BAICCIFS - The Earth Remembers

Описание: By Artificial Intelligence Created Contemporary Irish Folk Song
Music: Tunee
Lyrics:Chat & Me

The clay knows my name where I kneel at dawn,
Cold as the bones below,
I’ve worn this road till the soles were gone
And still there’s nowhere to go.
The crows keep watch from the broken wall,
They’ve learned what I came to say,
For the earth hears all and remembers well
What the living throw away

Ochón, ochón, the light is thin,
It breaks but it does not stay,
I’ve carried love like a wound in my breast
And the tears go their own way

I was young when the bells first took their due,
When the sea took its share of men,
I learned to close up my mouth and hands
And not ask twice again.
The hearth went dark though the fire was fed,
No warmth where hope once lay,
For the heart can starve in a crowded room
As sure as alone on the quay

Ochón, ochón, the night is long,
It teaches the soul to wait,
I’ve sung the names of the buried ones
Till my tongue learned the taste of fate

My mother said, “Kneel when the wind turns hard,
The world won’t soften for prayer,”
I knelt so long that my knees turned stone
And the wind still combed my hair.
There’s a stitch in my side from a love long dead,
It pulls when the day grows grey,
Grief is a debt that outlives the heart
And will not be turned away

Ochón, ochón, the well runs deep,
But the bucket comes up dry,
I’ve given my youth to the asking ground
And my voice to the empty sky

If I rise no more when the morning comes,
Lay me where the gorse grows low,
No marked stone, no holy word,
Just the rain to let me go.
Tell no tale of a gentle end,
There was none to be found this way,
Only a woman who stood too long
As the tears went their own way

Ochón, ochón, the song is done,
Let the dark have what it may,
I’ve nothing left but the breath I spend
And the tears going their own way