Well I kissed the day, I was on my way
  From those cold gray 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
  Turnin' all hope to despair
  And the only thing left
  Was to flee from the nest
  That was Life In A Tenement Square:
    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 a trace
  Of the coin they had already spent
  While our mothers asked God
  What was Hell ever for
  When you lived in a Tenement Square
    Grab what's left of the coal
  From the ol' 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 side
  I hear them laugh, with their guns by their side
    Now politicians they dwell
  In that forgotten Hell
  Our misery's been turned into mews
  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
  Turnin' all hope to despair
  And the only thing left
  Was to flee from the nest
  That was Life In A Tenement Square...