+ How Many Moons (trilogy)
We stood and raised the barely
The sun was up and young
Our compass set on nature
Ranging innocence and love Well maybe all these things that disappear
Come back again in time
And who's to say that you and I
Won't walk this road again
And walk along the valley
To where the thrill was found
We leave the fields of clover
And the summer all around [How many moons
Have gone since first I loved you
Now I can't let go
For Spring leaves us the green and Breston corn] Sometimes you come in like a whisper
And blessest as the wind
Blowing in one direction
And the beauty never ends
Then you come in like a hammer
And every bond we forged breaks loose
Formed by the hammer
And by the hammer we were proved [Refrain] A vision I want to see
A vision far from this moon [Refrain]

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This is the only road I know
And this is the only golden river home
Don't let go

---------All Things Must Change--------------
The road was long, our steps were new
The storms of innocence
Strong and fresh they blew
Directions turned, love changing hands
We stood like gods before
Our maps and plansThat morning dawn, with no regrets
We stood in line, we laughed
In silhouette
On the learning ground
The place we loved the best
That was our final time
Out in the west But all, all things must change
So don't look back
Just walk awayNow the cars come like rivers
Night comes like madness
Songs come like trains
Headlights flash in the darkness
Memories twist in the rain
And we feel these flickering moments like silk the flags of our days
And the past is only the part of life
We've thrown away

The river's dark
In constant flow
Swollen by winter streams
And the melting snow
I still see your face
Across the miles
To where some kindness showed
Our fate entwined
But all things must change
So don't look back, just walk away

+ The Dancing Floor
Beside the braes of dawn
On clear new morning
Down where the lilies stood in bloom
I knew that I was just a stranger in this world
A wind just passing through
So we dared to stray
In these golden ways
We never never knew what to do
And the world kept coming screaming and all it's news at me
Well, now I've got news for you

[So let me take you down to the dancing floor
You can walk out on the crowd
Let us waltz away what's left of the living years
In celebration of the loved]

No nothing's all that it seems
In the strands and the waves
Our steps renewed our lips confess
We were stranded at the alter of unknown delights
Down on the road to happiness
And as the sunlight fills
The highland hills
It's all become so clear somehow
That the days we spend
Were not made to end
We stand forever in their glow

[Refrain]

It's all glitz and sparkle down on the dancing floor
We can turn our lives around
Just leave behind that wretch that you have been
With the fool that I'd become

Now the hours are few
And the days can be so cruel (so cruel)
Yes, the night are getting long (the nights are getting long)
And that joy that you would always bring
It'll always keep me strong

[Refrain]

It's all glitz and sparkle tonight on the dancing floor
We can turn our lives around
Just leave behind that wretch that you have been
With the fool that I'd become

+ Sraideann na roinn eorpa (Streets of Europe)
Chuir mi mo chùl ri Lunnainn
An samhradh air m' aodann
'S mi air sràidean mòr na Roinn-Eòrpa
'S mi le mo rùn, le m' anam, mo bratach
Mo ghrian, mo ghealach ùr
'S sheas mi 's na àiteachan 's an do sheas m'athair
'S ioma cogadh a tha ann airson saorsa
Dà fhicead bliadhna 's an dileab air fhàgail
Briathran do linn 's do sheòrsa

Bail e beag anns a' Ghearmailt
Gruagach cho bòidheach
Le suilean lan sonas is bròn
Thuirt i, "Am bheil fhios agaibh fhèin, an t-sochair 'tha agaibh
Tha eallach eachraidh air mo ghualainn cho trom"
Chrath sinn lamhan, 's dh'fhalbh i a' seinn
An dàn tha domhainn 's gach anam de dhaoine
Dh'fhag mi i le blas beag de mo dhùthaich
Dh'fhag i mi leis a chompanas ùr

Tha na brataich a' snamh
An cuan de dhathan
Do chànan binn an cluas na Roinn-Eòrpa
Tha na sràidean beò le cainnt 's togair
Sràidean am Babel ur
'S thusa mo rùn, tha cothrom mad choinneamh
Tha do chliù air 'dhol tarsainn an cuan
Thusa tha meanbh, bi làidir, bi àlainn
Taisbean do chànan, bi buan

traduction

I have put London behind me
The summer is on my face
And I am on the big streets of Europe
With my love, my flag
My sun and my new moon
I stood in the places where my father has stood
Many are the wars of freedom
Forty years and the legacy is still with me
The words of his kind and generation

A small town in Germany
A beautiful young girl
Her eyes full of sorrow and joy
She said, "Are you aware of the privilege you enjoy
The burden of history lies heavy on my shoulders"
We shook hands and she went on her way singing
The song that is deep in the soul of all people
I left her with a small part of my own country
She left me with the fellowship of a new age

The flags are swimming
In a sea of colour
My language melodious in the ear of Europe
The streets are alive with conversation and purpose
Possibilities for a new Babel
And you my love have opportunity before you
Your renown has crossed the ocean
You that are the small, be strong, be beautiful
Reveal your great language, be everlasting

+ That Other Landscape


Eyes down on the petrol cloud
Morning to the queues
Christ's arrived on the sports pages
Zen in the market news
You're bleeding the flash lane dry
Day after day
Your sunny mountain climbed
Your morning all in chains

[You want to live
You know you do
That other landscape
Where the river runs through
That other landscape
Put me in touch
That other landscape
Need it so much]

Take a dive on the squalor pile
Underworld cut loose
Underloved to underfed
A spiral to a fuse
The teenage needles rise
Like a kiss
Your planet's pleasure gained
In the thrill of emptiness

[Refrain]

+ Only the Brave


Twelve o'clock at night
Streets of many corners
The lunar river winds
Down the closes and the lanes
The night skips the sleeping years
And re-awakes the memory
Takes me along the way
To the places of the heart

The days of summer came
Days of many heartache
Not to love is not to live
Not to live is not to feel no pain
So unlock this heart of stone
Teach me the ways of mystery
In the places were they say
Only the brave can walk alone

You took me through this town
And you took me to the moment
That makes angels lose their wings
And makes poets lose their wonder
But I have found in you
A love line pure and lasting
May your heart hold true
And your nights run long

+ Travellers
We stood in the moonlight and the river flowed
And God walked through the garden
A mist came falling down to the ground
I watched it all with no obligation

[Travellers on an olden road
With all the baggage of our days and years
We're life's carriers to the next unborn
And I'll carry you
Till this great race is over]

This is your sister, this is your brother
This is your mother, not somebody's dream
And all our lifetimes drifted through the trees
To that place of moments where all was certain

[Travellers on an olden road
With all the baggage of our days and years
We're life's carriers to the next unborn
And I'll carry you
Till this great race is over]

We stood in the moonlight
And the river flowed...

+ Smalltown
Tell me where, oh where has summer gone
It hasn't come this year
You always cry when swallows fly
With doubts in search of dreams
He's a working man, can't you understand
And he sweats for a man's release
But you've seen the lie in the children's eyes
As heroes turn to tears

[Tell me how
This life won't let you go
Tell me how
This same old fool
Keeps coming back to you]

It's the same old scene it's always been
Men flex muscle fast
And men pull punches after hours
When the moments spell is cast
So you take your chance at the smalltown dance
Where romance is up and gone
It's Friday night, you're another man's wife
And you waltz that lie till dawn

[Refrain]

Tell me where oh, were has summer gone
It hasn't come this year
You always cry when swallows fly
They confirm your darkest fears
When a bottle strikes down one man's life
And his children's lives as well
The full moon pulls you many times
To the outer edge of hell

[Refrain]