Caribbean Blue Lyrics
Eurus
Āfer Ventus
[Verse 1]
So the world goes round and round
With all you ever knew
They say the sky high above
Is Caribbean blue
[Interlude]
[Verse 2]
If every man says all he can
If every man is true
Do I believe the sky above
Is Caribbean blue
[Bridge]
Boreās
Zephryus
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
If all you told was turned to gold
If all you dreamed was new
Imagine sky high above
In Caribbean blue
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According to Enya.sk, Enya declared in a 1992 interview for Jazziz Magazine:
Well, again, it was Roma who came up with the title to ‘Caribbean Blue’. We had arranged the melody and she was reminded of the Caribbean, but then she felt it’s a trip of a difference. It’s like ‘Orinoco’ where you are taken through a dreamlike fantasy trip. She felt the same way about the music, and, therefore, she based the lyrics on this trip through this beautiful fantasy world.
On Enya’s YouTube channel, in the comments of the video for the Shepherd Moons 30th birthday, she wrote:
As with a lot of the songs I find that there are several threads that come together to create the lyrics. Sometimes the ideas behind them can be completely opposed to one another. This was the case with Caribbean Blue. The first thread was the idea that it is much easier to imagine a beautiful place on a rainy day than to imagine a dreary one, for it is often forgotten that one may create something good merely be thinking it so. A day-dream is as rich a gift as any. Like Afer Ventus, the wind from Africa, or Eurus, the east wind, Boreas from the north or the gentle Zephyrus, the imagination is free and can choose and create its own journey. As with all dreams we reach for the ideal, and Caribbean Blue represents such an ideal.
The second thread came from my favourite Aesop fable. It tells the story of a journey that an old man made, with his young son and their donkey. Everyone they met on that journey had an opinion on how the man, his son and the donkey should travel and, no matter what they did, someone complained about it. If the man rode the donkey they were criticized, if the boy rode the donkey they were criticized, if both rode the donkey they were criticized. If neither rode the donkey – yes – you’ve guessed it – they were criticized! They could not please everyone. In fact, they could not please anyone. You have your own journey to make, so make it the best you can. Live your life and learn by your mistakes. Trust your own judgement. Find out what’s important to you. Life is short. In the end you need to find out for yourself how blue the sky is!
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