The Mystic's Dream - Loreena McKennitt

Goin' to the chapel and we're Gonna get married Goin' to the chapel and we're Gonna get married Gee, I really love you and we're Gonna get married Goin' to the chapel of lov Spring is here The sky is blue (Whoa-whoa-whoa) Birds all sing As if they knew Today's the day We'll say I do And we'll never be lonely anymore Because we're Goin' to the chapel and we're Gonna get married Goin' to the chapel and we're Gonna get married Gee, I really love you and we're Gonna get married Goin' to the chapel of love Bells will ring The sun will shine (Whoa-whoa-whoa) I'll be his and He'll be mine We'll love until The end of time And we'll never be lonely anymore Because we're Goin' to the chapel and we're Gonna get married Goin' to the chapel and we're Gonna get married Gee, I really love you and we're Gonna get married Goin' to the chapel of love

Well we were kissing It was secret We'd had to sneak beyond the kitchen Both well aware that there'd be trouble If the manager should find us You'd got a leaning tower of pint pots in your hand You can carry much more than I can And a wicked gale came howling up through Sheffield City Centre There was palm tree debris Everywhere and a Roman Colosseum It must be boring when I talk about my dreams I'm in a building and I notice That I'm surrounded by the ocean I get a feeling, I start running Don't really know why I am running I never really know why I am running 'Til I get caught Want to wake up to my dream report? And the snow was falling thick and fast We were bombing down Los Feliz It was You and Me and Miles Kane And some prick I went to school with Isn't it ugly when I talk about my Visions of the past and possible future Shoot through my mind and I can't let go Inseparable opposing images When can you come back again? And a wicked gale came howling up through Sheffield City Centre There was palm tree debris Everywhere and a Roman Colosseum Isn't it boring when I talk about my dreams It must be torture when I talk about my dreams

Seven years or seven lives Put a price on anything A word of wisdom to the wise You've given up on everything The more you learn to recognise The danger signs are gathering Will you fly with me as i sleep in you In paradise the loneliness is deceiving Are we evergreen or forever blue? In paradise the only hope is believing Is it trust or is it love Risen to a higher plane We're following a different path It never feels the same again Imagine you could live your life But everything remains the same Will you fly with me as i sleep in you In paradise the loneliness is deceiving Are we evergreen or forever blue? In paradise the only hope is believing If you come to me, i'll succumb to you In paradise the loneliness is deceiving Omnipresent me, iridescent you In paradise the only hope is believing In a circle of life in a cycle of love In a circle of life in a cycle of love In a circle of life in a cycle of love In a circle of life in a cycle of love In a circle of life in a cycle of love In a circle of life in a cycle of love Will you fly with me as i sleep in you In paradise the loneliness is deceiving Are we evergreen or forever blue? In paradise the only hope is believing If you come to me, i'll succumb to you In paradise the loneliness is deceiving Omnipresent me, iridescent you In paradise the only hope is believing Will you fly with me as i sleep in you In paradise the loneliness is deceiving Are we evergreen or forever blue? In paradise the only hope is believing

I wish I was in Carrighfergus Only for nights in Ballygrant I would swim over the deepest ocean Only for nights in Ballygrant But the sea is wide, and I can't get over And neither have I wings to fly Or if I could find me a handsome boatsman To ferry me over to my love and die Now in Kilkenny, it is reported They've marble stones there, as black as ink With gold and silver, I would transport her But I'll sing no more now, 'til I get a drink I'm drunk today, but then I'm seldom sober A handsome rover from town to town Oh-oh, but I am sick now, my days are over Come all you young lads, and lay me down I wish I was in Carrighfergus Only for nights in Ballygran

This glancing life is like a morning star A setting sun, or rolling waves at sea A gentle breeze or lightning in a storm A dancing dream of all eternity The sand was shimmering in the morning light And dancing off the dunes so far away The night held music so sweet, so long And there we lay until the break of day We woke that morning at the onward call Our camels bridled up, our howdahs full The sun was rising in the eastern sky Just as we set out to the desert's cry Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you The tents grew smaller as we rode away On earth that tells of many passing days The months of peace and all the years of war The lives of love and all the lives of fears Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you We crossed the river beds all etched in stone And up the mighty mountains ever known Beyond the valleys in the searing heat Until we reached the caravanserai Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you What is this life that pulls me far away? What is that home where we cannot reside? What is that quest that pulls me onward? My heart is full when you are by my side Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you Calling, yearning, pulling, home to you

White are the far-off plains And white the fading forests grow The wind dies out amongst the tides And denser still the snow A gathering weight on roof and tree Falls down scarce audibly The meadows and far-sheeted streams Lie still without a sound Like some soft minister of dreams The snowfall hoods me around In wood and water, earth and air A silence is everywhere Save when at lonely spells Some farmer's sleigh is urged on With rustling runner and sharp bells Swings by me and is gone Or from the empty waste I hear A sound remote and clear The barking of a dog To cattle, is sharply pued Borne, echoing from some wayside stall Or barnyard far afield Then all is silent and the snow Falls settling soft and slow The evening deepens and the grey Folds closer Earth to sky The world seems shrouded, so far away Its noises sleep, and I As secret as yon buried stream Plod dumbly on and dream And dream And dream I dream And I dream

Alas my love, you do me wrong To cast me off discourteously And I have loved you oh so long Delighting in your company Greensleeves was my delight Greensleeves, my heart of gold Greensleeves was my heart of joy And who but my Lady Greensleeves I have been ready at your hand To grant whatever thou would'st crave I have waged both life and land Your love and goodwill for to have Greensleeves was my delight Greensleeves was my heart of gold Greensleeves was my heart of joy And who but my Lady Greensleeves Thy petticoat of sendle white With gold embroidered gorgeously Thy petticoat of silk and white And these I bought thee gladly Greensleeves was my heart of gold Greensleeves was my heart of joy Greensleeves was my heart of joy And who but my Lady Greensleeves