LORENNA MCKENNITT

THE OLD WAYS




The thundering waves are calling me home unto you
The pounding sea is calling me home unto you

On a dark new year’s night
On the west coast of Clare
I heard your voice singing
Your eyes danced the song
Your hands played the tune
T’was a vision before me.

We left the music behind as the dance carried on
As we stole away to the seashore
And smelt the brine, felt the wind in our hair
And with sadness you paused.

Suddenly I knew that you’d have to go
your world was not mine, your eyes told me so
Yet it was there I felt the crossroads of time
And I wondered why.

As we cast our gaze on the tumbling sea
A vision came o’er me
Of thundering hooves and beating wings
In the clouds above.

Turning to go I heard you call my name,
Like a bird in a cage spreading its wings to fly
“The old ways are lost,” you sang as you flew
And I wondered why.

The thundering waves are calling me home unto you
The pounding sea is calling me home unto to you

The thundering waves are calling me home unto you
The pounding sea is calling me home unto to you

The thundering waves are calling me home unto you
The pounding sea is calling me home unto to you

The thundering waves are calling me home unto you
The pounding sea is calling me home unto to you



THE MYSTIC´S DREAM



A clouded dream on an earthly night
Hangs upon the crescent moon
A voiceless song in an ageless light
Sings at the coming dawn
Birds in flight are calling there
Where the heart moves the stones
It's there that my heart is calling
All for the love of you

A painting hangs on an ivy
Nestled in the emerald moss
The eyes declare a truce of trust
And then it draws me far away
Where deep in the desert twilight
Sand melts in pools of the sky
When darkness lays her crimson cloak
Your lamps will call me home

And so it's there my homage's due
Clutched by the still of the night
And now I feel you move
Every breath is full
So it's there my homage's due
Clutched by the still of the night
Even the distance feels so near
All for the love of you.



STOLEN CHILD



Where dips the rocky highland
of sleuth wood in the lake
there lies a leafy island
where flapping herons wake
the drowsy water rats
there we've hid our fairy vats
full of berries
and of reddest stolen cherries.

chorus
come away oh human child
to the waters and the wild
with a faery hand in hand
for the world's more full of weeping
than you can understand

where the wave of moonlight glosses
the dim grey sands with light
by far off furthest rosses
we foot it all the night
weaving olden dances
mingling hands and mingling glances
till the moon has taken flight
to and fro we leap
and chase the frothy bubbles
whilst the world is full of troubles
and is anxious in its sleep.

chorus
Where the wandering water gushes
from the hills above glen car
in pools among the rushes
that scarce could bathe a star
we seek for slumbering trout
and whispering in their ears
give them unquiet dreams
leaning softly out
from ferns that drop their tears
over the young streams

chorus

away with us he's going
the solemned eyed
he'll hear no more the lowing
of the calves on the warm hillside
or the kettle on the hob
sing peace unto his breast
or see the brown mice bob
round and round the oatmeal chest.

chorus

for he comes, the human child
to the waters and the wild
with a faery hand in hand
for the world's more full of weeping
than you can understand.


AGRADECER A JOSE JUAN MI COMPI FRIKI DE LAS PRACTICAS DE FARMACIA, QUE ME ENSEÑO A ESTA MUJER, YA QUE EL FUE A UN CONCIERTO DE ELLA EN ALICANTE HACE POQUITO, Y TAMBIEN PORQUE EL ME HA RECOMENDAO QUE FUERA AL CIRCO DEL SOL, COSA QUE HAREMOS MAÑANA LETY Y YO, Y QUE TENGO MUCHAS GANAS DE IR.

Y DESDE AQUI LE AGRADEZCO AUNQUE NO SE ENTERE XD EL QUE SIEMPRE ME ESTE AYUDANDO, QUE ME AGUANTA Y QUE ME SOPORTA Y QUE GRACIAS A EL TENEMOS CONVERSACIONES FRIKIS EN EL TRABAJO, Y ME LO PASO MUY BIEN Y ESTOY MUY AGUSTO CON TODOS ELLOS.

Y LO DE TRABAJO ES RELATIVO PORQUE SI ME PAGARAN ENCIMA POR ESTAR ALLI, SERIA LA CAÑA PORQUE SON TODOS MUY MAJOS Y YO PERSONALMENTE ME LO PASO SUPERBIEN CON ELLOS Y SE ME PASA LOS DIAS ENSEGUIDA.