Sally O'Brien Lyrics

Poor Sally O'Brien she couldn't stop crying

Her world had just fallen apart

Young Fergal Keane had shattered her dream

He'd left her and broken her heart

Her ma said, Don't let it destroy you, forget it

There's plenty more fish in the sea

Her da he just laughed and said, Don't be so daft

You're better off if you ask me

But Sally, she wouldn't, or maybe she couldn't

Accept the advice she was given

Life had no season, no rhyme or no reason

Without him it wasn't worth living

Although she'd been used and was hurt and confused

It's true what they say, love is blind

Sally was free but she just couldn't see

They were just being cruel to be kind

Sadly deluded, her mind it concluded

That one day they'd get back together

Turn back the clock and gently unlock

The love that would last them forever

So this was her plan to win back her man

But the truth she was soon to discover

Who should she meet, as she walked down the street

There he was in the arms of another

Sally she turned, the bridges were burned

She knew there and then it was ended

The race it was run, the damage was done

She knew it could never be mended

When the penny it dropped and the pain of it stopped

She recalled what her da said about him

And after a while when, she'd learned how to smile again

Found the world still turned without him

So Sally O'Brien was done with the crying

She put all her troubles behind her

The hand she'd been dealt was cruel, she felt

But time as they say's a great healer

Nothing's more true and Sally came through

Though at times it all hung by a thread

So reach out and grab it 'cos life has a habit

Of turning your dreams on their head.