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1. urlar
instrumental
2. ard
madainn Di-haoine 's duthaich fo sgoth
's mi sgith le cuid smalan,
mi-mhisneachd is bron
seo an deicheamh la dhan
a'Ghiblean 'sinn fo ghruaim a rithist
an co-dhunadh a cheannaich
Na daoine aig pris
tha spiorad nan daoine
Nas soilleir na ghealach
Nas doimhne na'n cuan
Geigh sinn ar n-aite 'san t-shaoghal
's an ginealach ur
ard: blar nan daoine
ard: guth is saorsa
ard: tha sinn gluasad
Gu h-ard theid sinn suas
's iomadh trioblaidtha romhainn '
Nis Gaidheal agus Gall
's mi le aon suil air eachdraidh,
aon suil mo chlann
ach cum creideamh nad bheatha,
sonas nad chridhe
Chan e seo deireadh rathaid
ach toiseach linn
tha spiorad nan daoine
Nas soilleir na ghealach
Nas doimhne na'n cuan
Geigh sinn ar n-aite 'san t-shaoghal
's an ginealach ur
ard: blar nan daoine
ard: guth is saorsa
ard: tha sinn gluasad
Gu h-ard theid sinn suas
(Chorus)
Chan urrain dhomh fuireach
an taigh 'tha fo sgoth
ach le creideamh is dochas
u deireadh mo la
tha an lasair nad anam
aig meadhan do bhith
Nas laidir's nas motha
Na riaghaltas no righ
(Chorus)
english translation
high
Friday morning and the country
Is under a cloud
But I am tired of sorrow,
Pessimism, and gloom
this is the tenth day of april
and we have been let down again
the decision that our people
have bought at a price
the spirit of the people
Is brighter than the moon
Deeper than the ocean
we will find our place in the world
In a new generation
high: the peoples struggle
high: a Voice and self-determination
high: we are moving
we will reach up there
many troubles now confront us,
highlander and Lowlander
as I keep one eye on history,
One eye on my children,
Keep belief in your life,
Joy in your heart
this is not the end of the road,
But the start of a new age
the spirit of the people
Is brighter than the moon
Deeper than the ocean
we will find our place in the world
In a new generation
high: the peoples struggle
high: a Voice and self-determination
high: we are moving
we will reach up there
(Chorus)
I can not live in the house
Of despondency
But in faith and in hope
till the end of my days
the spark in your soul
Is the centre
Of your whole existence
and it is bigger and stronger
than any government or King
(Chorus)
3. edge of the world
all the homes on the globe
are like the television in your eyes
a cross guarding your heart
the living years a sacrifice
a shiver at the door in the night,
Clouds cross a black moonlight
rushing on down to the sound
Of a turning world
there's a south by sou'westerly
Force eight coming in strong
across the continental shelf
From the cold grey malin beyond
the need to keep control
the need to stand alone
at the edge of the world
On the edge of the world
On the edge of the world
the adrenalin infrastructure
Bringing on it's troubles some more
all the laws of the jungle
stranded on your latest shore
But the waves hold the healer force
the years disappear like a ghost
somewhere out of the sight of the night
and the light of day
Now civilization groans
and the news reel cries
Like a drowning man
his life in front of his eyes
Oh the need to keep control
the need to bare the soul
at the edge of the world
On the edge of the world
On the edge of the world
and the man from st. Kilda
went over the cliff on a winter's day
On the edge of the world
On the edge of the world
4. 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
5. 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 your 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
(Chorus
6. the wire
we listened into the Ice age
and we built up man round the Picts
and the daybreak hammered out it's warning
to the weak
we dreamed on moor with passion
and on the long lochs bluer than eyes
'till the mists of bygone ages
heard our cries
I've seen us among thousands
all of one name waiting to run
and when the charge came heather on heartbeat
steel on gun
the old rock leaves us with fossil
From the ancient pagan rites
From the universal inroads
Back to Christ
as we look out over the morning
and the days of this life's spring
and the joy of Gaelic's lifeblood
made me sing
watching your beauty on this journey
with the flick of youth in your eyes
Let us sow this olden heartland
reap in time
transmitting, transmitting
Breaking down the wire
transmitting, transmitting
Breaking down the wire
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7. precious years
it's all over now,
no more summers in heaven
after world war 2 wed
and a life of ups and downs
i see it now, precious even on paper
a young man and his bride
