+ The Old Boys
The old boys are leaving
Leaving one by one
Where young birds go flying
Spread your wings and run
But over the fields by the drystone walls
An eagle will come no more

Welcome were the headlands
St Valery behind
No medals worth wasting
On memories of sand
But sweet is the breeze over Raasay
The morning awaits you there

What kind of heroes
Here for us now
Where leaders, stone preachers
Minnows on flow
But low hang the lights over viewfield
And this night will day see no more

The old boys are leaving
Leaving one by one
Where young birds go flying
Spread your wings and run
But over the fields by the drystone walls
An eagle will come no more

+ Proterra
As I walk along these shores
I am the history within
As I climb the mountainside
Breaking Eden again

Dark the day, dark the night
The warring dust, the morning tribe
Crushed by a million suns
Here the heart of you lies

Over land and sea
I'll come fighting for you
Over land and sea
A dawn is breaking before us

Proterra
Take this hand
The open wound, the promised land
Breaking the waves, spread the oars
Cast our badge for the shore

+ Day of Days
We sailed on sun soaked seas
And we sailed
Late on the day of days

And desire and pride and anger
Fade away
Washed on the sea of change

[Boarding the morning of the free
Re-born in the dawning, complete]

We came in search of saviours
Round the world
And through the cities and the towns

There was a crowd no man could number
Walking down
Taking the chosen road

[Refrain]

We passed through the last aurora
And we rise
Soul kites in a diamond sky

[Refrain]

I knew a man who couldn't see
I knew a man who couldn't feel
I knew a man whc couldn't talk
I knew a man who couldn't walk
I knew a man, I knew a man, I knew a man

+ 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]

+ Gabriel's Sword
In the middle of the schoolyard
Where the bombs have lain to rest
There's a child in the darkness waiting

But the answers in the history books
Are slowly burning down
And the words that spell forgiveness
Wear a thorny crown

[Gabriel's sword will pierce me no more
I'll let my spirit soar so high
Sure as it all comes
From the father to the son
We've got to learn to seak the truth to fly
And it's a beautiful sky]

There is much that I have seen
In this world they say is free
That would make it almost seem untrue

Many times I've walked the line
Longing for the other side
The only thing that changed my mind was you

[Refrain]

+ From The North
From the north came a warrior
Baring burdens dark and deep
I've a will and I've a wanting
And miles to go before I sleep

I have horses in my stable
I have sons fit to fight
I will bring this to your table
If you ride with me this night

From the north came a warrior
Baring burdens dark and deep
I've a will and I've a wanting
And miles to go before I sleep

Blood red wine, a toast for heroes
And harping till the morning light
Come the dawn the road will lead us
If you ride with me this night

+ An Toll Dubh (The Dungeon)
Taobh cuil an dorais cha bhi grian
Suidh aig bord
Cha bhi biadh is cha bhi fion
Taobh cuil an dorais cha bhi grian
Cha bhi biadh is cha bhi fion

Thainig e a sasainn ann
Thainig e
Le eachaibh luath is iuchair throm
Thainig e a sasainn ann
Le eachaibh luath is iuchair throm

Air lar 'san toll dhubh cha bhi grian
Cha bhi gealach
's dubh an oidhche chaidleas sinn
Air lar 'san toll dhubh cha bhi grian
's dubh an oidhche chaidleas sinn

Le eiginn ar n-eirigh as ar suain
Le eiginn ar n-eirigh as ar suain
An gaidheal 's a leabaidh
An gaidheal na shuain
Le eiginn ar n-eiridh as ar suain

traduction

On the other side of the door
There will be no sunlight
Sitting at the table
There will be no food and no wine
On the other side of the door
There will be no sunlight
There will be no food and no wine

He came from the south
He came
On a fast horse with a weighty key
He came from the south
On a fast horse with a weighty key

On the dungeon floor
There will be no sunlight
There will be no moon
Dark will be the night of our sleeping
On the dungeon floor
There will be no sunlight
Dark will be the night of our sleeping

It is with difficulty that we will rise from our slumber
It is with difficulty that we will rise from our slumber
The Gael has gone to bed, the Gael is asleep
And it is with difficulty that we will rise from our slumber

