Bread, Meat, Peas & Rice - Rheostatics

We’ll crawl from the hillside, gonna make our government pay

For peas and rice, peas and rice

We’ll all rise together, grow wise on cries and lay

For peas and rice, heaven please…

Give them peas and rice.

(Bread, meat, peas, and rice.)

Through fall’s foul weather, we’ll stand and fight as one

For peas and rice, peas and rice

An ambush in the heather, on our tether they’ll be stung

For peas and rice, heaven please…

Give them peas and rice.

(Breat, meat, peas, and rice.)

I had a vision of a nightmare world

Where every second was a dollar bill

My world collapsed on me (his world collapsed), my head caved in

Had no choice, had to sell my skin

For some peas and rice.

(Bread, meat, peas, and rice.)

Now the Irish have a saying, in it truth will always ring

For peas and rice, very nice:

«Don't matter who you vote for, you always end up with a king.»

For peas and rice, heaven please…

Give them peas and rice.

(Bread, meat, peas, and rice.)