Enya - So I Could Find My Way (2016 performance, Songs of Praise)

Описание: A performance of the Enya song So I Could Find My Way, from her 2015 album Dark Sky Island. ♡🕯🌌🗺🌠

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This performance was filmed in the chapel of All Hallows College, Dublin, for the BBC programme Songs of Praise, episode aired 20th March 2016. (I watch this programme sometimes on Sundays, I'll look out for this episode, or a future Enya appearance! 😊⛪️🎶)

Full video clip and interview can be viewed here:
https://vimeo.com/242242460

This is slightly shorter than the released version, as the 2nd verse is skipped in the broadcast.
Several fragments appear on Enya at the BBC (broadcast 15th March 2025) https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode... as well as this.

I tried to add better quality audio where possible, re-adjusting the footage for a while 😅⚙️ to hopefully be in-sync with the audio. A bit of colour grading too 🎨🪄

This song, as Enya mentions, revolves around celebrating what a parent or parental figure does for a child. 💛 Their loving actions are being remembered even though the child has moved on, or the parents have passed away. 💭🕊

More specifically, the song serves as a tribute to Nicky Ryan's late mother, Mona. Enya also knew her well, moving in with the Ryan family in Artane, Dublin, in the early 1980s. Though Eithne still has blood relations who love her, and she loves back, it was the Ryans who consistently held Eithne in high regard, providing support throughout her career in music. 😌🎶

I also noticed two Enya song references in the lyrics. "Yet only time keeps us apart" (unsure if a pun was intended 😅) and more meaningfully "so let me give this dream to you, upon another shore". 🌊 It could be referring to On Your Shore, and Enya's maternal grandparents, who also supported Eithne's education in music, as well as that of many young musicians of in Gweedore in the past. 🎶

Being able to inspire newer generations, guide them, help them flourish, or simply help them through life, is a wonderful thing, something many younger people are grateful for. ♡
Enya has certainly done that with her music 🥰 long may it continue. 🎼🌠

Thank you for watching and listening 🤗🎶