Tell Me Why

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and globalization Destroying the nation for my generation They won't ban the guns but they'll ban those that busk They repealed the Eighth now act on Climate Change Tell me why people are sleeping in the streets of Galway Tell me why in America you'd get shot in school hallways Tell me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