Never-Ending Road (Amhrán Duit)

Sometimes it just takes one small moment to change your day around… I was in a really shitty mood before, but I threw on the new Loreena McKinnett album and scanned through it before coming upon the last song: “Never-Ending Road (Amhrán Duit)”

“Amhrán Duit” roughly translates to “a song for you” in Irish Gaelic. Over a gorgeous bed of soft strings, light guitar and finely plucked harps her voice dances in and out of a duet with a solitary set of uilleann pipes; singing to a dead friend, a lover or just the faceless listener. It’s a truely haunting piece of music with simple and stark lyrics.

The road now leads onward, as far as can be/
Winding lanes, and hedgerows in threes/
By purple mountains, and ’round every bend/
All roads lead to you, there is no journey’s end/

Here is my heart, I give it to you/
Take me with you across this land/
These are my dreams, so simple, so few/
Dreams we hold in the palm of our hands/

Deep in the winter, amidst falling snow/
High in the air, where the bells they all toll/
And now all around me, I feel you still here/
Such is the journey, no mystery to fear/

Here is my heart, I give it to you/
Take me with you across this land/
These are my dreams, so simple, so few/
Dreams we hold in the palm of our hands/

It now leads onwards, I know not where/
I feel in my heart, that you will be there/
Whenever a storm comes, whatever our fears/
The journey goes on, as your love ever nears/

Just beautiful… check it out.