and someone to make time stand still
but now i know
and i don't want to believe it
where does it leave you now
that the precious years are gone
all things remain
to ignore and outlive you
from the man in the moon
to the green hills outside your door
alone you came, so alone you must go now
there's no mountain on earth
can ever outlive your soul
but now i know
and i don't want to believe it
where does it leave you now
that the precious years are gone
i know you well,
you'll be nothing but grateful
never let it be said
they were spent in thoughtless ways
warm winds blow
'cross the ties that bind forever
for a place in the sun
and for the hearts of love a home
but now i know
and i don't want to believe it
where does it leave you now
that the precious years are gone
8. 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
9. 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 i step 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
10. only the brave
twelve o'clock at night
streets of many corners
the lunar river winds
Down the closes and the lanes
the night skips the sleeping years
and re-awakes the memory
takes me along the way
to the places of the heart
the days of summer came
Days of many heartache
Not to love is not to live
Not to live is not to feel no pain
so unlock this heart of stone
teach me the ways of mystery
In the places were they say
Only the brave can walk alone
You took me through this town
and you took me to the moment
that makes angels lose their wings
and makes poets lose their wonder
But I have found in you
a love line pure and lasting
may your heart hold true
and your nights run long
11. 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
12. pog aon oidche earraich
an saoghal, sia uairean
obair la ri cul
teaghlach gabhal dhan a'mheas
pailteas, slainte, is gaol
an ruis a tuiteam sios mu'm chluasan
an ear mheadhain am brot cho dorch
is thusa, uilc is a mhuirt is a shabaid
na mo bheatha a h-uile oidhche
o luaidh be siod an gradh
a dh'fhag mi ceangailte ruit an drasda
co shaoileadh an rud a dh'fhas
bho phog aon oidhche earraich
an greim cho teann's araid
mar ord na mo dhorn
a 'ghealach bha cho soilleir
's a gheall a leithid dhuinn
bha sinn mar longan seolaidh
air cuan buidhe og a 'chridhe
mu coinneamh clann an t-saoghil's theaghlaich
gun ghuth no gaire, dia, no biadh
o luaidh be siod an gradh
a dh'fhag mi ceangailte ruit an drasda
co shaoileadh an rud a dh'fhas
bho phog aon oidhche earraich
co as an dainig na reultan, thuirt mi
co as an dainig grian
tha sinn cho leointe fo na ghealach seo
anam craidhte seachad air ifrinn fheinn
ach tha thusa brosnalchadh nam bliadhnaichean
le saidhbreas seachad air mo dhith
cho gheal ri sneachd gach uile gheamhradh
an t-oran gaoil m'fhaosaid chiontach fheinn
o luaidh be siod an gradh
a dh'fhag mi ceangailte ruit an drasda
co shaoileadh an rud a dh'fhas
bho phog aon oidhche earraich
o luaidh be siod an gradh
a dh'fhag mi ceangailte ruit an drasda
co shaoileadh an rud a dh'fhas
bho phog aon oidhche earraich
english translation
a kiss one spring evening
the six o'clock world
the days work over
family, taking of the fruits
of plenty, good health, and love
russia is falling down around my ears
the middle east in a broth of darkness
and you, evil, murder, and fighting
in my life every night
oh love
what power there was in that embrace
that has left me in union with you today
who could ever have foreseen
all that has grown
from a kiss, one spring evening
the grasp that was so firm and special
like a hammer in my fist
the moon that was so bright
and promised so much
we were like sailing ships
on the young, yellow ocean of the heart
confronted by children, and the world family
without voice, laughter, a god, or food
oh love
what power there was in that embrace
that has left me in union with you today
who could ever have foreseen all that has grown
from a kiss, one spring evening
so where do the stars come from, i said
from where did the sun appear
we are so wounded below this moon
souls tortured beyond hell itself
still you keep bringing inspiration to my years
with blessings beyond my need
whiter than the snows of each winter
the song of love, my confession of guilt
oh love
what power there was in that embrace
that has left me in union with you today
who could ever have foreseen all that has grown
from a kiss, one spring evening
oh love
what power there was in that embrace
that has left me in union with you today
who could ever have foreseen all that has grown
from a kiss, one spring evening
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