David Keenan - El Paso (Official Video)

El Paso is a song I wrote as a teenager as an ode to growing up in my hometown of Dundalk.

The song has been with me for years, waiting for me to come full circle in order to sing it fully and freely once again.

It's become a universal hometown song.

Special thanks to: Adam Heffernan for capturing the video,
Dundalk FC for the use of Oriel Park,
Andrew Grafton for the archive footage,
To all those who have sung versions of the song and sent them my way &
to Dundalk itself for the formative experiences that have inspired many of my songs.

Tour dates for 2023 available at davidkeenan.com
The new "CRUDE BOYO EP" is released via Barrack Street Records 24/3/23 across all platforms.

Lyrics:
I was told long ago that you'd learn more on a building site than you would in school,
I don't know who's to know in El Paso.
Friday nights the floodlights you'd hear us roar, sing the town till we die then our throats went sore, we have grown on the road to El Paso.

Photographs on your mantelpiece they fade,
Sitting at some bus stop in the pouring rain,
In your mind things that you've seen ,
Now the shoe is on the other foot, how does that feel?
If you wanna go I'll take you there, feel the rain on your face in the morning air,
Let's go back, take me back to El Paso.
You go around with your tie and your briefcase,
With a look on your face like I'm a waste of space,
Take me back, take me back to El Paso.

Oh take a walk, take a walk down the echo road I'll be waiting
don't you know i'll be waiting.

And if you wanna go I'll take you there, feel the rain on your face in the morning air,
Take me back, let's go back to El Paso.
You go around with your tie and your briefcase,
With a look on your face like I'm a waste of space.
Take me back, take me back, take me back let's go back,
to El Paso, to El Paso, to El Paso, to my El Paso.