Drew Dillon - Bringing Me Down Lyrics

The DUP raise their ugly head in time for Halloween
To pledge they'll block equal marriage for at least the next five years
That they're 'not homophobic' but our calls are 'not appealing to their ears'

With a giant card we march on Valentine's Day 2017
With the signatures of a thousand Northern Irish lovers times fourteen
We carry pictures of those we lost, no big drama, no big fuss
A queer valentine to Belfast, from all of us

The Government they think they own us
Their up, their time is done
The Government they crush our shoulders
But I know our time will come
We're not running away, running away
We're gonna fight for today, and carve out our way

You keep bringing me down
You keep muffling the sound that I make
You're not running the world, the boys and the girls
You've got people beneath you will break
You keep bringing us pain
You don't think we should be treated the same
You don't know what you've got; the things that we've not
But you stoke a fire and we're the flames

A battle, we're warriors, lovers, Irish men and women
And we'd take our lead from Heroes old for this battle we fought for winning
There is power in our march, our Card, and a change coming soon
There is power in our movement, in the glint of a pink heart shaped balloon

The Government can't stay together with the country in their care
The Government won't play together, they don't know how to share
We're not running away, running away
No we're gonna fight for today, and carve out our way

You keep bringing me down
You keep muffling the sound that I make
You're not running the world, the boys and the girls
You've got people beneath you will break
You keep bringing us pain
You don't think we should be treated the same
You don't know what you've got; the things that we've not
But you stoke a fire and we're the flames

You protect the right to criticise
This stalemate isn't right
Another bill shot down
While another grave is found

We demand that more should be done
Than just 'legal from 81'
My boys they lift me high
So I'll scream towards the sky

You keep bringing me down
You keep muffling the sound that I make
You're not running the world, the boys and the girls
You've got people beneath you will break

I float above a cloud of thousands, our hope lifts me from the ground
Today we'll make them hear us, or we'll fight and tear them down

You bring me down
You bring me down, you bring me
You bring me down
Bring me down, bring me