[Intro]

[Verse 1]

Well I kissed the day, I was on my way

From those cold grey blocks of stone

For seventeen years of squalor filled tears

A time now with innocence lost

As the sun split the room with its rays filled with gloom

Am E7

Turnin’ all hope to despair

And the only thing left was to flee from the nest

That was life in a Tenement Square

[Interlude]

[Verse 2]

I remember the song where the rats sang along

And danced for their daily bread

While the damp washed the walls that were twenty feet tall

Not a child in the house was fed

On the porter filled face of the men left no trace

Am E7

Of the coin they had already spent

While our mothers asked God what was Hell ever for

When you lived in a Tenement Square

[Bridge]

Grab what’s left of the coal from the ole cubbyhole

These cinders need more to be a fire

While the ghosts of the soldiers that lived there before us

Laugh with their guns by their sides

I hear them laugh, with their guns by their sides

[Verse 3]

Now politicians they dwell in that forgotten Hell

Our misery’s been turned into news

Where the fat of the land now hog, hand in hand

A crime now of life was ever true

As the sun split the room with its rays filled with gloom

Am E7

Turnin’ all hope to despair

And the only thing left was to flee from the nest

That was life in a Tenement Square