+ Introduction
By Calum

+ Protect and Survive
The red hot sun burns up the hill
The winter's bride, the summer's king
I tramp these acres and I feel
Once upon a time
And then it seemed that everything
You saw and touched and felt was real
You turned the tap and you turned the wheel
Breathing free

[Once in a lifetime
You live and love
Once in a lifetime
You die
Once in a moment
The sun goes down
Protect and survive]

Now you search the open evening skies
Trace the memories in your eyes
The prophet's hard rain and the deluge lie
In tears around your door
Once there were trees and livestock here
A mother's love, the warnings clear
But you chose to turn away from fear
Breathing free

[Refrain]

Now there's a faceless cross on a distant hill
A wasted voice, a silent scream
Where the lovers love and the dreamers dream
You stand and dream alone
You took your sacrifice to the gods of war
Traded your children's lives for a mess of gold
And you beat your ploughshares into swords
Breathing free

[Refrain]

+ A Dh'innse Na Firinn (To Tell You The Truth)
An cuala tu an naidheachd
A chuala mi an de
Tha an saoghal ga chraobh-sgaoileadh
Co shaoileadh a leithid!

A dh' innse na firinn
Cha creidinn sa na briathran

traduction

Did you hear the news
That I heard yesterday
The whole world is broadcasting it
Who would have thought!

To tell you the truth
I could not believe the words

+ The Engine Room
Instrumental

+ Big Songs of Hope and Cheer
The satellites are raining down
On the international room
There's nothing secret, nothing sacred anymore
All the soldiers of the world are turning history around
They're with me now, they're breaking down the door

Pictures in a room
I can't take it anymore
Pictures in a room
Somebody help me please
'Cause I can't sing the paeans of hope in a torn world

One mother's daughter has seen her brothers
Taken to the shadowlands
Now she's waiting for six soldiers to return
And another mother's daughter's down on channel 21
She's opened up her life to let it burn

And the satellites are raining down
On a Sunday afternoon
She's opened for the world to take it all
Where we face our sweetest demons in the hands of flesh and love
She's aching at the stations of the fall

[Pictures in a room
I can't take it anymore
Have I awakened to a strange land
Pictures in a room
Somebody help me please
'Cause I can't sing the paeans of hope in a torn world]

And the company say, give us more of these
Big songs of hope and cheer
Hits and hooks and riffs that shine as new
And the refugees come in, live and dying, miles across the snow
And there's nothing that this stunning world can do

[Refrain]

+ Tartan Special
Talk by Bruce

+ An Sabhal Aig Neill (Neil's Barn)
Craicann searrach agus or
Thall aig an sabhal, an sabhal aig Neill
Se suid an sgeul na Ath-mhor
Thall aig an sabhal, an sabhal aig Neill
'S iomadh Ia. 's loniadh Ia, chaidh sinn suas ga h-iarraidh
Thall aig an sabhal, an sabhal aig Neill
Le crap spaid is puchaid iarainn

Tha na gillean ruith gun sguir
Thal! aig an sabhal, an sabhal aig Neill
Ginealachan. ginealachan. sniomh ma mo shuilean
Thall aig an sabhal, an sabhal aig Neill
Sibhse a sheas aig ceann a bhathalch
Thall aig an sablial, an sabhal aig Neill
Tha sibh air nVinntinn gach Ia

Innse sinn an sgeul dh'an chlann
Thall aig an sabhal, an sabhal aig Neill
An aite seileach bar a bheann
Thall aig an sabhal, an sabhal aig Neill
'S lomadh Ia, 's lomadh Ia. 'bhitheas e air n'intinn
Thall aig an sabhal, an sabhal aig Neill
An sgeul a rnhaireas ri gu sioraidli

Horo eiribli o
Horo ro bho, ro ho-ro

traduction

The skin of a foal, and gold
Over by the barn. Neil's barn
That is the Ahmore story
Over by the barn. Neil's barn
Many's a day we went up to search for it
Over by the barn. Neil's barn
With a broken spade and an iron bucket

The boys are running without stopping
Over by the barn. Neil's barn
The generations weaving away in front of my eyes
Over by the barn, Neil's barn
But those that used to stand at the corner of the byre
Over by the barn, Neil's barn
They are on my mind each day

We will tell the story to the children
Over by the barn, Neil's barn
The place of willows on top of the hill
Over by the barn, Neil's barn
Many's a day it will be on their minds
Over by the barn, Neil's barn
The story that will go on forever

Horo boys o
Horo ro bho, ro ho-ro

+ The Stamping Ground
April comes to the new grass on the hills of gold
Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o

Where winter falls in the long cold north
Black waters wait in the ice and snow
Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o

Black waters wait in the ice and sun
Through the glens where your great rivers run

[Back on the stamping ground
To where it all began
Back on the stamping ground
We come again]

So we tend and we nurtur all the seeds we've sown
Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o

Through all the frosts and rains the west winds blow
Till the fields turn ripe and a harvest stored
Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o

Through all the frosts and rains the west winds blow
We will wait here till the winter's end

[Refrain]

So it's blood on blood, our bond, our word
Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o

