Only The Earth

Video: Ruth Clinton

Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin: Vocals, Concertina, Clarinet
Alex Borwick: Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Ultan O'Brien: Fiddle
Conor Lyons: Bodhrán
Kaitlin Cullen-Verhaux: Backing Vocals
Ian Kinsella: Backing Vocals

Recorded, mixed and produced by Alex Borwick
Mastered by Aidan Foley

Special thanks to Mark Franklin and the Oceania Project for the use of their whale song recordings.

Lyrics

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