 Genius Lyrics
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Loreena McKennitt – The Highwayman
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“The Highwayman” is a song based on a poem written by Alfred Noyes in the early 1900’s. He was staying in a British country inn at the time, and used local features to inspire him
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Loreena McKennitt – Lost Souls
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The journey's over; another's just begun / Beneath moonlight, but by the warming sun / I seek to hold you in sunshine or rain / Beneath the heavens, I'm coming home again / So far
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Loreena McKennitt – Snow
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White are the far-off fields / And white the fading forests grow; / The wind dies out amongst the tides / Denser still the snow / A gathering weight on roof and tree / Falls down
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Loreena McKennitt – Caravanserai
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This glancing life is like a morning star / A setting sun, or rolling waves at sea / A gentle breeze or lightning in a storm / A dancing dream of all eternity / The sand was
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Loreena McKennitt – The Mystic's Dream
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[Verse 1] / A clouded dream on an earthly night / Hangs upon the crescent moon / A voiceless song in an ageless light / Sings at the coming dawn / Birds in flight are calling there
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Loreena McKennitt – The Lady of Shalott
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On either side of the river lie / Long fields of barley and of rye / That clothe the wold and meet the sky; / And thro' the field the road run by / To many-towered Camelot; / And
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Loreena McKennitt – The Old Ways
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The thundering waves are calling me home to you / The pounding sea is calling me home unto you / On a dark new year's night / On the west coast of Clare / I heard your voice
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Loreena McKennitt – The Bonny Swans
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The second song on Canadian artists fifth album, Bonny Swans takes inspiration from old folklore. The story goes by many names, such as “The Two Sisters”, “The Twa Sisters”, and “
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Loreena McKennitt – Dante's Prayer
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When the dark wood fell before me / And all the paths were overgrown / When the priests of pride say there is no other way / I tilled the sorrows of stone / I did not believe
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Loreena McKennitt – Skellig
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O light the candle, John / The daylight has almost gone / The birds have sung their last / The bells call all to mass / Sit here by my side / For the night is very long / There's
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Loreena McKennitt – The Mummers' Dance
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“The Mummers' Dance” is a single by Canadian Celtic singer Loreena McKennitt from the 1997 album “The Book of Secrets”. The song refers to seasonal Mummers Play performed by groups
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Loreena McKennitt – Cé Hé Mise Le Ulaingt? (The Two Trees)
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Beloved gaze in thine own heart / The holy tree is growing there / From joy the holy branches start / And all the trembling flowers they bear / The changing colours of its fruit
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Loreena McKennitt – Stolen Child
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Where dips the rocky highland / Of Sleuth Wood in the lake / There lies a leafy island / Where flapping herons wake / The drowsy water-rats / There we've hid our faery vats / Full
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Loreena McKennitt – Prospero's Speech
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And now my charms are all o'erthrown / And what strength I have's mine own / Which is most faint; now t'is true / I must here be confined by you / But release me from my bands
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Loreena McKennitt – Standing Stones
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In one of these lonely Orkney Isles / There dwelled a maiden fair / Her cheeks were red, her eyes were blue / She had yellow, curling hair / Which caught the eye and then the heart
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Loreena McKennitt – Full Circle
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Stars were falling deep in the darkness / As prayers rose softly, petals at dawn / And as I listened, your voice seemed so clear / So calmly you were calling your god / Somewhere
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Loreena McKennitt – Samain Night
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When the moon on a cloud cast night / Hung above the tree tops' height / You sang me of some distant past / That made my heart beat strong and fast / Now I know I'm home at last
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Loreena McKennitt – Coventry Carol
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Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child / By by, lully, lullay, thou little tiny child / By by, lully lullay / O sisters too, how may we do / For to preserve this day / This poor
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Loreena McKennitt – All Souls Night
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[Intro] / Ah-ah-ah / Ah-ah-ah-ah / Ah-ah-ah-ah / Ah-ah-ah / Ah-ah-ah-ah / Ah-ah-ah-ah / [Verse 1] / Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides / Figures dance around and around / To drums
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Loreena McKennitt (Ft. Cedric Smith) – Carrighfergus
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I wish I was in Carrighfergus / Only for nights in Ballygrant / I would swim over the deepest ocean / Only for nights in Ballygrant / But the sea is wide, and I can't get over
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Loreena McKennitt – Raglan Road
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On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw him first and knew / That his dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue; / I saw the danger and yet I walked along the enchanted
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Loreena McKennitt – Courtyard Lullaby
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Wherein the deep night sky / The stars lie in its embrace / The courtyard still in its sleep / And peace comes over your face / "Come to me," it sings / "Hear the pulse of the land
