| 1. (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
grace notes 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
2. alba
air sgiath a' seoladh nan neoil
's an domhain liath
mar dhealbh a' tighinn beo tro na sgothan
's mi a' tilleadh gu tir
alba nam beanntan ard
nan acraichean lom
thairis air na lochan mointich
nan coilltean 's nan gleann
chorus:
alba
alba
ach 'se sealladh leointe is gann
tha an seo aig ceann thall an linn
talamh alainn nan daoine
fhathast an lamhan duine no dithis
cuibhlean stolda mu dheas
na fasaichean a tuath
an taigh-mor falamh an dun-eideann
gun chumhachd gun ghuth
chorus
sibhse chuir achadh ri achadh
taigh ri taigh
gus nach bi ait anns an tir
an gabh sibh comhnaidh air leth
ach 's math dhomh bhith seo an drasd
a cur failt air a' bhlas
'san tir a tha cho ur dhomh an diugh
is a bha i nuair bha mi 'nam phaisd
chorus
english translation:
scotland
this flight is sailing through the clouds
and the blue heavens
the homeland appears like a developing photograph
through the mists as i return to land
i see scotland of the high mountains
and the empty acres
flying low across the moorland lochs
the forests and the glens
chorus:
scotland
scotland
but it's a wounding and a hollow sight
here as we reach the end of the century
the beautiful soil of the people
still in the hands of the few
i see the wheels of industry at a standstill
and the northern lands wasted
and the empty house in edinburgh
without authority or voice
chorus
you that have laid field upon field
house upon house
till there be nowhere for you to be placed alone
in the midst of all the earth
but it is good for me to be here now
as i welcome the warmth
in this land that's as exciting for me today
as it was the day i was born
chorus
3. the greatest flame
like shadows on the wall
you come and you go
through the streets
and the rain that falls down
on our sin
no more goodbyes
forever this way
whenever the greatest flame in the world
starts burning
chorus:
this is our life, and our time
and nothing, is ever going to break us
now we're on our own
always in your eyes
awaking of souls
we gaze out on the road
that brought us up
to this place
the signposts never change
we'll go where they lead
whenever the day to break us comes
we'll not give in
chorus
live the day when the flame is strong
live the day when the flame is strong
come the day when love is gone
take it over, take it over
live the day when the flame is strong
live the day when the flame is strong
come the day when love is gone
take it over
chorus
4. rocket to the moon
here hangs an open landscape
a wild and huge frontier
from a harsh and a barren wasteland
through the grave to the promised field
you came, you trapped, you charted
you laid the railroads and the schemes
and you tamed this land by enterprise
and by the power of your dreams
chorus
but you made this clan great
and you made this nation bloom
and you rose
with your people through the new world
like a rocket to the moon
from the olden coasts of ireland
from the hebridean shores
with the forgotten chosen ones
running from europe in droves
chorus
there's a town in manitoba
they say the windows touch the sky
but across the brine the shipyards close
in this garden flowers die
still the homelands divide us
like your blood red brothers of the plains
but where they grieve a candle still burns
a prayer from a flicker to a flame
chorus
5. abhainn an t-sliagh
chaneil an t-adhar os cionn lunnainn
a nochd soileir no dorch
fada bho abhainn an t-sluaigh
gun sgial air coinneal mor latha
no reultan na h-oidhche
fada bho abhainn an t-sluaigh
an sea s'am baile gun chadal
gun fhois is gun saorsa
fada bho abhainn an t-sluaigh
casan a' gluasad an abhainn an tuil
fada bho abhainn an t-sluaigh
na cuibhlichean's cabhaig
a tionndaidh gun sgur
fada bho abhainn an t-sluaigh
cus ag adhradh beairteas
air altair an tshaoghail
fada bho abhainn an t-sluaigh
cach gun dochas gun dachaidh
air sraidean gun ghaol
fada bho abhainn an t-sluaigh
leis gach dath s'gach creideamh
gach cainnt as gach cearn
fada bho abhainn an t-sluaigh
gach ceist is gach freagairt
sios an abhainn gu cuan
fada bho abhainn an t-sluaigh
english translation:
the crowded river
the skies above ;ondon
are neither clear nor dark
the need to be far from the crowded river
the great candle of daylight
and the stars of the night cannot be seen
the need to be far from the crowded river
in this city that never sleeps
there is no quit no stillness
the need to be far from the crowded river
footsteps keep moving
the need to be far from the crowded river
the river in full flood
the need to be far from the crowded river
the relentless wheels
keep turning without pause
the need to be far from the crowded river
many worshipping wealth at the world's altar
the need to be far from the crowded river
others without hope or home
on streets that hold no love
the need to be far from the crowded river
with the various races creeds and languages
from all corners of the globe
the need to be far from the crowded river
each question and answer
rushing down the river to the ocean
the need to be far from the crowded river
6. protect and survive
the red hot sun burns up the hill
the winter's bride,
the summer's king
i tramp these acres and i feel
once upon a time
then it seemed that everything
you saw and touched and felt was real
you turned the tap
and you turned the wheel
breathing free
once in a lifetime
you live and love
once in a lifetime
you die
once in a moment
the sun goes down
protect and survive
now you search the open evening sky
trace the memory in your eyes
for the prophet's hard rain and the deluge
lie in tears around your door
once there were trees and livestock here
a mother's love, the warnings clear
but you chose to turn away from fear
breathing free
choru
protect and survive
protect and survive
now there's a faceless cross on a distant hill
a wasted voice, a silent scream
where the lovers love and the dreamers dream
you stand and dream alone
you took your sacrifice to the gods of war
traded your children's lives for a mess of gold
and you beat your plough-shares into swords
breathing free
chorus
7. rhythm of my heart
across the street the river runs.
down in the guter life is slipping away.
let me still exist in another place,
running down under cover
of a helicopter blade.
the flames are getting higher
in effigy.
burning down the bridges of my memory.
love may still 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.
oh, baby.
oh, the 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'l be sailing.
oh, yeah.