+ There's A Need
From the core of the dark
To the spark of the heart
There's a need

Sons falling into souls
Ships breaking on the shore
There's a need

It's the way her eyes were cast
Through the sockets of the past
There's a need

From the west to the east
From the famine to the feast
There's a need

From the strong to the weak
From the desert to the streets
There's a need

From the left to the right
From the darkness to the light
There's a need

From the governors of war
To the pawns who heed the call
There's a need

She's sleepwalking with the damned
A photo etched in her hands
There's a need

We're all waiting in the night
Together for the light to take us there
The promise of a greater fate
With all your dreams complete
In the warm last place

We are many millions more
We have not been here before
There's a need

We've come so far so fast
And the first are now last
There's a need

From the little child in arms
To the leaders of the land
There's a need

Hopes are towers in the skies
Dreams are wings taking flight
There's a need

It started rising round the world
Like any other sun to start a day
The promise of a greater fate
With all your dreams complete
In the warm last place

+ Faileas Air An Airigh (Shadow On The Sheiling)
Tha faileas air an airigh
Faileas air an airigh
Tha 'n long a-muigh 'ceann a bhaigh
Air madainn cheitean trath

Tha grian ar cuimhne ag eiridh
Grian ar cuimhne ag eiridh
A' siubhal sraidean duthaich ghalld'
Tro bhailtean saoghal chein

Tha'm feasgar cuin 's na siantan blath
Tha grian 's an iar mar mheall de'n or
An cuan mar sgathan gorm gun sgleo
Is bu mhor mo mhian bhi 'n uibhist leat

Togaidh sinn ar fonn an ard
Togaidh sinn ar fonn an ard
`s ged' tha mi fada bhuat
Cha dhealaich sinn a' chaoidh

traduction

There's a shadow on the sheiling
A shadow on the sheiling
The ship is waiting
At the head of the bay
Early on a may morning

The sun of our memory is rising
The sun of our memory is rising
Walking the streets of foreign countries
And the cities of another era

The evening is calm and the skies are warm
The sun is in the west, a great ball of gold
The ocean is like a mirror, blue without blemish
And great is my desire to be in uist with you

We will lift up our voices
We will lift up our voices
Although I am now so far from you
We will never sever

+ Heading to Acadia
Instrumental

+ All The Miles
From the landing of Portree
To the wild Cape Breton coast
Every mile there in between
And on every word I spoke

[You never left me all the miles
You were with me all the way
On every cloud that drifted by
Every wave my bow did break]

Where the fire meets the sky
In the land of coal and steel
I still dream you by my side
I feel I always will

[Refrain]

And it makes a poor man strong
To have a sense of home
And the ground on which I stand
Knows no distance to me when

[Refrain]

+ A Reiteach (The Reiteach)
Bi mo leannan geal is alainn
Le briathran geallaidh thar chaich
Bi sinn druidhe an smuid an aoibhnis
An oidhche phosas mo run

Nam shuidhe cluinntinn ceol a' reitich
's duilich cur an aghaidh dan
A' feitheamh son a lamh a mhaireas
An oidhche phosas mo run

Tog glainne mhor na slainte
Thoir an cearcall chun an lar
Theid sinn cuairt taobh cuil na gealaich
An oidhche phosas mo run

Tha i na seasamh aig a` reiteach
Theid na reultan bun os cionn
's theid a ghrian air chall gu madainn
An oidhche phosas mo run

Togaidh sinn horo ghealaidh
Horo ghealaidh horo togaidh
Sinn horo ghealaidh
Horo ghealaidh horo

traduction

My love will be unblemished
With the words of devotion
Beyond all others
We will be drenched in the stupor of joy
The night my love weds

I am sitting listening to the music of the reiteach
It is impossible to stand against destiny
Waiting for the eternal bond the night my love weds

Lift high the glass of celebration
Take the circle to the dance floor
It will take us to the far side of the moon
The night my love weds

She is now standing at the reiteach
There the stars will lose alignment
The sun will go missing till morning
The night my love weds

Let's celebrate
Let's celebrate

+ Angels from the Ashes
Instrumentale