Loreena McKennitt - Skellig Lyrics
Oh light the candle, John, the daylight has almost goneThe birds have sung their last, the bells call all to massSit here by my side for the night is very longThere's something I must tell before I pass alongI joined the brotherhood, my books were all to meI scribed the words of God and much of historyMany a year was I perched out upon the seaThe waves would wash my tears, the wind, my memoryI'd hear the ocean breathe, exhale upon the shoreI knew the tempest's blood, its wrath I would endureAnd so the years went by within my rocky cellWith only a mouse or bird, my friend, I loved them wellAnd so it came to pass I'd come here to RomaniAnd many a year it took 'til I arrived here with theeOn dusty roads I walked and over mountains highThrough rivers running deep beneath the endless skyBeneath these jasmine flowers, amidst these cypress treesI give you now my books and all their mysteriesNow take the hourglass and turn it on its headFor when the sands are still, 'tis then you'll find me deadOh light the candle, John, the daylight is almost goneThe birds have sung their last, the bells call all to mass