Testo The Rock

There's a low rock wall By the cliffs of Mohar Runs from down on the ground Right up through the sea air As a child I would climb To the top of those stairs And wish on the fog I was anywhere else The farms and the valleys Are ringed with the stones Of the men who built walls Sos to be more alone All thats left of them now Are their fears and their bones But the rocks they put up Were all I've ever known The rock fought my spirit The rock fed my anger The rock broke my heart Like the waves of the sea I tried hard to fight But it still grew inside me This island my Ireland The rock is in me Hard was the ground In which this child grew Unforgiving and cold Was the home that I knew But knowing the soil Not harboured for you Makes pulling up roots That much easier to do Set sail Young pilgrims Set sail To a new land Set sail Our future Is out there to find The rock fought my spirit The rock fed my anger The rock broke my heart Like the waves of the sea I tried hard to fight But it still grew inside me This island my Ireland The rock is in me I tried hard to fight But it still grew inside me This island my Ireland The rock is in me Now it's been years Since I've been in that place And the winds of my life Have all weathered my face But if only with distance And the coming of grace That I see in you beauty I could never replace The rock forged my spirit The rock was my anchor The rock held me fast Through the storms of my youth Now you'll never die Cause you live on inside me On Illinsha Moharen fain