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Anáil na hOíche
04:36
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Anáil na hOíche
Shiúileamar amach
Gealach lán in ard na spéire
Bhí m’anáil teann i lár mo chléibhe
Aréir a chaith mé i ngéibheann
Lán gealaí
Oíche go maidin
Is do dhreach amach romham mar phaidir
Shiúileamar amach
Bhí na deora á sníomh sna néalta
Fiabhras fola i gcroíthe na réalta
Mo chreach! níor fhéad mé éalú
Lán gealaí
Oíche go maidin
Níor chuala mo stór ceol m’anama
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Night Breathing
Out we walked
Full moon soaring in the sky
My breath tight in my chest
I spent last night in captivity
Full moon
Night til morning
You face me like a prayer
Out we walked
Tears being woven in the clouds
Blood fever in the heart of the stars
Alas! I couldn’t escape
Full moon
Night til morning
My love didn’t hear my soul’s song
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2. |
Dublin City Fever Dream
03:20
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Dublin City Fever Dream
Trudging up Grafton Street
I’ve got the lead bound to my feet
Dublin city’s caving in
Caving in on me
I hear a whistle float down on the wind
Cuts through the fog in my mind
It’s a cold soul in a sleeping bag
Playing Down By The Glenside
They killed God! D’you have a lighter?
I’m beginning to fear that the screams of the night might
Carry on into the morning
Give us a tune! It’s an all nighter!
Anxiety’s freezing my chest, won’t be leaving my lungs
Til the day is dawning
Glory Oh, Glory Oh x4
They say you can’t love somebody else
Until you properly love yourself
I hope it’s not true cos I think I love her
I think I really love her I do
And the tunes tear through the sky
Over the suits that are passing us by
He plays Dark is the colour of my true love’s hair
And I’m feeling high as a kite
They killed God! D’you have a lighter?
I’m beginning to fear that the screams of the night might
Carry on into the morning
Give us a tune! It’s an all nighter!
Anxiety’s freezing my chest won’t be leaving my lungs
Til the day is dawning
Glory Oh, Glory Oh x4
Don’t let the bastards get you down, he says,
As much to me as to himself
He says he once told Kavanagh up by the canal
It was no wonder he was left on the shelf
One more tune before we say our goodbyes
He says he’s soon heading into the Joy
Cos he got caught squatting in an old hotel
When he didn’t have a bed for the night
They killed God! D’you have a lighter?
I’m beginning to fear that the screams of the night might
Carry on into the morning
Give us a tune! It’s an all nighter!
Anxiety’s freezing my chest won’t be leaving my lungs
Til the day is dawning
Glory Oh, Glory Oh x4
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3. |
Ringing That Bell
04:21
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Ringing That Bell
Still they keep on ringing that bell
Through the blacked out windows of my bedsit hell
From the steeple top they’re taunting me
With all their smug impunity
It rings out without guilt or shame
And no regard for my pounding brain
Truths were told and numbers fell
Still they keep on ringing that bell
Through the blacked out windows of my bedsit hell
Still they keep on ringing that bell
How I wish Justine was here
I would whisper I’m sorry in her ear
When she left me years ago she said
I can’t share you with the ghosts in your head
Oh sweet Justine my Brixton queen
She never knew what they did to me
Some stories hurt too much to tell
And there are fires that only drink can quell
Through the blacked out windows of my bedsit hell
Still they keep on ringing that bell
Still they keep on ringing that bell
As I’m counting up the coins for a bottle of Glens
In last night’s clothes I’ll make a start
And I’ll drink a curse to the sacred heart
And all sanctimonious cunts out there
From Letterfrack to St Peter’s Square
No more holy than Cromwell
Still they keep on ringing that bell
Through the blacked out windows of my bedsit hell
Still they keep on ringing that bell
Oh sweet Justine my Brixton queen
She never knew what they did to me
Some stories hurt too much too tell
And there are fires that only drink can quell
Through the blacked out windows of my bedsit hell
Still they keep on ringing that bell
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4. |
The Monaghan Jig
03:10
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5. |
Embrace The New Day
05:43
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Embrace The New Day
The raw pink sun is rising
The night has slipped away
The blood red sun is rising
Embrace the new day
Embrace the new day
The harsh yellow sun is in the sky
In my eyes, it stops my quiet cry
The day’s not here to die
Where did you go?
