[Verse 1]
On the brae where the blackthorn leans,
I still walk in fields of green.
Mists keep time with my scarred steps,
And your name in my daydreams.
You were warm in a borrowed spring,
I was stone with a warrior’s blood.
Still I swear by the old cairn’s shadow,
I hear your voice in the cold west flood.
[Pre-Chorus]
Ninety winters, ninety more,
I crossed the burns and kept the war.
But every blade and every flame
Cannot erase your name from rain.
[Chorus]
Heather, Heather, stay with me
Heather, Heather, come back to me
I am still the man you knew.
Heather, Heather, haunt this land
Heather, Heather, hold my hand
Till the morning breaks us through.
You were one brief breath,
I was made to stay.
And I will always love you
In my quiet way.
[Verse 2]
Now the clans ride out with iron cries,
And the ravens wheel on the cliffside skies.
I wear your ring on a cord of skin,
Like a vow that the years can’t thin.
When the moon hits the loch at night,
Your pale face comes on the silvered wave.
I speak to the dark like you’re listening,
Like the dead can hear the brave.
[Pre-Chorus]
I have crossed through ash and frost,
Paid in grief for all I lost.
But the one thing death can’t claim
Is the ash of your sweet name.
[Chorus]
Heather, Heather, stay with me
Heather, Heather, come back to me
I am still the man you knew.
Heather, Heather, haunt this land
Heather, Heather, hold my hand
Till the morning breaks us through.
You were one brief breath,
I was made to stay.
And I will still remember you
In my quiet way.
[Bridge]
Then the horns sound hard from the glen below,
Red on the snow, red on the snow.
I take my blade where the pine winds bite,
And I run with the ghosts into the fight.
If I fall, let the hills sing loud,
Let the loch keep my oath.
If I rise, I rise for you,
My mortal love, my only truth.
[Final Chorus]
Heather, Heather, stay with me
Heather, Heather, come back to me
I am still the man you knew.
Heather, Heather, haunt this land
Heather, Heather, hold my hand
Till the morning breaks us through.
You were one brief breath,
I was made to stay.
And I love you even more
With every endless day.
[Outro]
On the brae where the blackthorn leans,
I still walk in your old daydreams.
Heather... Heather...
And the heather knows your name.
Byroniceye