For the strength and weakness of our days
Is to take you there on a journey shared
Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o

So take this thing, make it sparkle and glow
It's much greater than we may ever know

[Refrain]

(Traduction: There's a new grass growing on the top of the soil)

+ Flower of the West
Sunburst on the morning moar
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 and all I know
Is touching the sacred earth
Warming the hallowed ground]

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

[Refrain]

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
I 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

[Refrain]

+ Cnoc Na Feille (The Hill at the Market Stance)
Gun dragh gun d' chuir e an t-eagal oirnn
Solus Cnoc na Feille
(Hoginn oro horo illean horo eile)

Bha feadhainn ann a chunnaic e
'S cach ag inns' nam breugan
(Hoginn oro horo illean horo eile)

Ach muinntir an dà shealladh
Chitheadh iadsan co-dhiubh e
(Hoginn oro horo illean horo eile)

Hoginn o, hoginn o, horo horo illean
Hoginn o, horo illean, hoginn o horinn o

Tha lach is geadh is curracag
'Nan caraidean air a' mhachaire
(Hoginn oro horo illean horo eile)

Tha feannag air a crochadh suas
Ceangailt le ròpa
(Hoginn oro horo illean horo eile)

Tha coineanach 'sa ghainmheach
Na sheasamh, abair urchaire
(Hoginn oro horo illean horo eile)

Hoginn o, hoginn o, horo horo illean
Hoginn o, horo illean, hoginn o horinn o

traduction

It is without doubt that it frightened us
The light at the market stance
(Hoginn oro horo boys horo eile)

There were those that could see it
Others liked to believe they could

Those with the second sight
They had no difficulty

The duck, the greylag and the lapwing
Together sharing the machairlands

A dead crow hangs on the fence
Tied with a length of rope

A rabbit is sitting on the sand dunes
Presenting himself a perfect target

Hoggin o, hoggin o, horo horo boys
Hoggin o, horo boys, hoginn o horinn o

+ Maymorning
I'm alive again on a Maymorning
Go to wipe the slate clean follow my dreams
All the yearning buds are here again
With the promise of a new life to come
Spring is here again

The sun is melting over the hills
All our roads are waiting to be revealed
For this day in history has brought us to here
Now it's all there for the taking
The day is what you see

The light's returning, the work is in hand
All the cynics have vanished from where we stand
All the chances wasted are drawing me near
And all around there's new life rising
From the winter fields

I'm alive again, I'm alive again
I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive again x2
I'm alive again

+ Bruce's Interview

+ One Thing
Walk out the door, your eyes filled with tears
Or stay and confront me and face all your fears
Linger in silence neither distant or near
It's not going to change a thing

Lay down beside me and question my faith
Or hold me with all the love we have made
Share all your secrets or hide them away
It's not going to change a thing

The picture is painted, the colours are bold
One for each season of life I suppose
It no longer matters, the story is told
It's not going to change a thing

Lie here and talk of whatever you want
Or dare to compare all the things we've done wrong
What care the world when we're all dead and gone
It's not going to change a thing

The picture is painted, the colours are bold
One for each season of life I suppose
It no longer matters, the story is told
It's not going to change a thing
It's not going to change one thing

+ Solus Na Madainn
Instrumental

+ The Water Is Wide
Canadian Traditional Song

[The water is wide, I can't cross o'er
And neither I, the wings to fly
Build me a boat that can carry two
And we shall row, my love and I]

There is a ship that sails the sea
She's loaded deep as deep can be
But not as deep as the love I miss
And I know not if I'll sink or swim

[Refrain]

Now love is gentle and love is kind
The sweetest flower, when first it blooms
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like the morning dew

I leaned my back against an oak
Thinking it was a trusty tree
But first it bent, and then it broke
And so my false love did onto me

[Refrain]

Build me a boat that can carry two
And we shall row, my love and I

+ Air An Tràigh (On the Strand)
'S b'fheàrr gun robh mi 'r ais a rithis
Coiseachd cas ruisgte air an tràigh
le mo dha laimh na mo phocaid
's i ri mo thaobh Anna mo ghraidh

Bha sin òg is bha sin sporsal
Cluichd le sòlas is le gàir
Air a' mhonadh 's air an locha
'S measg an arbhair anns a' bhathaich

Is nuair a thig e gu am feasgair
'G iarraidh a' chruidh shuas air a' bheinn
'S deanamh dhachaidh air ar socair
Togail orain 's togail rann

Bhiodh sinn sgith nuair nochadh oidhche
'G ol bainne fuar ‘taobh teine blath
'S bhiodh sinn graineil dol dhan leabaidh
Ach a-maireach 'g èiridh trath

traduction

I wish that I was back there again
Walking barefoot on the strand
My two hands in my pockets
And you by my side, Anne my love

We were young and full of joy
Playing with contentment and laughter
On the moor, on the loch
And amongst the corn in the barn

When it came to the late afternoon
Bringing the cattle in from the hill
Lingering on our way back home
Singing songs

We were tired when night fell
Drinking cold milk beside the warm fire
With no desire for sleep
And rising early the next morning