Clannad, Of This Land

Beautiful. Healing.

Lyrics to "Of This Land" by Clannad

How gentle was the breeze
That Surrounded the way
How loud the sea's roar on the four

Winds everyday
Sharing love, wounded gifts from
Ancient long ago

Together they closed in the circles we know

Will we treasure all the secrets with life's changing scenes
Where our hearts were warm with love

So much love
Will the flowers grow again as I open
Out my hand

Precious time
Time for healing
The beauty of this land (2x)

We will treasure all the secrets with life's changing scenes
Where our hearts were warm with love
So much love

Will the flowers grow again as I open
Out my hand

Precious time
Time for healing
The beauty of this land

How soulful those words that confuses the way
How wild the mountains stare as they guard our everyday
Take for granted noble hearts in the golden age that's flown
Between us recall on a strong road we've known

We will treasure all the secrets with life's changing scenes
Where our hearts were warm with love
So much love
Will the flowers grow again as I open
Out my hand

Precious time
Time for healing
The beauty of this land


This is Clannad's "I Will Find You."  The pace is quickened compared to the original and the version used in Michael Mann's film The Last of the Mohicans.  I'm posting it here because I liked the message in this version.  It is a woman who is looking for aspects of herself that she's lost through time.  I guess it assumes a bit of a split personality, where she has lost herself and now she is trying to find herself, all historical periods of herself.  She wasn't looking so much for a man but for love, the love contained in an earlier self.  That's my reading of it, and I liked it.  Here is the video:



Clannad "I Will Find You Lyrics"

Songwriters: BRENNAN, CIARAN MARION

Hope is your survival
A captive path I lead

No matter where you go
I will find you
If it takes a long long time
No matter where you go
I will find you
If it takes a thousand years

(mohican)
Nachgochema
Anetaha
Anachemowagan

No matter where you go
I will find you
In the place with no frontiers
No matter where you go
I will find you
If it takes a thousand years


(cherokee)
Hale wú yu ga I sv
Do na dio sv i
Wi ja lo sv
Ha le wú yu
Do na dlo sv

No matter where you go
I will find you
If it takes a long long time
No matter where you go
I will find you
If it takes a thousand years

No matter where you go
I will find you
In the place with no frontiers
No matter where you go
I will find you
If it takes a thousand years

No matter where you go
I will find you

I Will Find You lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, FOX MUSIC, INC.

"I Will Find You" as seen in The Last of the Mohicans:

And here is a live performance: