Runrig - ran Ailein Leaving Strathconon lyrics
rate me<b>Òran Ailein / Leaving Strathconon</b> by <i>Runrig</i><br />eine oidhche geamhradh<br />
Nar sheasamh air an làr<br />
Sheinn sinn òran Ailein<br />
Sèist is rann<br />
'S an trèana ruith cho taibhseil<br />
Mar chuimhne tron a' ghleann<br />
'S iomadh loit nach tig slàn<br />
<br />
LEAVING STRATHCONON<br />
<br />
We're the emigrant ones, <br />
Not the last in the line<br />
You're your father's son, <br />
And I am mine<br />
And all of our northwords<br />
Turn distant and small<br />
In the end they mean nothing, <br />
No, nothing at all.<br />
<br />
Right here's the river's source, <br />
And it flows out to the world<br />
And the heart of Caledonia<br />
Is drowning in the flood<br />
Was there hunger in our striving?<br />
Did the light shine in our dark?<br />
Was everything we ever needed<br />
Always right here from the start?<br />
<br />
Please believe me<br />
Something in me died<br />
Leaving Strathconon<br />
And your mountains behind<br />
Please believe me<br />
Something in me died<br />
Leaving Strathconon<br />
And your father's home behind.<br />
<br />
We stood on a hundred gangways, <br />
That's the way it's always been.<br />
I walked out beyond Calvary<br />
With all my kith and kin<br />
In the war of the world<br />
We conquer and roam<br />
Lie the wounds that stay bleeding<br />
And raw in the soul.<br />
<br />
Please believe me<br />
Something in me died<br />
Leaving Strathconon<br />
And your mountains behind<br />
Please believe me<br />
Something in me died<br />
Leaving Strathconon<br />
And your father's home behind.<br />
<br />
After the raging flame, <br />
The embers burn slow<br />
We're leaving, leaving, leaving, <br />
Till there's nowhere left to go<br />
The seas, the slums, the battlefields, <br />
The shipyards, the tides, <br />
The straths, the glens, the drove roads, <br />
All the prairies and the mines.<br />
<br />
It's a still, autumn morning, <br />
And it covers Loch Meig<br />
And all the trees across the valley<br />
In a blaze of dying green<br />
I've seen too many tail-lights, <br />
Didn't need to say goodbye<br />
We're just souls across a shrinking world<br />
In a distant starlit night.<br />
<br />
Please believe me<br />
Something in me died<br />
Leaving Strathconon<br />
And your mountains behind<br />
Please believe me<br />
Something in me died<br />
Leaving Strathconon<br />
And your father's home behind.
