1. Prologue
2. The mummer's dance
3. Skellig
4. Marco polo
5. The Highwayman
6.La Serenissima
7. Night ride across the Caucasus
8. Dante's prayer
Instrumental - Music Loreena McKennitt
Music and Lyrics Loreena McKennitt
When in the springtime of the
year
When the trees are crowned with
leaves
When the ash and oak, and the
birch and yew
Are dressed in ribbons fair
When owls call the breathless
moon
In the blue veil of the night
The shadows of the trees appear
Amidst the lantern light
We?ve been rambling all the night
And some time of this day
Now returning back again
We bring a garland gay
Who will go down to those shady
groves
And summon the shadows there
And tie a ribbon on those sheltering
arms
In the springtime of the year
The songs of birds seem to fill
the wood
That when the fiddler plays
All their voices can be heard
Long past their woodland days
And so they linked their hands
and danced
Round in circles and in rows
And so the journey of the night
descends
When all the shades are gone
"A garland gay we bring you here
And at your door we stand
It is a sprout well budded out
The work of Our Lord?s hand"
Skellig
- 6:07
Music and
Lyrics Loreena McKennitt
O light the candle, John
The daylight has almost gone
The birds have sung their last
The bells call all to mass
Sit here by my side
For the night is very long
There's something I must tell
Before I pass along
I joined the brotherhood
My books were all to me
I scribed the words of God
And much of history
Many a year was I
Perched out upon the sea
The waves would wash my tears,
The wind, my memory
I'd hear the ocean breathe
Exhale upon the shore
I knew the tempest's blood
Its wrath I would endure
And so the years went by
Within my rocky cell
With only a mouse or bird
My friend; I loved them well
And so it came to pass
I'd come here to Romani
And many a year it took
Till I arrived here with thee
On dusty roads I walked
And over mountains high
Through rivers running deep
Beneath the endless sky
Beneath these jasmine flowers
Amidst these cypress trees
I give you now my books
And all their mysteries
Now take the hourglass
And turn it on its head
For when the sands are still
'Tis then you'll find me dead
O light the candle, John
The daylight is almost gone
The birds have sung their last
The bells call all to mass
Instrumental - Music Loreena McKennitt
Music Loreena McKennitt; Lyrics Alfred Noyes, adapted by Loreena McKennitt
Instrumental - Music Loreena McKennitt
Night Ride Across The Caucasus - 8:30
Music and
Lyrics Loreena McKennitt
Ride on Through the night Ride
on
Ride on Through the night Ride
on
There are visions, there are
memories
There are echoes of thundering
hooves
There are fires, there is laughter
There's the sound of a thousand
doves
In the velvet of the darkness
By the silhouette of silent
trees
They are witnessing life's mysteries
Cascading stars on the slumbering
hills
They are dancing as far as the
sea
Riding o'er the land, you can
feel its gentle hand
Leading on to its destiny
Take me with you on this journey
Where the boundaries of time
are now tossed
In cathedrals of the forest
In the words of the tongues
now lost
Find the answers, ask the questions
Find the roots of an ancient
tree
Take me dancing, take me singing
I'll ride on till the moon meets
the sea
Music and
Lyrics Loreena McKennitt
When the dark wood fell before
me
And all the paths were overgrown
When the priests of pride say
there is no other way
I tilled the sorrows of stone
I did not believe because I could
not see
Though you came to me in the
night
When the dawn seemed forever
lost
You showed me your love in the
light of the stars
Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me
Then the mountain rose before
me
By the deep well of desire
From the fountain of forgiveness
Beyond the ice and fire
Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me
Though we share this humble path,
alone
How fragile is the heart
Oh give these clay feet wings
to fly
To touch the face of the stars
Breathe life into this feeble
heart
Lift this mortal veil of fear
Take these crumbled hopes, etched
with tears
We'll rise above these earthly
cares
Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me
Please remember me