Skellig - Live

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
Its books were all to me
I scribed the words of God
And much of history

It's not my place to leave this live solitude
And she who died that came, a bond of brotherhood

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 Romany
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

Now beneath these jasmine flowers
Amidst these cypress trees
I give you now my books
And all their mysteries

A heart can join my word
Let not these keys be worst
The secret lies within
The ride of some of the lost

O light the candle, John
The daylight is almost gone
The birds have sung their last

The bells call all to mass