Road to Connemara (Carry Me Home) - West Coast AI (Irish Folk Rock)

Описание: “Road to Connemara (Carry Me Home)” is an Irish folk rock song about a traveler pulled back to the west of Ireland by memory, love, and the sea. Connemara—on Ireland’s Atlantic edge in County Galway—is a rugged landscape of stone walls, peat bogs, and the Twelve Bens mountains, steeped in Gaelic tradition. The song moves from road-worn reflection to an open-armed homecoming, turning the refrain “carry me home” into a joyful return.

Lyrics:

Verse:
The road runs ragged through the stone-walled green
Smoke on the wind and the salt between
A ticket folded like a prayer in my coat
Northwest dreams on a southbound boat
I left my name where the cranes all cry
City of glass, never learned the sky;
Now every mile is a rosary bead
Clicking the rhythm my heart still needs

Pre-Chorus:
And the Twelve Bens rise in the back of my mind
Like old friends waving through weather and time—
If the wheels hold steady and the night keeps warm
I’ll be there by the breaking storm

Chorus:
Carry me home—over bog and bay
Where the blackthorn bends and the gulls all pray
Carry me home—let the headlands roar
Connemara wind through an open door
Carry me home—let the hearth-fire glow
I have wandered long; now I think I know:
Every road I roam writes the same refrain—
Carry me home again

Verse:
I kept a pebble from the Sky Road’s edge
Pocketed tides like an iron-bound pledge;
Letters I sent you were driftwood thin
Barely a spark in a city of tin
I chased the thunder of a factory light
Silver by day and a neon night
But the voice of the rain on an old slate roof
Sang me a promise I couldn’t prove

Pre-Chorus:
And the Maamturks call from a veiled, green hush
A thousand streams in a single rush—
If the bridge holds true and the dawn feels kind
I’ll lay these restless roads behind

Chorus:
Carry me home—through the heath and foam
Past the prayer-flag clouds and the starling’s poem
Carry me home—where the fireside knows
Every lost man’s name and the song he chose
Carry me home—let the embers rise
Draw the sea-salt maps in your bright, brown eyes
Every road I roam writes the same refrain—
Carry me home again

Bridge:
I have bartered time for gold
I have learned the city’s tongue
But in dreams the cattle low
And a reel begins, undone
There’s a door that never closed
There’s a chair that saved my place—
If I’m nothing but a road
Let it end within your grace

Verse:
A quay at Clifden, lanterns pale
The tide like linen on the rail;
I hear your laughter through the rain—
A bell that names me home again
The years fall off like winter briars
Your hands are summer, smoke and fires;
If I leave tomorrow’s storms to sea
Tonight the whole wide world is thee

Pre-Lift:
Stone and sea and one true name—
Every mile was burning flame…

Chorus:
Carry me home—past the Twelve Bens’ peaks
Where the cloud-bright road is a ribbon that speaks
Carry me home—through the Inagh vale
By Roundstone boats with their rust-red sail
Carry me home—let the night winds mend
Lay my wandering miles where the green roads end
Every road I roam writes the same refrain—
Carry me home again

Final Chorus:
Carry me home—over bog and bay
Let the thunder roll and the shadows sway
Carry me home—through the storm-lit foam
Connemara roads, you were always home
Carry me home—let the hearth-fire glow
Set a chair by the light where the soft winds blow
Every road I roam was a turning lane—
Carry me home again

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