Runrig : Empty Glens

Folk Rock / United-Kingdom
(2003 - Chrysalis Records)
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Lyrics


+ Empty Glens (single edit)
Looking out on all that's been
On all that is and all that's beyond time
I close my eyes in isolation

Here's where the word was sown
All that's grown and all that's passed like ghosts
Through the child to highland generations

[Now we walk in empty glens
Rushes blowing in the wind
A voice that's calling you again
To come back home

Where have they gone, where have they gone
Gone to illusion everyone
In the darkest heart, the pride of man
Will walk alone]

Science breaking down the door
And all the hoardes go rushing through for more
All the thrills of the world, and all her idols

Here the water washed us clean
A deeper peace for all our keenest sins
Washed in these clear, clear crystal fountains

[Refrain]

+ Empty Glens
Looking out on all that's been
On all that is and all that's beyond time
I close my eyes in isolation

Here's where the word was sown
All that's grown and all that's passed like ghosts
Through the child to highland generations

[Now we walk in empty glens
Rushes blowing in the wind
A voice that's calling you again
To come back home

Where have they gone, where have they gone
Gone to illusion everyone
In the darkest heart, the pride of man
Will walk alone]

Science breaking down the door
And all the hoardes go rushing through for more
All the thrills of the world, and all her idols

Here the water washed us clean
A deeper peace for all our keenest sins
Washed in these clear, clear crystal fountains

[Refrain]

+ Running to the Light (radio edit)
Running round the sacred mountain
The rushing stream
Feel the power
In everything
By the water, where the air is clear
Surrender everything

Old hearts grow younger again
They promise bring
The greenest plants are tender
They're full of sap in spring
Empty the places of the mind
Running to the light

Those who stride too far too soon
Will not hold pace
Only the calm
Will win the race
Through the forest, the sea of mountain pine
Surrender everything

Only those who
Greatness see in little things
Worthy are the simple
They're happy in their ways
Self will wither out of sight
Running to the light

Arise soul
Soar above the singing river
Go lying down
Into the ground
Quickened by the stream
When all is said and done
The race moves on

Running, Running

+ Wall of China/One Man (live)
They say the wall of China's seen from the moon
They keep building empires to immortal fools
But where the world goes small you stood alone
To face Goliath and the might of Rome

Where the rock sets hard your arms hit strong
Digging out your road ten thousand paces long
Fragments of survival in the driving rain
With the blood and tears that bare your name

[On and on
The meek, the strong]

They built the wall of China with a million men
They thought their broken promises would wear you down
But they didn't count on things they couldn't see
One island man with heart of steel

[On and on
The meek, the strong]

One Man
One man to change the world
One word to bring it down
One stand to right a wrong
Only the meek can break the strong
Only the meek can break the strong



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