Oran Ailein (Leaving Strathconon) letra

Teine oidhche geamhradh
'Nar sheasamh air an lar
Sheinn sinn oran Ailein
Seist is rann
'S an treana ruith cho taibhseil
Mar cuimhne tron ghleann
'S iomadh loit nach tig slan

We're the emigrant ones, not the last in the line
You're your father's son, and I am mine
And all of our northwords turn distant and small
In the end they mean nothing, no-nothing at all

Right here's the river's source, and it flows out to the world
And the heart of Caledonia is drowning in its flood
Was there hunger in our striving, did the light shine in our dark
Was everything we ever needed always right here from the start

Please believe me
Something in me died
Leaving Strathconon
And your mountains behind

We stood on a hundred gangways, that's the way it's always been
I walked out beyond Calvary with all my kith and kin
In the war of the worlds we conquer and roam
Lie the wounds that stay bleeding and raw in the soul

Please believe me
Something in me died
Leaving Strathconon
And your mountains behind
Please believe me
Something in me died
Leaving Strathconon
And your father's home behind

After the raging flame, the embers burn slow
We're leaving, leaving, leaving, till there's nowhere left to go
The seas, the slums, the battlefields, the shipyards, the tides
The straths, the glens, the drove roads, all the prairies and the mines

It's a still, autumn morning, and it covers Loch Meig
And all the trees across the valley in a blaze of dying green
I've seen too many tail-lights, didn't need to say goodbye
We're just souls across a shrinking world in a distant starlit night

Please believe me
Something in me died
Leaving Strathconon
And your mountains behind
Please believe me
Something in me died
Leaving Strathconon
And your father's home behind

Runrig - Letras

• 18th July
• A Dh'innse Na Firinn
• A Kiss one Spring Evening
• A Reiteach
• Alba
• All the Miles
• All Things Must Change
• Always the Winner
• An Cuibhle Mor
• An Dealachadh
• An Ros
• An Sabhal Aig Neill
• An Toll Dubh
• An Ubhal As Airde
• An-Duigh Ghabh Mi Cuairt
• And The Accordions Played
• Angels from the Ashes
• Atoms
• Beloved Gregor
• Beyond the Valley
• Big Sky
• Big Songs Of Hope And Cheer
• Book of Golden stories
• Brown Haired Girl
• Canada
• Cho Buidhe Is A Bha I Riabh
• City of The lights
• Clash Of The Ash
• Da Mhile Bliadhna
• Day of Days
• Dream Fields
• Duisg Mo Run
• Edge of The World
• Eirinn
• Elegy
• Empty Glens
• Every Beating Heart
• Every river
• Faileas Air An Airigh
• Flower of the west
• From The North
• Gabriel's Sword
• Heading to Acadia
• Headlights
• Healer in your Heart
• Hearthammer
• Hearts of Olden Glory
• I'll keep coming home
• In Scandinavia
• In Search of Angels
• Life Is
• May Morning
• News From Heaven
• Onar
• One Thing
• Only The brave
• Òran
• Oran Ailein (Leaving Strathconon)
• Our Earth was once green
• Precious Years
• Pride Of the Summer
• Protect and survive
• Proterra
• Rìbhinn Donn
• Rise And Fall
• Road Trip
• Rocket to the moon
• Running to the Light
• Sguaban Arbhair
• Siol Ghoraidh
• Smalltown
• Something's Got To Give
• Somewhere
• SONA
• Sunndach
• Tear down the walls
• Thairis Air A Ghleann
• That Final Mile
• That Other Landscape
• The Apple Came Down
• The Big Wheel
• The Crowded River
• The Cutter
• The Dancing Floor
• The Dungeon
• The Engine Room
• The Everlasting Gun
• The Ferry
• The Fisherman
• The Geneology Of Goraidh
• The Greatest Flame
• The High Surge
• The Highest Apple
• The Hill at the Market Stance
• The Lambs in Springtime
• The Message
• The Mighty Atlantic / Mara
• The Noise Of Battle
• THE OCEAN ROAD
• The Ocean's Cycle
• The Old Boys
• The Only Rose
• The Place Where The Rivers Run
• The Reiteach
• The Rose
• The Sheaves Of Corn
• The Ship
• The Stamping Ground
• The Story
• The Summer Walkers
• The Times They Are a Changin'
• The Water Is Wide
• The Wedding
• The Wire
• The Work Song
• The Years We Shared
• There's A Need
• Things That Are
• This Beautiful Pain
• This Darkest Winter
• This Day
• This Is Not A Love Song
• This Time of Year
• Tillidh Mi
• Tir A Mhurain
• Tir An Airm
• To Tell You The Truth
• Travellers
• Twenty Years
• Two Thousand Years
• Wake Up My Love
• Wall of China
• Wall of China (One Man)
• What Will I Do and Tunes
• When The Beauty
• White Stirks
• Wonderful
• Worker for the wind
• World Appeal
• Year Of The Flood