Down by the river oh
Watching it flow
Wondering how far to go
Last night I lay in my own grave
Its walls rose up around me
I waited lifeless for the clay
To drag me down beneath
To drag me down beneath
I watched the constellations scorch the night
Like the scars that etched my mind
When the world ends breathe a sigh
Where did you go?
Down by the river oh
Watching it flow
Wondering how far I’d float
The soft touch of a hand upon your face
The whisper of a song
I know it’s hard to greet the day
When the nights go on so long
When the nights go on so long
And when shattered candles line your path
Like old corpses of hopes gone by
Still the day’s not here to die
Love come into my arms
I cannot save you from harm
The darkest nights are far from gone
Hold on, hold on, hold on
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6. |
Róisín Dubh
03:58
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Nach fada an réim a lig mé léi ó inné go inniu
Ag siúil sléibhte mo chadhan aodhnraic, ní raibh aon neach lion
Loch Éirne chaith mé de léim é, cé go m’ard a bhí an sruth
Ó tá m’anam glégeal ligthe i léig agam le mo Róisín Dubh
‘S a Róisín, ná bíodh brón ort ná cás anois
Tá do phárdún againn ón bPápa, ón Róimh i leith
Tá do dheartháirín sa nGearmáin, tá a thriail thar muir
Ó ‘s ná spáráil fíon Spáinneach ar mo Róisín Dubh
‘S dá mbeadh seisreach agam nach deas a threabhfainn in aghaidh an chnoic
Dhéanfainn seanamóir ag an altóir, mar a h-ordaíodh dhom
Thabharfainn póg nó dhó do mo chailín a lig a hóighe liom
Óra dhéanfainn cleas deas ar chúl an easa le mo Róisín Dubh
Beidh an Éirne ‘na tonnta tréana ‘s beidh an spéir ina fuil
Beidh na bráithre bána thar sáile le cabhrú linn
Beidh gach gleann sliabh ar fud Éirinn is a móinte ar crith
Lá éigin sula n-éagfaidh mo Róisín Dubh
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7. |
Cat agus Gealach
04:17
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Tá Cat i mBaile Uí Rúain
Tá cat beag i mBaile Uí Rúain ‘s níl stop uirthi ag cantaireacht
Ag feadaíl is ag crónán ó mhaidin go tráthnóna
‘S dá gloisfeá anois í ag góilín gan trácht ar bith ar phortaireacht
Nach gcoinneofá ar do ghóil as seo go dtí Dé Domhnaigh
Nuair a thagann tús an Earraigh amach a théann sí ag spaisteoireacht
Ag damhsa ins ann ngarraí ‘s a luí faoi gha na gréine
Bíonn caisearbhán ‘na malaí ‘gus nóinín ina lapa beag
‘S drioball thuas in airde ag síneadh i dtreo na spéire
Is amach ansin sa bhFómhar a chloisfeá a guth sa teach arís
Ag casadh amach na n-amhrán le miabhannaí chomh ceolmhar
‘S nuair a airíonn sí an fuacht mór isteach de léim sa leaba léi
Is éadann Mhuireann fúithi mar philliúr is í ag crónán
There’s a cat in Ballyroan
There’s a cat in Ballyroan that never stops singing
Whistling and purring from morning until evening
And if you heard her songs, not to mention her lilting
Wouldn’t you leave her on your lap from now until Sunday
And when the Spring begins she goes out exploring
Dancing in the garden and lying beneath the sun
With a dandelion in her eyebrows and a daisy in her little paw
And her tail in the air stretching towards the sky
And when the Autumn arrives you’ll hear her voice in the house again
Singing out the songs with such musical miaows
And when she feels the bitter cold in she jumps to bed
With Muireann’s face beneath like a pillow as she purrs
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8. |
Only The Earth
04:10
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Only The Earth
Time is a place I wish I could leave
Tomorrow’s cliff looming up at me
Today treading water, lost at sea
Yesterday’s ghosts snapping at my heels
These moneyed men would rule the ashes
They would take our home and melt it down
Pick the gold from the wreck of nature’s palaces
Ah but we have a love they cannot drown
A cry in the hard rain falling
A sick river
A wheezing forest
A choking lake and
A staggering mountain
The bleeding leaves
With their open veins
