Loreena Mccennitt Carrighfergus Lyrics

Carrighfergus Lyrics

I hear some distant drumbeat

A heartbeat pulsing low

It is coming
from within

A heartbeat I don't know

A troubled heart knows no
peace

A dark and poisoned pool

Of liberty now lost

A pawn an
opressor's tool



Oh my heart must be strong

And guide when
eyes grow dim

When ears grow deaf with empty words

When I know
there's life within



A gunfire shatters silence

Where birds
once sweetly sang

A mother cradles a child now dead

Now death where
life began



From the troubled heart of South Africa

Nicaragua's festering sore

The turmoil on the streets of China

Death crying out for more



A change is slow in coming

My
eyes can scarcely see

The rays of hope come streaming

Through the
smoke of apathy



Oh my heart must be strong

And guide when
eyes grow dim

When ears grow deaf with empty words

When I know
there's life within



May the spirit never die

Though a
troubled heart feels pain

When this long winter is over

It will
blossom once again.