Anam

Clannad Anam Lyrics
1.In Fortune's Hand

Tell me what you please
This place is a squeeze
Your guess is as good as mine
Sell me other dreams, oh! the summer's here
You know we're going down the line
You know we're going down the line

Taking all the pieces of the situation
Hoping we can work it out
With fate on your side, luck and some pride
You are on the right line
It'll be a sure sign

CHORUS
In fortune's hand
Where do we stand?
In fortune's hand

There isn't a noble or a humble person
Who isn't up or down a while
Throw caution to the wind
Leave your cares behind
You know we're going down the line
You know we're going down the line

Tell me what you please
This place is a squeeze
Your guess is as good as mine
Sell me other dreams, oh! the summer's here
You know we're going down the line
You know we're going down the line

CHORUS


2.Why Worry

Why must I worry
Try not to hurry like other people
Why must I worry
'Cos you know yourself
That is not the way

Who am I to tell you lies
And then say I didn't mean it at all
You see me, you hear me
But you don't know what I'm saying
You feel it, you take it
In your stride
Why must I worry
Try not to hurry like other people

Why must I worry
'Cos you know yourself
That is not the way
When you call me
And talk about the yesterdays
It cheers me, it steers me
To follow better reason
To feel it, to take it in our stride

Why must I worry
Try not to hurry like other people
Why must I worry
'Cos you know yourself
That is not the way

Why worry, why worry
Try not to hurry, try not to hurry
Why must I worry
'Cos you know yourself
That is not my way


3.Love and Affection

You play games in the street
Who to trust and who to meet
Sweet justice hard to find
Say the same with deceit
Take no blame in defeat
Sweet justice hard to find

All I wanted was love and affection
All I wanted was love and affection

Lonely child roams around
As someone else goes underground
All trying to make ends meet
Trouble staring, is life so cheap?

All they wanted was love and affection
All they wanted was love and affection

Broken dreams in the street
True sensations, the stories leak
Sweet justice hard to find
Can't simply speak my mind

All I wanted was love and affection
All they wanted was love and affection
All I wanted was love and affection
And all they wanted was love and affection


4.Uirchill An Chreagain

Ag uirchill a' chreagain sea chodail mise
'Reir faoi bhron
Is le heiri na maid'ne thainig sinnir fa mo
Dhein le poig
Bhi grisoghrus garth' aici 'gus loinhir ina
Ciabh mar or
'S ba e iochshlainte 'n domhain a bheith
'G amharc ar a' rioghan oig

A fhiafhir charthanaigh, na caitear thusa 'nealta
Ach eirigh go tapaidh agus aistrigh liom siar sa rod
Go tir dheas na meala nach bhfuair galla inti reim go foill
'S gheobhair aoibhneas ar hallaf 'mo
Mhealladhsa le siamsa ceoil

A rioghan is deise 'n tu helen fa'r
Treagh sloigh
No do na naoi mna deasa, pharnassus thu
Bhi deanta gclo?
Ce'n tir ins a' chruinne 'n ar hoileadh
Tu, a realt gan cheo
Le'r mian leat mo shamhrhailsa bheith
'Cogarnaigh leat siar sa rod?


5.The Poison Glen

Way up there in the poison glen
The sun's going down on the misty mountain
And I'm watching
And wondering
Feeling something from long ago

Haunted echo that surrounds the glen
The heather creeping through
The burned out ruins
And I'm watching
And wondering
Feeling spirits of long ago

Who in the valley shed the poison tear?
No one knows
An old legend of a mythical hero
And I'm watching
And wondering
Feeling something from long ago

May this vale be my silver lining
Pleasing nature with a heart's desire
And I'm watching
And wondering
Feeling everything from long ago


6.Anam

When will I see
An end to destruction and woe
And how will I see
No division in my life
There comes a time to make amends
Never too late to try again
To save our soul when will I see an end
To the famine and war
And when will I say
There's no solution no more
There comes a time to make amends
Never too late to try again
To save our soul
All that I see
Is soul destroying, greed
When will I say
There's a solution to meet
There comes a time to make amends
Never too late to try again
To save our soul


7.You're the One

When the cold wind blows
And the rain keeps tumbling down
And there's no one there
When the morning light shines on

CHORUS
You're the one to lend a hand
You're the one who understands
You're the one to comfort me
The keeper of my heart

The moments we share
Will never ever fade away
All the treasure and gold
Wouldn't make me change anyway

CHORUS

This heart of mine
Might change as the seasons run by
Like a small stream
That turns and runs to the sea


8.Ri Na Cruinne

Ri na cruinne
Ta na daoine ag milleadh
An chine daonna
Nil muid curamach go leor

(A) ri na cruinne
Ta'n duira scriosadh
O bhliain go bliain
Nil muid faichilleach go leor
Muscail ar misneadh
Frid an domhain
Muscail ar misneach
Trid an domhan
Muscail ar misneach
Trid an domhan mhor


9.Poison Glen, The

Way up there in the poison glen
The sun's going down on the misty mountain
And i'm watching
And wondering
Feeling something from long ago

Haunted echo that surrounds the glen
The heather creeping through
The burned out ruins
And i'm watching
And wondering
Feeling spirits of long ago

Who in the valley shed the poison tear?
No one knows
An old legend of a mythical hero
And i'm watching
And wondering
Feeling something from long ago

May this vale be my silver lining
Pleasing nature with a heart's desire
The burned out ruins
And i'm watching
And wondering
Feeling everything from long ago


10.Wilderness

Instrumental


11.Why Worry?


12.Dobhar


13.In A Lifetime

Hard to tell

Or recognise a sign

To see me through

A warning sign

First the thunder

Satisfied, if the past it will not lie

Then the storm

Torn assunder

The future you and i get blown away

In the storm

In a lifetime

And as the rain it falls

Begin again, as the storm breaks through

Heavy in my heart

Believe the light in you

So the light shines in you

Without color, faded and worn

Torn asunder in the storm

Unless the sound has faded from your soul

Unless it disappears

First the thunder

Selfish storm

Then the storm

Hold on the inside

Torn asunder

One life

In the storm

In a lifetime

In a lifetime


14.Theme From Harry's Game

Imtheochaidh soir is siar

A dtainig ariamh

An ghealach is an ghrian

Fol lol the doh fol the day

Fol the day fol the day

Imtheochaidh an ghealach's an ghrian

An daoine og is a chail 'na dhiadh

Fol lol the doh fol the day

Fol the day fol the day

Fol lol the doh fol the day

Fol the day fol the day

Imtheochaidh a dtainig ariamh

An duine og is a chail ne dhiadh

Fol lol the doh fol the day

Fol the day fol the day

Translation
I will go east and go west


The moon and the sun

The moon and the sun will go

And the young man

With his reputation behind him

I will go wherever he came from -

The young man with his reputation behind him