The screaming trees and
The sobbing flowers
The seething sea
The crumbling reef
The cliffs shed their tears
Into the poisoned ocean
And all gather round
To hear the whales sing
It’s the last whale song
I want to be held
I will love you in the fragments
I’ll tie our love to the last island
Before they privatise the sky
Before they rob us of the dancing wind
Before they sell us back the air we breathe
Ah we’ll find our voice and they’ll hear us sing
Ah we’ll find our voice and they’ll hear us roar
We only want the earth
We only want the love
We only want the earth
We only want the love
We only want the earth
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9. |
The Deepest Breath
04:18
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The Deepest Breath
Cold the hand that once held yours
Furrowed face now forever empty
She was old before she’d lived her youth
Hollowed out in a land of plenty
Did you dream last night, child?
Did your dream stay with you?
Oh, the city sucks the wild from your mind
So hold your dream before it hits you
And wear your dreams, they’re all that fit you
We dig these graves every day
Eternal homes denied in lifetime
And the rich men wave our lives away
Can’t see a soul without a price tag
Did you dream last night, child?
Did your dream stay with you?
Oh, this town can burn the bright of your mind
So hold your dream before it hits you
And wear your dreams, they’re all that fit you
Oh sing, friend, if you’ve a song to sing
For your songs are a glimpse of a flickering freedom
And we’re not yet spent and we’ve a world to win
Ah, there’ll be no king but it’ll be our kingdom
Did you dream last night, child?
Did your dream stay with you?
Oh, this land can leech the light from your life
So hold your dream before it hits you
And wear your dreams, they’re all that fit you
And will you sing on now, love?
You’ve got songs a plenty
Oh, they’ll try to tear the truth from your mouth
So sing on strong, make sure they’ve felt it
Oh sing on now, for your soul’s not empty
Sing on, sing on,
In your song flies the highest hope of all
Dream on, dream on,
Our dreams are the deepest breath we draw
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10. |
Bánshoilse
06:11
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Bánshoilse
Shiúileamar amach
Drúcht na maidne faoinár sálaí
Bhrúcht na scamaill anuas fíbín báistí
Is d’fháisc mé chugam do láimhín
Bánshoilse
Oíche go maidin
Níor chuala mo stór ceol m’anam
Shiúileamar amach
Aill na mbláth faoinár sála
Anáil ghrá a líon mo scámhóg’
Nuaire a bháigh tú mo chroí le d’amhrán
Bánshoilse
Oíche go maidin
Is do dhreach amach romham mar phaidir
Shiúileamar amach
Carraigeacha is creaga faoinár gcos’
Tharraing tú isteach mo chroí i do bhos
Nó gur chneasaigh tú mo phian is mo dhólás
Bánshoilse
Oíche go maidin
Agus scaoileadh saor ceol m’anam
Out we walked
Morning dew beneath our feet
The clouds belched down a rage of rain
And I squeezed your hand to me
First light
Night til morning
My love didn’t hear my soul’s song
Out we walked
Flowery cliff beneath our feet
A breath of love filled up my lungs
When you drowned my heart with your song
First light
Night til morning
You face me like a prayer
Out we walked
Craggy rocks beneath our feet
You drew my heart into your palm
And healed my pain and sorrow
First light
Night til morning
Soul song set free
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Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin Dublin, Ireland
Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin is a Dublin-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with his musical roots in sean-nós
singing.
He has recorded and performed with various bands including Skipper's Alley, Aon Teanga:Un Chengey and Jiggy. He collaborates with Clare fiddler and viola player Ultan O'Brien.
His debut solo album The Deepest Breath was released in November 2022.
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