+Rhythm of my Heart

Across the street the river runs
Down in the gutter life is slipping away
Let me still exist in another place
Running under cover
Of a helicopter blade

The flames are getting higher
In effigy
Burning down the bridges of my memory
Love may still be alive
Somewhere someday
Where they're downing only deer
A hundred steel towns away

[Oh, rhythm of my heart
Is beating like a drum
With the words "I Love you"
Rolling off my tongue
No never will I roam
For I know my place is home
Where the ocean meets the sky
I'll be sailing]

Photographs and kerosene
Light up my darkness
Light it up, light it up
I can still feel the touch
Of your thin blue jeans
Running down the alley
I've got my eyes all over you, baby

[Refrain]

Oh, I've got lightning in my veins
shifting like the handle of a slot machine
Love may still exist in another place
I'm just yanking back the handle
No expression on my face

[Refrain]

+Wonderful

When all the world is quite and still
And doubts run deep as the ocean
Through troubled years and broken dreams
To the place where all silence has spoken

Immeasurable, invisible
The moment golden before me
I will walk with you through the beautiful gate
My hands and heart wide open

So wonderful, too wonderful
So wonderful, too wonderful

+(Stepping Down the) Glory Road

Footprints around the world
Your beauty in the blue
Stepping down the Glory Road

Let's go dancing for survival
To the lyric of your youth
Stepping down the Glory Road

The way you sing will shine out
Illuminate the way you grow
Stepping down the Glory Road

Capture your heart it's breaking
To celebrate your giving
Gracenotes on every heartstring
The beauty in the pure
Stepping down the Glory Road

So resurrect the bards
Liberate the word inspired
Stepping down the Glory Road

You know that joy like great art
Should take you to the skies
Stepping down the Glory Road

The dark side of the soul
You've never known you never will
Eisd ri eubh do mhian
Stepping down the glory road

Eisd ri eubh do mhian
Stepping down the glory road

Eisd ri eubh do mhian
Stepping down the glory road

+Hearthammer

With the eyes of a child
The wonder of it all
I used to search the stars at night
And I felt so safe and small
Sweet sounds from a Merseytown
And my nursery God
I wante d to ride with Yuri Gagarin
As he circled all around my world

Lying under the covers
With the radio on
Settle down with Caroline
As she sailed all summer long
Sweetheart of The Rodeo
Mining Hearts of Gold
I think it was somewhere pre Stand Up time
Somewhere post Rubber Soul

There was the first caress
There were the Labour years
There was the man that walked the moon
Something I never really believed
The Di Stephano twists
The Charlton goals
Now I'm still here with the eyes of a child
The wonder never grows old

Hearthammer
And I lose control
Hearthammer
The wonder never grows old

+Solus Na Madainn
Instrumentale

+Ravenscraig

Word came like a hammer
Night fell down like a shroud
And it's caught me drinking, trying to turn back the clock
Through this industrial ghost town

I've known graft and I've voted well
Trying to keep the Lowlands red
But all I gets control in foreign hands
Other colours instead

We never stretched our dancehall dreams
We got it just about right
There's little escape from a working town
And from a working life

I placed my future in the palm of your hand
One autumn friday at the Church of All Saints
There's no investment here in life or in love
And now it's getting too late

All I want is a roof over my head
All I want is a steady job
All I want to do is say I love you
With every penny I've got
And all I think about are those of my name
To give them some kind of chance in life
But the long road running out the strip mill gate
Has got me walking that line

+Harvest Moon

Sons and daughters of the dust
Strangers of time and place
For a while your limbs entwine
Holy marriage of the flesh
But I know your ways
Your ways are not mortal thought
Till the day breaks and shadows run
Run away

[So shine on harvest moon
Cast you might on the ripening corn
And I look at your life
Hold you in my arms
With all the power in the days of youth
In the fullness of love]

Fields run deep in golden swards
Hot summer winds blow through the corn
Cast off your sorrows now you stand
In the presence of the Lord
And your radiance shines
Like the moon of all innocent grace
To know that we dared breathe belief
To love again

[Refrain]

+Pride of the Summer

I still hear the snares in the square
Colours ablaze in the evening
The air was still down the stormy hill
It's good to be young and daring

[Beat the drum, beat the drum
Like a heartbeat
Lonely and strong
Beat the drum]

I still see the blood on the knees
The camans swing without warning
The lads in white at the speed of light
It's good to be young and daring

[Refrain]

Across the bay I can still hear the strains
The two step loud and Blair-ing
We walked hand in hand to the accordion band
It's good to be young and daring

[Refrain]

She was the pride of the summer that year
She was my sweetheart, my lady
We walked the black rock and we stopped by the loch
It's good to be young and daring

[Refrain]

+Satellite Flood

She's late in years in the olden world
Sharing the old morality with the olden girls
Her only guide was the life in her hands
Ways that only the wise could understand

[Satellite Flood
It's a world crusade
And it's pouring down
From the skies like rain
Satellite flood
From a nuclear town
If you don't stem the tide
You'll surely drown]

So they take you down to the global stream
With the third and fourth worlds, the world extremes
Then they home their lasers in on you
And when they hit you they stick like glue

[Refrain]

It's the video beat and the suicide smile
Sex in the wilderness mile on mile
Every hotel room and every bar
American girls and American cars

[Refrain]

+The Apple Came Down

Life support genius at the end of time
The greatest living brain alive
A breath of chance matter from a falling star
The power is sour and reaches far

[The apple came down
It had to fall
Where men grew wise
Minds grew small
Newton and Adam
Lost and found
The apple must fall
To the ground]

There's not long left, it's a race against time
The saint's close, he could lose his mind
Like he lost his body here on planet Earth
When he holds the key to the universe

