By The Drum

In the age of disposable talent
where the keepers decide what you palate
While they put to the roads what’s forever
And they blow out the bubbles and feathers
But the flame that has fired us together
in the bars or the halls of wherever
Where we soar at the ivory gates
of a warm and sensual sea
Where I still belong to you
and you still belong to me, forever

By the drum is forever
and for ever and ever
It’s the sound of a heart beat
on the ebb and flow river
By the drum is forever
and forever and ever
Marking time moving on
as we wake the new dawning
By the drum is forever

To put an ear to the heart of the soul man
To through an eye on the human condition
not just the sky channel jive, it’s not canned man its live
It’s a pathetic and censored rendition
You’ve got it down on a par with the rag mag
And under the keepers thumb
These princes must be what these princes must be
But we claim a place by the drum

By the drum is forever
and for ever and ever
It’s the sound of a heart beat
on the ebb and flow river
By the drum is forever
and forever and ever
Marking time moving on
as we wake the new dawning
By the drum is forever

By the drum is forever
and for ever and ever
It’s the sound of a heart beat
on the ebb and flow river
By the drum is forever
and forever and ever
Marking time moving on
as we wake the new dawning
By the drum is forever

• Written by Jimmy MacCarthy