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.
oh, the 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.
oh, the 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.
the 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.
8. 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 wanted to ride with yuri gagarin
as he circled all around my world
hearthammer and i lose control
hearthammer
lying under the covers
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 post rubber soul
hearthammer and i lose control
hearthammer
hearthammer and i lose control
hearthammer
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 stefano 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
hearthammer and i lose control
hearthammer
hearthammer and i lose control
hearthammer
the wonder never grows old
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9. an ubhal as airde
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
chorus:
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
chorus
english translation:
the highest apple
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
chorus:
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
chorus
10. wonderful
when all the world is quiet and still
and doubts run deep as the ocean
through troubled years and broken dreams
to the place where all silence has spoken
so wonderful, too wonderful
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
11. the mighty atlantic
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
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
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 atantic
for the shores of the mighty atlantic
12. flower of the west
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
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
warming the hallowed ground
walk on
walk on
walk on
sunrise
the colour frontier
the ageing light
the sight that knows no fear
i look over orinsay
to the trumisgarry shore
to aloter and the road to ahmore
the silent skies
tn innocent heart
holding the moment away
from time in the dark
all i see, all i know,
is touching the sacred earth
warming the hallowed ground
i survive the childhood universe
and istep the naked heath
where the breathing of the vanished
lies in acres round my feet
past 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 crogary and maairi
ii 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
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
warming the hallowed ground
flower of the west
13. every river
you ask me to believe in magic
expect me to commit
suicide of the heart
and you ask me to
play this game without question
raising the stakes
on this shotgun roulette
every river i try to cross
every hill i try to climb
every ocean i try to swim
every road i try to find
all the ways of my life
i'd rather be with you
there's no way
without you
but you came to me
like the ways of children
simple as breathing, easy as air
now the years hold no fears,
like the wind they pass over
loved, forgiven, washed, saved
every river i try to cross
every hill i try to climb
every ocean i try to swim
every road i try to find
all the ways of my life
i'd rather be with you
there's no way
without you
14. siol ghoraidh
clann mo theaghlaich
clann mo theaghlaich
clann mo theaghlaich fhein
clann mo theaghlaich
clann mo theaghlaich
clann mo theaghlaich fhein
ochd deug seisreach
air raontainn aird a' mhorrain
na fir a' treabhadh
an la a thainig na sleitich
siol ghoraidh
mac ruairidh
clann raghnaill
clann dhomhaill
linn gu linn
ainm gu ainm
air an sgiath seo dh 'uibhist
's mi beo an drasd
clann mo theaghlaich
clann mo theaghlaich
clann mo theaghlaich fhein
dubh dath na fala
a dhoirt 'na tuil gu talamh
saighead claidheamh
tro chairdeas corp an udail
siol ghoraidh
mac ruairidh
clann raghnaill
clann dhomhaill
linn gu linn
ainm gu ainm
air an sgiath seo dh 'uibhist
's mi beo an drasd
(chorus)
linn gu linn
ainm gu ainm
air an sgiath seo dh 'uibhist
's mi beo an drasd
english translation:
the genealogy of goraidh
eighteen teams of horses
on the field of aird a mhorrain
the young men were ploughing
on the day the sleat people came
the genealogy of goraidh
the sons of ruairi
the sons of ranald
the children of donald
the children of my own family
generation to generation
From one name to another
my time is now
to walk this corner of uist
black was the colour of the blood
that flowed like a flood to the land
the arrow, the long sword
through the generosity of the udal
people
the genealogy of goraidh
the sons of ruairi
the sons of ranald
the children of donald
the children of my own family
(chorus)
15. hearts of olden glory
there's thunder clouds
round the hometown bay
as i walk out in the rain
through the sepia showers
and the photoflood days
i caught a fleeting glimpse of life
and though the water's
black as night
the colours of scotland
leave you young inside
there must be a place
under the sun
where hearts of olden glory
grow young
there's a vision
coming soon
through the faith
that cleans your wound
hearts of olden glory
will be renewed
down the glens
where the headlands stand
i feel a healing
through this land
a cross for a people
like wind through your hands
chorus
16. skye
how can't you see
the wilderness growing free
time wounded and scarred
stroking away the years
it's hard to believe
but memories are old ghosts
mountains of black and gold
sunsets falling over the moor
oh take me there
's na horo eile, horo bho
's na horo bho, hillean o
's na horo eille ho, take me there !
you take your dream
you make life what you feel
appearances lead to deceive
this drama so far from me
destiny on facts aching wings
wild geese flow over your shores
hearts sailing over the trees
oh take me there !
's na horo eile, horo bho
's na horo bho, hillean o
's na horo eille ho, take me there !
chi mi'n t-eilean uaine
tir nam beanntann arda
ceo a'tuiteam tron a'ghleann
na shineadh air do raointeann
17. loch lomond
by yon bonnie banks
and by yon bonnie braes
where the sun shines on loch lomond
where me and my true love
spent many days o
on the banks of loch lomond
twas there that we parted
in yon shady glen
on the steep sides of ben lomond
where the broken heart
it knows no second spring
resigned we must be
when we're parting
you'll take the high road and
i'll take the low road
and i'll be in scotland a'fore ye
where me and my true love
will never meet again
on the bonnie bonnie banks
of loch lomond
ho, ho mo leannan
ho, ho mo leannan bhoidheach
you'll take the high road and
i'll take the low road
and i'll be in scotland a'fore ye
where me and my true love
will never meet again
on the bonnie bonnie banks
of loch lomond
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
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