[Refrain]

A mighty spark to keep him there
Trigger to power, wire to pain
Direct inject pleasure when the going gets rough
Don't believe in God and all that stuff

[Refrain]

The apple came down
The atom must fall

+Flower of theWest

Sunburst
The morning moor
The light of God
The heart of youth
I look around me
My eyes find their rest
On this garden
The flower of the west

Sunrise
The colour frontier
The ageing light
The sight that knows no fear
I look over Orinsay
To the Trumisgarry shore
To Alioter
And the road to Ahmore

The silent skies
An innocent heart
Holding the moment away
From time in the dark
All I see
All I know
Is touching the sacred earth
And warming the hallowed ground

I survive the childhood universe
And I step the naked heath
Where the breathing of the vanished
Lies in acres round my feet
Loch Scadavagh, Loch Fada
And the flatlands to the East
Where the dark blue mass of Eval
Meets the rising rock of Lee
Between the Crogaire and Mairi
I started to descend
Loch Aongais on my left hand side
I look across to Clett
Collies barking on the outrun
Dunlin dancing on the sand
Breakers show round Corran Vallique
And empty the Atlantic on the strand

+An Ubhal as Airde (The Highest Apple)

Comhla rium
A tha thu an drasd
Mo shuilean duinte, mo chuimhne dan
Nam sheasamh a' coimhead
Gach cnoc is gach traigh
Is an siol a dh'fhag thu ann a 'fas

Tha an garradh lan
Le craobhan treun
Le meas a' fas dhuinn ann ri bhuain
Ubhlan abaich
Milis geur
Ach tha aon ubhal nach ruig sinn idir air

[Seididh gaoth is dearrsaidh grian
Tro mheas nan craobhan lin gu lin
Ach thig an la is thig an t-am
Airson an ubhal as airde
Air a' chraobh a bhuain]

Is co 'nar measg
A mhaireas la
Seachad air am is air oidhche fhein
A liuthad uair
A shreap mi suas
Airson an ubhal as airde chur gu beul

[Refrain]

traduction

At present
All you were is with me
My eyes closed, my memory confident
Standing here watching
Each hill and shoreline
With the seed you left
Still growing

The garden is well stocked
With mighty trees
With fruit growing for the whole world
Ripe, sweet
And bitter apples
And the one apple
That is beyond reach

[The winds will blow
And the sun will shine
From generation to generation
Through the trees of the garden
But the day and the hour
Will surely come
To take the highest apple
From the knowledge tree]

Who amongst us
Can exist a single day
Beyond our own time and our own limits
Countless and futile
Are times I've climbed
To reach and taste
The forbidden fruit

[Refrain]

+Times they are Changing

Come gather 'round people wherever you roam,
and admit that the waters around you have grown,
and accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
if your time to you is worth savin'
then you better start swimmin'
or you'll sink like a stone
for the times they are a-changin'

Come writers and critics who prophecise with your pen
and keep your eyes wide,
the chance won't come again,
and don't speak too soon
for the wheel's still in spin
and there's no tellin' who
that it's namin'
for the loser now
will be later to win
for the times they are a-changin'

Come senators, congressmen,
please heed the call
don't stand in the doorway,
don't block the hall,
for he that' gets hurt
will be he who has stalled,
there's a battle
outside and it's ragin'
it'll soon shake your windows
and rattle your walls
for the times they are a-changin'

Come mothers and fathers
throughout the land,
and don't criticize
what you can't understand
your sons and your daughters
are beyond your command,
your old road is rapidly agin',
please get out of the new one
if you can't lend your hand
for the times they are a-changin'

The line it is drawn,
the curse it is cast,
the slow one now will
later be fast,
as the present now
will later be past
the order is rapidly fadin'
and the first one now
will later be last
for the times they are a-changin'

+This Time of Year

The snow lies high around my door
And beyond the Great North Road
There calls this restless soul
To journey home

The wind blows coldly through the trees
But I will feel no fear
To the ones you call your own
Is where I'm going

This time of year
This time of year
At this time I think of you

Sometimes it's hard to close a door
The future can be cold
Another year has turned
And you're not here

A yellow moon runs deep and bright
Where the mountains stand on ice
And a million stars
They fire the skies tonight

You can tell me, flowers never bend
Or that this world's at an end
But don't tell me
That we'll never meet again

+Loch Lomond

By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes
Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond
Where me and my true love spent many happy days
On the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond

Twas there that we parted in yon shady glen
On the steep steep sides of Ben Lomond
Where in purple hue the Highland hills we view
And the moon glints out in the gloaming

[You'll take the high road and I'll take the low road
And I'll be in Scotland afore ye
Where me and my true love will never meet again
On the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond]

Where wild flowers spring and the wee birdies sing
On the steep steep sides of Ben Lomond
But the broken heart it kens nae second spring
Though resigned we may be while we're greeting

[Refrain]

+Our Earth Was Once Green

Across the skies the monuments stand
Shrines of wonder, man worshipping man
Computer ethics mock a dying land

Down below like rats in a cage
Success, survival, two needles in hay
It's Romans One facing Satan's stare

[But mountains are holy places
And beauty is free
We can still walk through the garden
Our earth was once green]

Pull down the forests we need more wood
Extend the grazing we need more food
Burning our bridges before the flood

Out on the oceans where it's relatively safe
It's not so easy being big as a whale
We're all in a race on a bigger scale

[Refrain]

Homosapien, I've had enough
Homosapien, I'm giving up
At best your wisdom's a shot in the dark

So make yourself pretty, make yourself rich
Leopardskin, sealskin, money and sex
Apartheid, genocide, thalidomide, life
It's your choice

[Refrain]