Music and lyric: Loreena Mckennitt
This glancing life is like a morning star
A setting sun, or rolling waves at sea
A gentle breeze or lightning in a storm
A dancing dream of all ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Loreena McKennitt
I wish I was in Carrighfergus,
Only for nights in Ballygrant
I would swim over the deepest ocean,
Only for nights in Ballygrant.
But the sea is wide, and I can't swim over.
Neith...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Loreena McKennitt
Come by the hills to the land where fancy is free
And stand where the peaks meet the sky and the rocks reach the sea
Where the rivers run clear and the bracken is gold in the sun
A...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Loreena McKennitt
Werein the deep night sky
The stars lie in it's embrace
The courtyard still in it's sleep
And peace comes over your face
'Come to me' it sings
'Hear the pulse of the land
The ocea...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Loreena McKennitt
Fear no more the heat o' th' sun
Nor the furious winters' rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages.
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-swe...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Loreena McKennitt
I walk the streets of Dublin town
It's 1842
It's snowing on this Christmas Eve
Think I'll beg another bob or two
I'll huddle in this doorway here
Till someone comes along
If the la...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Loreena McKennitt
When the dark wood fell before me
And all the paths were overgrown
When the priests of pride say there is no other way
I tilled the sorrows of stone
I did not believe because I co...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Loreena McKennitt
Joyful mystery, the birth of our Lord... This night our Lady and St. Joseph was going up to get registered and, um, they were going down the road and they met this man and he said,...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Loreena McKennitt
Veni, veni, Emmanuel
Captivum solve Israel
Qui gemit in exilio
Privatus Dei Filio
Gaude, Gaude Emmanuel
Nascetur pro te, Israel
Veni veni, O Oriens
Solare nos adveniens
Noctis de...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Loreena McKennitt
Stars were falling deep in the darkness
As prayers rose softly, petals at dawn
And as I listened, your voice seemed so clear
So calmly you were calling your god
Somewhere the sun...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Loreena McKennitt