Crown of the Western Wind

[Verse 1]

On the cliff where the heather clings

Salt on my lips

And the black waves swing

Old hound howls at the turning tide

As the ravens mark the sky

Mother’s shawl on my weathered back

Smoke from the house

Just a silver track

Every step pulls the land from me

Still it calls beneath my feet

[Chorus]

Crown of the western wind

Call me home or cast me in

To the deep where the lost names lie

I will rise

I will rise

Crown of the western wind

You were curse and you were kin

If I fall

Lay my heart in the rye

Let it beat

Let it beat in your wild hillside

[Verse 2]

Iron taste at the edge of war

Drums in the hills like a beating storm

Old men carve out the oaken spears

Sharpen hope against the fear

In the well where the secrets sleep

See my face in the water’s keep

Do I fight for the blood I bear

Or the land that owns us all

[Chorus]

Crown of the western wind

Call me home or cast me in

To the deep where the lost names lie

I will rise

I will rise

Crown of the western wind

You were curse and you were kin

If I fall

Lay my heart in the rye

Let it beat

Let it beat in your wild hillside

[Bridge]

[Strings and low drums swell

Tin whistle echoes the main melody]

If the road runs red by dawn

Sing my name in the harvest song

If the sea takes what I am

Let the gulls bear home my hands (ohhh)

[Chorus]

Crown of the western wind

Call me home or cast me in

To the deep where the lost names lie

I will rise

I will rise

Crown of the western wind

You were curse and you were kin

If I fall

Lay my heart in the rye

Let it beat

Let it beat in your wild hillside