+ Headlights
The headlights swing across the naked heath
Through the silent miles, the empty spaces
With the drinking boys, the dancing wine
Somewhere outside
The laughing glass burns in your eyes

Elvis is still the king, the long road home
The flushed caress, the trembling heart
The ebb and flow of dancing hands
She's in your arms
Electric chords, accordion bands

O eilean, mairidh do linn
O an talamh m' oige

+ Healer In Your Heart
There's a watcher waiting on the edge of the world
With the thoughts that never darken when the lights go down
In the rythm of the living and the shifting tribe
Through the cities of destruction in these graceless times

In the smalness of one heartbeat, power overthrow
In the oneness of the journey for a homing soul
With the spirits of the mighty here since day began
A shadow rushes through the grasslands to the dying sun

For the universe and the stars are around you now
But the healer in your heart is only a breath away
For there's silence and there's blindness in a raging world
But the healer in your heart is only a moment away

+ Abhainn An T-Sluaigh (The Crowded River)
Chan eil an t-adhar os cionn Lunnainn
A-nochd soilleir no dorch
Fada bho abhainn an t-sluaigh

Gun sgeul air coinneal mòr latha
No reultan na h-oidhche
Fada bho abhainn t-sluaigh

An seo 's am baile gun chadal
Gun fhois is gun saorsa
Fada bho abhainn t-sluaigh

Casan a' gluasad,
An abhainn an tuil
Fada bho abhainn t-sluaigh

Na cuibhlichean, 's cabhaigh
A' tio nndadh gun sgur
Fada bho abhainn t-sluaigh

Cus ag adhradh beartas
Air altair an t-shaoghail
Fada bho abhainn t-sluaigh

Cach gun dochas, gun dachaidh
Air sraidean gun ghaol
Fada bho abhainn t-sluaigh

Leis gach dath is gach creideamh
Gach cainnt as gach cearn
Fada bho abhainn t-sluaigh

Gach ceist is gach freagairt
Sios an abhainn gu cuan
Fada bho abhainn t-sluaigh

traduction

The skies above London
Are neither clear nor dark
The need to be far from the crowded river

Neither the great candle of day
Nor the night stars can be seen
The need to be far from the crowded river

In the sleepless city
There is no stillness, no quiet
The need to be far from the crowded river

Footsteps keep walking
The river in full flood
The need to be far from the crowded river

The relentless wheels
Keep turning without pause
The need to be far from the crowded river

Many worshiping wealth
At the world's altar
The need to be far from the crowded river

Others without hope o r home
On loveless streets
The need to be far from the crowded river

Races, creeds and tongues
From all corners of the globe
The need to be far from the crowded river

All questions and answers
Flowing down the river to the ocean
The need to be far from the crowded river

+ Always The Winner
When you close your eyes
There's a frightened pride that lives for you
That your mother's life and your father's eyes can't hide
You had no choice, didn't ask the dice to fall for you
Still your courage comes like thunder through the skies

So you carry time
Down the tortured line where mysteries go
Well hidden from life's learned and life's wise
Man's useless ways and worthless conversation
Lie well exposed and humbled in your smile

Still you run out in the morning
With the boys and the girls
The miracle of innocence on a head of curls
We'll search every reason
Wherever we roam
To find a place for these broken hearts and bones
We'll keep a fire on the hillsides
After the summer's gone
And we'll wait here
Till the war wounded come home

You're always the winner
The victor and the giver
Somewhere through that winter
You'll never be alone
For evermore the winner
The taker and the giver
Somewhere through that winter
You will not grow old

+ This Beautiful Pain
Day was young and desire was stirred
Summer was all but gone
Light was fading from the side of your face
Sinking low in the corn
All that's constant and wise
I still see in your eyes
It was always this way from the start
Right here where I stand
On the last of the land
But you're still breaking the heart

Now all I have is rushing right through my hands
Sailing over the seas
Down that tide where fresh and salt combine
All victories are released
We who wrestle the years
Have traded our fears
For a glimpse of ecstacy in the dark
turning ice in the fire
But still we're denied
But your still breaking t he heart

The skies turned red without failure
They held their promise and dread till the last
You put all my youth in my future
You put the future back into my past

So shine a light and shine it brightly now
You know it all takes its course
And all the many ways I've tried so hard
To reach this potent source
On the day behind time
Across the divide
Along the cord came all light out of dark
Now I stand amazed
In this beautiful pain
And you're still breaking the heart

+ An Cuibhle Mòr (The Big Wheel)
Na cuibhlichean a' tionndadh
An rathad deas agus tuath
Na cuibhlichean a' gluasad
Mar tha 's aoghal, iad a' tionndadh mun cuairt

