Freagh

Lyrics

Many miles I've waled alone Scarred and blackened cliff lines On flags of broken stone A ravens skyline Saw pride hard won Where tears fell on the hillsides Ghosts echo in the dawn Bright eyes dance in the fire while I fix my mind upon the ten years I Called Clare my home Fell in love and raised a family there My brothers hearts and ours entwined A whilе Bound to the call This heavy land felt tеnder steps each time we rolled headlong Out in the grey Atlantic full of fear where none can run In my mind Freagh upon the heather Your wild walls of stone Come hell or heavy weather Iridescence in the cold Been terrified 'Til I knew strong Spinning wildly in the blackness torn apart and liberated all at once I burned my hands Bitten frost out in the reverie The scars now pale and old Adrift and lost in fog eyes wide And awestruck found a place where I belonged 'Least for a while Spent a decade in a dream Ever outsider though my daughter here was born Dear Galways child Against the grief the madness of the years her freedom spun And in my dreams I saw my sister there beyond us still singin' Freagh upon the heather Your wild walls of stone Come hell or heavy weather Iridescent in the cold Freagh upon the heather Four white walls our home Through all the tears of winter Safe within your lovin' arms Don't you cry my child For your old home If yesterday is dead Then tomorrow never knows Mother times Forever young These ol tides are turning fast I guess we best keep movin' on Can't hold on to the past they say the best is yet to come Here's hopin' Freagh upon the heather Your wild walls of stone Come hell or heavy weather Iridescent in the cold Freagh upon the heather Four white walls our home Through all the tears of winter Safe within your lovin' arms