The Rags

In the second in a series of specially recorded acoustic tracks, Daniel performs ‘Bin Bag’ live and acoustic.
Filmed by Will McConnell/Bandwidth Films.

‘BIN BAG’ – ACOUSTIC from The Rags on Vimeo.

We are deranged
We’re pallid and grey
The youth and today is a tasteless display
With no indication of any style
Just uniforms and neckties
Haircare and Saturday nights
Where the lords of a miserable life
Are bitten by their own design
In uniformity’s aisles, where vanity cried:
‘Cover your own backsides’

Oh you’ve gotta go and get a job—another hole
You work until your body decides
It’s had enough of the mind
That traded time for a bottle of wine
And the best leather jacket in town

You fell from that social scene
And you were dressed in those drainpipe jeans
And through a crack in the head
You were forcefully fed
Some information that made you turn green

Oh you’ve gotta go and get a job—another hole
You work until your body decides
It’s had enough of the mind
That traded time for a bottle of wine
And the best leather jacket in town

Jealousy’s the crime and the maladies mine
Love was a drug that I never understood
And ye hope:
If we let go, it might just leave us alone
Our time was never really well invested
Or thoughtfully spent, keeping abreast of the rent
And when I walk home, it’s usually alone
That way I won’t lower the tone
When I kick and I scream and I punch at the air
And I speak to the heavens about losing my hair
We only get a moment, only get a moment
They’ll give me three seconds and leave me with nothing

Oh you’ve gotta go and get a job—another hole
You work until your body decides
It’s had enough of the mind
That traded time for a bottle of wine
And the best knitted jumper in town

I have recently been given cause to rummage through that which either makes me think or makes me sick. This blog gives me the opportunity to share some of my explorations and discoveries with anyone who wants to know what turns me on. Here are but a few things, bright and beautiful pieces that have imbued me with wonder and adoration.

Daniel

Robert Frost

Alexander Pope

Dubliners – Luke’s last performance

The Dead

James Connolly