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On sun soaked seas
Baiting the hand lines Neoscan at the oars Turning the bows into the Morea wake For the thrill of it all Across the middle of the bay A line of faces in the waiting hour And I could see The other world was here Can you hear it now We're just on the brink Returning homewards Together on Alone O mollaidh sinn An gaol 's an gras A thug dhuinn bith Cho umhail fo ghrein 'S i dealradh sios Air reultan cein. And it was all there waiting Just as we reached the door Just as we reached the door |
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In there, Out there (repeat several times)
Then I began to see the sun and the moon As I wandered round in orbit On this land that I called home No Messiah up in the sky That I could ever see, that I could ever know To find my soul Standing in the face of the gale A raging night on the island I passed an old man with a dog On a hillside Head bent in the weight of years Headed back indoors Lost myself in a T.V. Three women in a kitchen in Chechnya Staring at the world with frightened eyes And all I had done below the sun Would count for nothing In the turning of the world When there is nowhere left to go You walk alone and watch the void Eclipse it all Nothing but the sun Nothing but the sun Nowhere to run Nothing but the sun |
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For the roll of the wind
As we sail across the water The roll of the sea As we're taken through the night The dimming lamp of day Leaves the crimson foam and spray Across the face of the mighty Atlantic In this cradle we found love In our lifetimes we were broken By the spirit we were turned Here we touched the hope divine And in the rapture and the charm Came the tranquil and the calm On the rage of the mighty Atlantic Deepest grave, supreme deceiver Brave new worlds and cursed emotion Let your people go, bring me a saviour White doves rise above the ocean For the brightness of the lights As they stretch across the water The excitement of the night As we're carried through the seas There's a welcome lies in store The strongest arms I've ever known In the homes of the mighty Atlantic For the roll it is gentle As the waves, they guide you over Full new moon across the stern flag Our different worlds in constant motion For the roll of the wind As we sail across the waters The roll of the sea As we're taken through the night I'm coming home it's late And you know I just can't wait For the shores of the mighty Atlantic For the shores of the mighty Atlantic For the shores of the mighty Atlantic |
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She was the fairest
And her eyes shone of blue I first fell in the autumn term There was nothing I could do School lovers swarmed Around the courtyard wall Then walked on up The rapture road aglow She kept me warm that winter And winter turned to spring We never looked round corners To the changes they could bring Her love was a dart And I swore she broke my heart The world would never turn The same again The things that are And things that never can be Are things that we must bare To share our destiny I saw her again last summer Where the hard rains fall The grass grew long around her feet Where the years took their toll She once meant the world to me But we by-passed destiny On the road not taken The road unknown (Chorus) She was the only one Eternity blindness could see Our moments are rush and gone All our pictures incomplete (Chorus) (Chorus) Oh, the things that are (Chorus) |
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Sun comes up on these mountain braes
And it's breaking on the high ground And the rolling road And the rolling river Are all that I have to hold There in your arms There in your arms I went walking in the world The voice of many waters In the waking cascade In the breathing we wait On the rolling road On the rolling road May you always be freedom On the rolling road And the rolling river Are all that I have to hold There in your arms There's a presence in the wind And it holds all departed And I'm here in the power And the long passing hour The light rushing in Great great gentle giver All the craving I see Falling way beyond me On the rolling road On the rolling road May you always be freedom And the rolling road And the rolling river Are all that I have to hold There in your arms There in your arms |
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Gealach air an acairseid
Ceatharnach 'na fheileadh "Te bhan, te bhuidhe bhan" Mu meadhan oidhche (repeat four times) Clann-nighean og 's balaich a' bhaile a' cruinneachadh mu bhuth Dhoilidhe 's mu bhuth Chroinns A' coiseachd, 's a' suiridhe 's a' caithris na h-oidhche Gealach air an acairseid Ceatharnach 'na fheileadh "Te bhan, te bhuidhe bhan" Mu meadhan oidhche (repeat two times) Tionndadh a' chlair air ais na bliadhnaichean abachaidh a' ghraidh. Am Bagh Cuilcee Aird an Aiseigs Lag an Domhainn, Ceann a' Bhaigh. Tionndadh a' chlair air ais, meadhan oidhche, gealach s gealladh. Sheas an cruthachadh stolda air rathad a' steisean. Sheas na eathraichean aig tamh Gealach air an acairseid Ceatharnach 'na fheileadh "Te bhan, te bhuidhe bhan" Mu meadhan oidhche (repeat two times) Bhidh sinne 's crathadh lamh againn Is bilean blath toirt phog" Cridhe baidheil caoimhneil Cho tairis ris an or An guth s an t-seist a' glaodhaich "Far an robh mi'n raoir" Na bliadhnaichean a' tionndadh Briathran mor Mhicleoid Gealach air an acairseid Ceatharnach 'na fheileadh "Te bhan, te bhuidhe bhan" Mu meadhan oidhche (repeat ten times and fade out) --oOo-- A moon on the anchorage A champion, a kilt "A fair haired girl, a golden fair haired girl" Around midnight (repeat four times) The young girls and the village boys meeting around Doilidhs' shop, and around Croinns' shop Walking out, courting and night visiting A moon on the anchorage A champion, a kilt "A fair haired girl, a golden fair haired girl" Around midnight (repeat two times) Turnining the recording back. The years of ripening love The Bagh Cuilce, Aird an Aiseig, Laggandoin, Bayhead Turnining the recording back, midnight, a moon and a promise, The creation stood still on the curing station road All of the boats stood at rest A moon on the anchorage A champion, a kilt "A fair haired girl, a golden fair haired girl" Around midnight (repeat two times) "In that place there will be clasping of hands And warm lips to kiss" The heart of affection and human kindness Sincere, pure as gold The voice and the chorus proclaming "Where was I last night" The years are turning back The big words of Macleod A moon on the anchorage A champion, a kilt "A fair haired girl, a golden fair haired girl" Around midnight (repeat ten times and fade out) |
