Freagh

Many miles I've walked alone

Scarred and blackened clear flies on lines of broken stone

The raven skyline so bright and warm

Where tears fell on hillside ghosts flickered in the dawn

But I was dancing in fire while i faced my mind

Oh here’s the thing that go clear my home

Fell in love and raised a family there

My brothers hearts and ours entwined a while

Bound to the call

This heavy land felt tender 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

At 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 all still singing

Freagh upon the heather

Your wild-walls of stone

Come hell or heavy weather

Iridescence in the cold

Freagh upon the heather

Four white walls of home

Through all the tears of Winter

Safe within your loving arms

Don’t you cry my child

Fear will move on

Your yesterday is dead and tomorrow never knows

Mother time forever young

These old tires are turning fast i guess we best keep movin’ on

Can’t hold onto the past and say the best here’s yet to come, here’s hoping

Freagh upon the heather

Your wild-walls of stone

Come hell or heavy weather

Iridescence in the cold

Freagh upon the heather

Four white walls of home

Through all the tears of Winter

Safe within your loving arms