Na cuibhlichean a' tionndadh
Gach dùthaich, muir agus tir
Tro' ghleanntan tro' bhailtean
A dh'ionnsaigh an àite agaibh fhèin

An cuibhle mòr nach stad gu bràth
Tionndadh oganaich gu aois
A' nochd tha'n rathad mor n'ar coinneamh
Gun am ànn ach an dràsd

'S ioma là chaidh seachad
A ghaoth a seideadh tro an ùir
'S ioma là bha a' ghrian ag èirigh oirnn
Seasamh anns an eòrna nuair a bha sin òg
Aghmhor, aghmhor
A' ruith tro na raointean 's iad a fàs
Abaich, òrach
Coimhead ri na speuran
'S ioma là, 's ioma là, 's ioma là
Feitheamh 'son a' chuairt

Glaschu. Dun Eideann. Inbhir Nis. Sruighlea.
Steornabhagh. Obar Dheadhainn. An Gearasdan.
Dun Deagh. Lunnain. A' Ghearmailt. Eirinn. Ameiriga.

An cuibhle mòr, an cuibhle mòr

traduction

The wheels keep turning
The road stretches north and south
The wheels keep moving
Like the globe they keep turning around

The wheels keep turning
Through each country, land and sea
Through the glens and the cities
Towards that place you call your own

This is the big wheel, it never stops
Turning our youth to old age
Tonight the road reaches out before us
And the present is the only time we have

Many are the days that have gone
The winds blowing through the dusts of the earth
Many were the days when the sun rose upon us
Standing in the barley when we were young
Joyful, joyful
Running through the fields as they grew
Ripe, golden
Looking towards the open skies
Many days, many days, many days
Waiting for the journey

Glasgow. Edinburgh. Inverness. Stirling.
Aberdeen. Fort-William. Dundee. London.
Germany. Ireland. America.

The big wheel, the big wheel

+ Edge of the World
All the homes on the globe
Are like television in your eyes
A cross guarding your heart
The living years a sacrifice
A shiver at the door in the night
Clouds cross a black moonlight
Rushing on down to the sound
Of a turning world

There's a south by sou' westerly
Force eight coming in strong
Across the continental shelf
From the cold grey Malin beyond
The need to keep control
The need to stand alone
At the edge of the world

The adrenaline infrastructure
Bringing on its troubles some more
All the laws of the jungle
Stranded on your latest shore
But the waves ho ld the healer force
The years disappear like a ghost
Somewhere out of sight of the night
And the light of day

Now civilisation groans
And the newsreel cries
Like a drowning man
His life in front of his eyes
The need to keep control
The need to bare the soul
At the edge of the world

And the man from St Kilda
Went over the cliff on a winter's day
At the edge of the world
At the edge of the world

+ Hearthammer
With the eyes of a child
The wonder of it all
I used to search the stars at night
And I felt so safe and small
Sweet sounds from a Merseytown
And my nursery God
I wante d to ride with Yuri Gagarin
As he circled all around my world

Lying under the covers
With the radio on
Settle down with Caroline
As she sailed all summer long
Sweetheart of The Rodeo
Mining Hearts of Gold
I think it was somewhere pre Stand Up time
Somewhere post Rubber Soul

There was the first caress
There were the Labour years
There was the man that walked the moon
Something I never really believed
The Di Stephano twists
The Charlton goals
Now I'm still here with the eyes of a child
The wonder never grows old

Hearthammer
And I lose control
Hearthammer
The wonder never grows old

+ I'll Keep Coming Home
When I'm away
Please take good care of my heart
And when I'm gone
Say a prayer for love
'Cause there's cities and clouds in my eyes
The empty streets and the raining nights
Wherever the highway unwinds
I'll keep coming home

Love on a wire
Strangers walk out on the town
Long distance words
Outside leave the night to the young
'Cause it's touchdowns, runways and roads
The bright lights, the silver and gold
Wherever the moment goes cold
I'll keep coming home

I'll keep coming home
I'll keep coming home
I'll keep coming home
To you

+ Flower of the West
Sunburst
The morning moor
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

Sunrise
The colour frontier
The ageing light
The sight that knows no fear
I look over Orinsay
To the Trumisgarry shore
To Alioter
And the road to Ahmore

The silent skies
An innocent heart
Holding the moment away
From time in the dark
All I see
All I know
Is touching the sacred earth
And warming the hallowed ground

I survive the childhood universe
And I step the naked heath
Where the breathing of the vanished
Lies in acres round my feet
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 Crogaire and Mairi
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