{"id":11941,"date":"2016-03-19T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/cold-old-fire\/"},"modified":"2016-03-19T20:00:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T20:00:37","slug":"cold-old-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/cold-old-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold old fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8216;Cold Old Fire&#8217; by<strong> Lynched<\/strong>, a Dublin-based folk group, was written after the financial crisis in Ireland that would end up sending 80,000 people a year overseas. &#8216;The Button Factory&#8217; refers to the main Dublin dole office. See also Poets, Presidents and Politics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gAH1KX_FAu8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>We always sing, even when were losing<br \/>&#8216;Cos Dublin&#8217;s drone is hard enough especially when you&#8217;re down and you&#8217;re boozing<br \/>We sing the Oul&#8217; Triangle and then the Tommy Ryan<br \/>&#8216;Cos all the world&#8217;s a jail and we can&#8217;t remember why<\/h4>\n<p>Why we agreed to live and lie in embers of a cold old fire nobody remembers<br \/>They hand the ashes back to me down the button factory, we&#8217;re cattle at the stall<\/p>\n<p>We look for signs that Dublin&#8217;s heart&#8217;s still beating,<br \/>That concrete and glass and peelers and mass, they haven&rsquo;t stopped the people from screaming,<br \/>Being trapped by all the cameras you&#8217;re inclined to stay at home,<br \/>And forget some songs were written to remind you you weren&rsquo;t born<\/p>\n<p>Born to live and lie and die in embers of a cold old fire nobody remembers<br \/>They hand the ashes back to me down the button factory, we&#8217;re cattle at the stall<\/p>\n<p>We see the cracks under the foundation,<br \/>Smouldering on the faces of the people on the drip of isolation,<br \/>We hear the sounds come streaming across the crackling air,<br \/>The broken words of swine who would tell us that we were<\/p>\n<h6>Born to live and lie and die in embers of a cold old fire nobody remembers<br \/>They hand the ashes back to me down the button factory, were cattle at the stall<br \/>And when did we agree to live and lie and die in embers of a cold old fire nobody remembers?<br \/>They hand the ashes back to me down the button factory, we&#8217;re cattle at the stall.<\/p>\n<\/h6>\n<p><em>from Cold Old Fire, released May 25, 2014<\/em><br \/><em>Composed by Cian Lawless and Lynched<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Cold Old Fire&#8217; by Lynched, a Dublin-based folk group, was written after the financial crisis in Ireland that would end up sending 80,000 people a year overseas&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1665],"tags":[1793],"class_list":["post-11941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-2","tag-financial-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}