornelius Larkin, beginning with his wake, but the lyrics of this song mostly read as a future wake for Dropkick Murphys singer Ken Casey (as seen in the official music video for the song). There are a ton of references and inside jokes in this song related to Casey's life in Boston.
Sister Barbara is a nun that taught Casey in grammar school; Chief Wells is the police chief of Milton, Massachusetts; Bobby Orr is a Boston Bruins hockey player; The Flannigans are a family whose stained glass window Casey broke as a child while fighting with their son; Mr. Sluggo is the owner of a couch Casey peed on in his sleep while drunk; Mrs. McAuliffe is a woman whose bedroom Casey had sleepwalked into while drunk at a friend's house; Tom Menino is the current Boston mayor since 1993; Mount Calvary is a cemetery in Boston where many Irish immigrants have been buried; Fenway Park is the famous baseball stadium in downtown Boston; Wolly Beach is in Quincy, Massachusetts (Dropkick's home town); McGreevy's Third Base Saloon is a bar down the street from Fenway owned by Casey; Desi Queally is a friend of the band who has performed gang vocals on previous albums.
There's probably more in there, but basically, this is a dream of a future wake in which the narrator imagines a massive party with all his friends and everyone he needs to apologize to.
This song is near the beginning of an entire album that loosely follows a retrospective of the life of fictional character Cornelius Larkin, beginning with his wake, but the lyrics of this song mostly read as a future wake for Dropkick Murphys singer Ken Casey (as seen in the official music video for the song). There are a ton of references and inside jokes in this song related to Casey's life in Boston.
Sister Barbara is a nun that taught Casey in grammar school; Chief Wells is the police chief of Milton, Massachusetts; Bobby Orr is a Boston Bruins hockey player; The Flannigans are a family whose stained glass window Casey broke as a child while fighting with their son; Mr. Sluggo is the owner of a couch Casey peed on in his sleep while drunk; Mrs. McAuliffe is a woman whose bedroom Casey had sleepwalked into while drunk at a friend's house; Tom Menino is the current Boston mayor since 1993; Mount Calvary is a cemetery in Boston where many Irish immigrants have been buried; Fenway Park is the famous baseball stadium in downtown Boston; Wolly Beach is in Quincy, Massachusetts (Dropkick's home town); McGreevy's Third Base Saloon is a bar down the street from Fenway owned by Casey; Desi Queally is a friend of the band who has performed gang vocals on previous albums.
There's probably more in there, but basically, this is a dream of a future wake in which the narrator imagines a massive party with all his friends and everyone he needs to apologize to.