Stay here in Ireland with the chains that bind your chest Your eyes are bloodshot red when you're looking at the rents Your past alive in wet cement Two great jobs and a life that's filled with work But the bank will only leave your heart with hurt

Stay here in Ireland and never find a peaceful rest Worked to the bone just to pay off all your debts Your life unfolding in a mess But there's life in those Bonnie Rowan trees That put the beauty in the only air I breathe

Stay here in Ireland and sing your troubles into song Bankrupt yourself just to stay where you belong Hide all our morals in the past to make it last 'Cause we're terrified to leave the laptop class

Stay here in Ireland and you'll suffer through the grey 'Cause that money won't take your pain away And your heart still makes ya stay here in Ireland Where nothing comes for free But you'll find beauty in the depths of Irish seas

Stay here in Ireland 'cause you've been here all your life What's another night inside this building site despite the price? The only ones you've ever loved all live within your neighbourhood How could you leave without putting up a fight?

Stay here in Ireland and you'll learn to count your blessings There's no future found around a life of planned obsolescence The job of your dreams has been replaced by machines But it's hard to complain once you look beyond the shores

Stay here in Ireland, in a town that's turning hollow You're torn apart by love of place like Deirdre of the Sorrows Borrowed lines and times won't outshine the horror of tomorrow So you'll stay another day, and you'll take all that you can swallow

Stay here in Ireland and see the Morrigan sight What was the price of a night is now the price of a pint Destined to stay behind, these upturned roots will die But I'll try and nurture them and hang on for another summer of good drying

Stay here in Ireland and you learn to bite your tongue Because your labour puts the boot down on someone No peaceful way to make a tonne So you drink your loss in pubs And grit your teeth through all the shite they talk for fun You've got some Landian scholar, pent up on piss, shit, and squalor Spouting ouroboros horrors on the barstool These slumlord ideologues are a cartoon And I'll watch them eat their legs when they can't move And I'll smile through it

There's no peace across the sea for me, no world where I feel free I'll stay trapped beneath the weight of a future ripped by thieves The only place that I can breathe is with the Bonnie Rowan trees I'll never leave, I'll never leave, I'll never leave There's no peace across the sea for me, no world where I feel free This building site that's city-wide is scattered with debris The only place that I can breathe is with the Bonnie Rowan trees I'll never leave, I have to leave, I'll never leave I have to leave, I have to leave

But the American version is obviously