Won't See Another One

it was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank
an old man said to me "won't see another one"
and then we sang a song, the rare old Mountain Dew
i turned my face away and dreamed about you

Shane MacGowan's Funeral: Fairytale of New York

the boys in the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay
and the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day



Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
--Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach

Shane MacGowan / Sinead O'Connor: Fairytale of New York