I
awoke in the dusts of an autumn morning
Faces oil-lit and kneeling
round the family chairs
I never knew that a heart could take such
filling
Spaces everywhere
All the front doors opened and
the men came walking
Suits and shoes, heads of silver and
grey
It´s one short road from a darkened cradle
To the
endless light of day
She walked like a bride down the aisle of her
childhood
The shops, the schoolyard, the church on the hill
Where
she trembled on the day she was touched and broken
Marie was born
again
All ears to the trawler-band in the evenings
Forty
crans and the spirits run wild
The storms, the drownings, the
tables, the drinking
The sea had claimed their lives
There´s
peat smoke rising from the village chimneys
You take your chances
with the red haired girl
All the boats take their rest in the
heart of the harbour
That night in a changing wolrd
Refrain:
And
the ship´s come round
And she´s waiting at the
harbour
Be prepared to get on board
Be prepared
I never knew
that the light of ages
Breaks the way before us
Sail away, sail
away.
Von Calum and Rory Macdonald
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