* Song: * Album: * Interpretation: * Notes: Mother Father Son No Heroes

Mother Father Son

They waited on the platform,
Mother, Father, Son
Parents took the young man's arms,
Three got on
Small talk to pass the journey
On a Dublin train
Going to the Dublin Doctor
Young man sat in pain

He said "Rebel's words and Rebel swords
They pushed into my face
Shakespeare and Latin verse and
Words of market-place
But now I make my journeys
To sweeter greener lands
My friends and I
We dream of dreams
You would not understand."
I asked him if within his dreams
Or in his secret plans
He could see a ray of hope at all
For the people in this land

[chorus]
He said: "Love to see the walls and fences
Coming down around their ears
Love to see them standing naked,
With all their naked fears."

Mother said: "He's just a young man"
He will change in time."
(He said) "No I won't go back there
Not this time
Chasing wealth and discipline
Have been your only goals
I feel peace in darker places
in my soul

Always told "Hide your feelings"
Always told "Never show your feelings"
But now I need to know my feelings"

[chorus]

Waving from the platform, watch them moving on
together in the city, Mother, Father, Son
Mother, Father, Son
Mother, Father, Son
Mother, Father, Son.