Aaron T. Kelly

Lyrics

The Death of Innocence
Music & Lyrics by Aaron Kelly

Even though you died thirty years before I was born,
gunned down by a soldier in your school uniform
You were my father’s first kiss
This is the death of innocence

And even though you were only 14 years old they shot you right down in the Blutcher Street cold
Holding an ice cream in your right hand
Father Daly said the last rites and that was that

50 years on it’s the same old game
Trying to clear all the children’s names
Manus and Stephen they killed for no reason
They called them terrorists labelled them threats but he was only 15 and Damien 10

And even though you were only 14 years old they shot you right down on the Blucher Street cold
You were number one hundred, thousands more to come I just can’t believe what they have done to the butterfly girl to the butterfly girl

For every civil right that we ever won
Paid with the blood of some mother’s son
The tears they fall from the mother’s cheek
The heads of state they still dare to speak

And even though you were only 14 years old they shot you right down on the Blucher Street cold
You were number one hundred, thousands more to come I just can’t believe what they have done to the butterfly girl to the butterfly girl