I wish it were the '70s I'd be listening to Planxty
The shops would sell good music, not that Post Malone filth
There'd be no such thing as Tinder, we'd go out to dinner
To hell with the Snapchat, the pub is where the craic's at!
Tell me why people are sleeping in the streets of Galway
Tell me why in America you'd get shot in school hallways
Tell me why we're so connected but yet we're all so lonely
Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why
We useta drink tae and ate some Brown Bread
Now we drink ice coffee and make meth from Sudafed
Pokemon was a card game until the mobile phone craze
And now they're playing fornite I wish that I could give a shite
Tell me why people are sleeping in the streets of Galway
Tell me why in America you'd get shot in school hallways
Tell me why we're so connected but yet we're all so lonely
Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why
Hyper inflation and globalization
Destroying the nation for my generation
They won't ban the guns but they'll ban those that busk
They repealed the Eighth now act on Climate Change
Tell me why people are sleeping in the streets of Galway
Tell me why in America you'd get shot in school hallways
Tell me why we're so connected but yet we're all so lonely
Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why