Reading through all the hotpress.com Twitter and Facebook reaction this morning, it's clear that a lot of you are very taken with the lyrics to 'A Hero's Death', the title-track of the new Fontaines D.C. album, which follows on July 31 when we'll hopefully all be able to go to the record store and buy it.
Needless to say, Pat Carty was straight in (almost no kissing) with this dissection of the track: https://www.hotpress.com/music/fontaines-d-c-heros-death-hot-press-verdict-22814454
"The title came from a line in a play by Brendan Behan, and I wrote the lyrics during a time where I felt consumed by the need to write something else to alleviate the fear that I would never be able follow up Dogrel," singer Grian Chatten tells us. "It’s ostensibly a positive message, but with repetition comes different meanings, that's what happens to mantras when you test them over and over."

So with all that in mind, here are the 'A Hero's Death' lyrics in full so you can sing/snarl along with Grian:

"Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty

Don’t get stuck in the past
Say your favourite things at mass
Tell your mother that you love her
And go out of your way for others
Sit beneath a light that suits ya
And look forward to a brighter future

Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty

Sink as far down as you can be pulled up
Happiness really ain’t all about luck
Let your demeanour be your deep down self
And don’t sacrifice your life for your health
When you speak, speak sincere
And believe me friend, everyone will hear

Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empt
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty

Bring your own two cents
Never borrow them from someone else
Buy yourself a flower every hundredth hour
Throw your hair down from your lonely tower
And if, and if
You find yourself in the family way
Give the kid more than what you got in your day

Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty

Never let a clock tell you what you got time for
It only goes around, goes around, goes around
Take your family name for your own great sins
Cuz each day is where it all begins

And
Don’t give up too quick
You only get one line - you better make it stick
If we give ourselves to every breath
Then we’re all in the running for a hero’s death

Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty
Life ain’t always empty

That was the year of the sneer now the real thing's here."

Meanwhile, the band have contributed a cracking version of 'Big' to the Live At The Windmill album, which benefits both the titular Brixton venue and the local soup kitchen. With black midi, Kate Tempest and Shame also on board, it's well worth a fiver!