RUNRIG MARA Day in a Boat On sun soaked seas Baiting the handlines Neoscan at the ores Turning the bows into the Morea wake For the thrill of it all Across in the middle of the bay A line of faces in the waiting hour And I could see Thge other world that 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 waitning Just as we reached the door Just as we reached the door Nothing but the Sun In there, out there Then I began to see the sun and the moon As I wandered round in orbit On this land 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 All i had done below the sun Would count for nothing In the turning of the world When there is nowhere left to og You walk alone and watch the wind Eclipse it all Nothing but the sun Nothing but the sun Nowhere to run Nothing but the sun The Mighty Atlantic The roll of teh 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 og, bring me a saviour White doves rise above the ocean The brightness of the lights As they stretch across the water the exitement 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 moon across the sten flag Our different worlds in constant motion 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 Fot the shores of the mighty Atlantic Things That Are She was the fairest And her eyes shone of blue I first fell in the autumn term There was nothign I could do School lovers swarmed Around the courtyard wall The rapure 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 live was a dart And I swore she broke my heart The world would never turn The same again 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 She was the only one Eternity blindness could see Our moments are rush and gone All our pictures incomplete The things that are And things that never can be And things that we must bare To share our destiny Road and The River 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 i 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 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 river 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 Meadhan oidhche air an acairseid Gealach air an acairseid A moon on the anchorage Ceatharnach ´na fheileadh A champion, a kilt "Te bhan, th bhuidhe bhan" "A fair haired girl, a golden fairhaired girl Mu meadhan oihche Clann-nighean og ´s balaich a´balaich a’ cruinneachadh Mu bhuth Dhoilidh, ‘S mu bhuth Chroinns A’ coisechs, ‘S a’ suridhe ´s a’ caithris na h-oidhche Tionndadh a’ chlair air ais, na bliadhnaichean abachaidh a’ ghraidh. Am Bagh Cuilce, Aird an Aiseig, 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 earthraichean aig tamh. "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 na robh mi’n raoir" Na bliadhnaichean a’ tionndadh Briathran mor Mhicleoid Midnight on the Anchorage A moon on the anchorage A champion, a kilt "A fair haired girl, a golden fair haired girl" Around midnight The young girls and the village boys meeting around Doilidhs’ shop, and around Croinns’ shop Walking out, courting and night visiting Turning the recording back. The years of ripening love The Bagh Cuilce, Aird an Aiseig, Laggandoin, Bayhead Turning the recording back, midnight, a monn and a promise The creation stood still on the curing station road All the boats stoos at rest "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 chorus proclaiming "Where I was last night" The years are turning back The big words of Macleod. The wedding The 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 rythm, caught in the rain Chased Cathy round the trestles at the edge of the eightsome We watched teh 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 rythm, caught in the rain Last night I drove my children down by the river Past the windows of the hall and the dust of our years Then the radio came on They said "someone´s playing our song" Crossing the river, caught in the rain Crossing the rythm, caught in the rain There’S 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 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 The Dancing Floor 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 stray In these golden ways We never never kept coming screaming All its news at me Well now I’ve got news for you No nothing’s all that it seems In the strands and the weaves Our steps renewed our lips confess We were stranded at the altar of unkown delights Down onthe 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 the glow Now the hours are few And the days can be so cruel Yes 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 crows 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 aound Just leave behind that wretch that you have been With the fool that I’d become Thairis Air a Ghleann Beyond the Valley Choimhead mi ri m’ chul I looked behind me Gun neimh gun truas Without rancour without pity Larach mo chasan mu sgaoil To where my footsteps were scattered ’S iad a triall tron an uir On their journey through the dust Og toiseach ’S gu deireadh uair From the beginning to an end of time ’S gu na laithean solleir buan And to the bright everlasting days Thairis air a ghleann Beyond the valley Thainig thu nuas You came down Gu fasach truagh To a barren wilderness ’S thog thu am faileas bhon a ghleann And you raised from the shadow of the valley Buidheachas is naire Gratitude and shame An tomhas air gach lamh The measure in each hand Togaidh sinn do chliu an aird We will proclaim your name in voice Air slighe Dhia On Gods way O mollaidh sinn We will praise An gaol ’s an gras The love and the grace A thug dhuinn bith That gave us our existence Cho umhail fo ghrein So lowly beneath a sun ’S i dealradh sios As it poured out its light Air reultan cein On alien stars Ligthhouse This worlds 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 me West winds blow Sailing long distance Breaking the foam There’s a sky full of trouble Lifetimes and fear Save me, save me Taking the soundings Now the tempest is here Save me, save me And daylight is breaking On out-stretched 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 peices We’re clinging to the reef There’s a lighthouse
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