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Loreena McKennitt – The Bells of Christmas
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In the silence of the night / When the snow lies soft and still / You can see a magic light / And hear the ring of Christmas bells / Though the night seems long and dark / It is
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Loreena McKennitt – The Seasons
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Come all you lads and lasses, I'd have you give attention / To these few lines I'm about to write here / 'Tis of the four seasons of the year that I shall mention / The beauty of
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Loreena McKennitt – The Wind That Shakes The Barley
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I sat within a valley green / I sat there with my true love / My heart strove to choose between / The old love and the new love / The old for her, the new that made / Me think on
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Loreena McKennitt – Cymbeline
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Fear no more the heat o' the sun / Nor the furious winters' rages; / Thou thy worldly task hast done / Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages / Golden lads and girls all must / As
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Loreena McKennitt – The King
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Health, love and peace be all here in this place / By your leave we shall sing, concerning our King / Our King is well-dressed in silks of the best / In ribbons so rare no king can
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Loreena McKennitt – To The Fairies They Draw Near, Pt. II
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[Verse 1] / Come away with me now to the sky / Up o'er the hills and the sea / Far beyond where memories lie / To a place where I'm free to be me / [Chorus] / Oh gather it now one
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Loreena McKennitt (Ft. Douglas Campbell) – Lullaby
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O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue / To drown the throat of war! - When the senses / Are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness / Who can stand? When the souls of the
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Loreena McKennitt – A Hundred Wishes
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[Chorus] / If I had a hundred wishes / And only one of them could come true / I would wish that, over this distance / I could be right there, now, with you / [Verse 1] / Could we
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Loreena McKennitt – Prologue
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[Instrumental]
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Loreena McKennitt – Ages Past, Ages Hence
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[Verse 1] / Ancient castles and climbing cliffs / Summoned by the sea / Windswept shores and crashing waves / Rages furiously / Twisting trees of truth / Stand huddled watchingly
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Loreena McKennitt – Bonny Portmore
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O bonny Portmore, I am sorry to see / Such a woeful destruction of your ornament tree / For it stood on your shore for many's the long day / 'Til the long boats from Antrim came to
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Loreena McKennitt – Night Ride Across The Caucasus
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Ride on through the night, ride on / Ride on through the night, ride on / There are visions, there are memories / There are echoes of thundering hooves / There are fires, there is
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Loreena McKennitt – Marrakesh Night Market
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[Verse 1] / They're gathered in circles / The lamps light their faces / The crescent moon rocks in the sky / The poets of drumming / Keep heartbeats suspended / The smoke swirls up
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Loreena McKennitt – As I Roved Out
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And who are you, me pretty fair maid, and who are you, me honey? / And who are you, me pretty fair maid, and who are you, me honey? / She answered me quite modestly, "I am me
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Loreena McKennitt – The Star Of The County Down
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Near Banbridge town in the County Down / One morning last July / From a boreen green came a sweet colleen / And she smiled as she passed me by / She looked so sweet from her two
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Loreena McKennitt – Beneath A Phrygian Sky
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The moonlight it was dancing / On the waves, out on the sea / The stars of heaven hovered / In a shimmering galaxy / A voice from down the ages / So haunting in its song / These
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Loreena McKennitt – Dickens' Dublin (The Palace)
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Joyful mystery the birth of our lord, this night Our Lady and Saint Joseph was going up to get registered, and they were going down the road and they met this man, and he said "
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Loreena McKennitt – Marco Polo
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[Instrumental]
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Loreena McKennitt – Spanish Guitars and Night Plazas
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[Verse 1] / Falls, the light, by your side / And flows to a sea of lost dreams / The ocean opens its arms to lost souls / Toils the night, so it seems / And who can recall the lost
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Loreena McKennitt – Breaking The Silence
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I hear some distant drumbeat / A heartbeat pulsing low / Is it coming from within / A heartbeat I don't know / A troubled soul knows no peace / A dark and poisoned pool / Of
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Loreena McKennitt – She Moved Through the Fair
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[Verse 1] / My love said to me / My mother won't mind / And me father won't slight you / For your lack of kind / Then she stepped away from me / And this she did say / "It will not
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Loreena McKennitt – Gloucestershire Wassail
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Wassail! Wassail all over the town! / Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown; / Our bowl it is made of the white maple tree; / With the wassailing-bowl, we´ll drink to thee
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