The Hill Above Kilbride

Описание: The Hill Above Kilbride

[Verse 1]
There’s a house on the hill above Kilbride
Roof half fallen
Gate half wide
Nettles on the path where you once came
Calling out my borrowed name

[Verse 2]
In the glass
A print of your small hand
Smoke-stained walls
A wedding band
Still asleep inside a drawer
I don’t wear your ring no more

[Chorus]
But I light a flame in the falling dark
Keep your cup on the sill
Keep your chair by the hearth
All the doors stand open wide
If you walk this way from the far tide
Oh
My love
My wandering tide
Come home to the hill above Kilbride

[Verse 3]
Old men talk in the Sunday rain
Say you ran from grief
Not shame
Say the sea can steal a face
Leave the clothes
Erase the trace

[Verse 4]
But the curlew cries when the night turns thin
Steps on gravel
Breath on skin
Every creak and shadowed stair
Carries you
Half here
Half there

[Chorus]
So I light a flame in the falling dark
Keep your cup on the sill
Keep your chair by the hearth
All the doors stand open wide
If you walk this way from the far tide
Oh
My love
My wandering tide
Come home to the hill above Kilbride

[Bridge]
If you’ve taken some other name
Laid your sorrow
Shed your blame
May your roof be strong
Your hunger fed
May my ghost walk out of your head

[Verse 5]
Still some nights when the wind leans in
I feel your pulse beneath my skin
Not in chains
Not in a grave
In the heart you chose
Not the heart you saved

[Chorus]
So I light a flame in the falling dark
Keep your cup on the sill
Keep your chair by the hearth
All the doors stand open wide
If you walk this way from the far tide
Oh
My love
My wandering tide
Sleep soft from the hill above Kilbride