Tir Na Nog

After all we're only human ...

More of a spell than song with so many incantations, souls enraptured, heavenly songs, of being in the garden, wet with rain and golden autumn days. The natural, mythical and spiritual woven together to form a tapestry which transports the listener away from the temporal. The delicate instrumentation at once embellishes the story and heightens the vision.  

Van references freedom from attachment as the means to enlightenment and a release from the cycle of life and death but despite that being a life long pursuit he would rather come back to a suffering existence, if it meant that he and his love could be together. A love he believes they have experienced many times before such is its depth. A love that has the power to rejuvenate old souls. A love worth turning away from the eternal presence to experience once again. 

Only Van. Breathe it in.

We were standing in the kingdom

And we stood by the mansion gate

We stood enraptured by the silence

As the birds sang their heavenly song

In Tir Na Nog

We stopped in the church of Ireland

And prayed to our father 

And climbed up the mountainside 

With fire in our hearts

And we walked all the way

To Tir Na Nog

I said with my eyes I recognised your chin

It was my long lost friend

To help me from another lifetime

We took each others hands 

And cried like a river

When we said hello and we walked

To Tir Na Nog

We made a big connection

On a golden autumn day

We were standing in the garden wet with rain

And our souls were young again

In Tir Na Nog

And outside the storm was raging

Outside Jerusalem

We drove in our chariots of fire

Following the big sun in the west

Going up, going up

To Tir Na Nog

You came into my life 

And you filled me and you filled me, oh so joyous, 

By the clear cool crystal streams

Where the roads were quiet and still

And we walked all the way

To Tir Na Nog

How can we not be attached? After all we're only human

The only way then is to never come back

Except I wouldn't want that would you?

If we weren't together again

In Tir Na Nog

We've been together before in a different incarnation

And we loved each then as well

And we sat down in contemplation

Many many many times you kissed mine eyes

In Tir Na Nog

A stunningly, beautiful live version from 1986

And we loved each other then as well ...