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he air was swaying round the first guitar I remember
We crossed the river by the Ostrum wall 'neath the stars To where the wedding filled the hall My father sang a song Crossing the river, caught in the rain Crossing the rhythm, caught in the rain Chased Cathy round the trestles at the edge of the eightsome We watched the lovers round the lodge at the edge of the sea White lights and wooden boards We watched the village take the floor Crossing the river, caught in the rain Crossing the rhythm, caught in the rain There is so much I could say to you, but Tonight I'm sticking to the past like glue When life gets tough, when times get hard You have to know exactly who you are Arm in arm, hand in hand You take this woman, you take this man Spirit dancing evermore Endless circles round the floor Last night I drove my children down by the river Past the windows of the hall and the dusts of our years Then the radio came on They said "someone's playing our song" Crossing the river, caught in the rain Crossing the rhythm, caught in the rain Crossing the river, caught in the rain Crossing the rhythm, caught (caught, caught) in the rain |
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Beside the braes of dawn
One clear new morning Down where the lilies stood in bloom I knew that I was just a stranger in this world A wind just passing through So we dared to stay In these golden ways We never never knew what to do And the world kept coming screaming All it's news at me Well, now I've got news for you So let me take you down to the dancing floor You can walk out on the crowd Let us waltz away what's left of the living years In celebration of the loved No nothing's all that it seems In the strands and the waves Our steps renewed our lips confess We were stranded at the alter of unknown delights Down on the road to happiness And as the sunlight fills The highland hills It's all become so clear somehow That the days we spend Were not made to end We stand forever in thier glow So let me take you down to the dancing floor You can walk out on the crowd Let us waltz away what's left of the living years In celebration of the loved It's all glitz and sparkle down on the dancing floor We can turn our lives around Just leave behind that wretch that you have been With the fool that I'd become Now the hours are few And the days can be so cruel (so cruel) Yes, the night are getting long (the nights are getting long) And that joy that you would always bring It'll always keep me strong So let me take you down to the dancing floor You can walk out on the crowd Let us waltz away what's left of the living years In celebration of the loved It's all glitz and sparkle tonight on the dancing floor We can turn our lives around Just leave behind that wretch that you have been With the fool that I'd become |
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(Original in Gaelic)
Choimhead mi ri m'chul Gun neimh gun truas Larach mo chasan mu sgaoil 'S iad a triall tron an uir Gu toiseach 's gu deireadh uair 'S gu na laithean soilleir buan Thairis Air a ghleann Thainig thu nuas Gu fasach truagh 'S thog thu am faileasbhon a ghleann Buidheachas is naire An tomhas air gach lamh Togaidh sinn do chliu an aird Air slighe Dhia O mollaidh sinn An gaol 's an gras A thug dhuinn bith Cho umhail fo ghrein 'S i dealradh sios Air reultan cein. English translation Beyond the Valley I looked behind me Whithout rancour without pity To where my footprints were scattered On their journey through the dust From the beginning to an end of time And to the bright everlasting days Beyond the valley You came down To a barren wilderness And you raised the shadow From the valley Gratitude and shame The measure in each hand We will proclaim your name in voice On Gods way We will praise The love and the grace That gave us our existance So lowly beneath the sun As it poured out ist light On alien stars. |
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This world's not my home
I'm a stranger to the storm Save me, save me Where the race is quickest The tide runs strong Save me, save me A big sky above my West winds blow Sailing long distance Breaking the foam There's a lighthouse Shining in the dark A lighthouse Standing in the black All the world's a ship Shipwrecked on the seas Breaking up in pieces We're clinging to the reef There's a lighthouse There's a sky full of trouble Lifetimes and fear Save me, save me Talking the soundings Now the tempest is here Save me, save me And daylight is breaking On out-streched hands Lost on the ocean Reaching for land There's a lighthouse Shining in the black A lighthouse Standing in the dark All the world's a ship Shipwrecked on the seas Breaking up in pieces We're clinging to the reef There's a lighthouse There's a lighthouse Shining in the black A lighthouse Standing in the dark All the world's a ship Shipwrecked on the seas Breaking up in pieces We're clinging to the reef There's a lighthouse A lighthouse A lighthouse Holdin' on (repeat three times) You got to keep holdin' on holdin' on Oh holdin' on holdin' on Oh, you got to keep holdin' on (repeat three times) You got to keep holdin' on (repeat three times) |
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