Anybody else into the Waterboys?

[MrBenchley]

Speaking of the Emerald Isle...one of their greatest bands...

I pictured a rainbow
you held in your hands
I had flashes
but you saw then plan
I wondered out in the world for years
while you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
you saw the whole of the moon!
The whole of the moon!

You were there at the turnstiles
with the wind at your heels
You stretched for the stars
and you know how it feels
To reach too high
too far
Too soon
you saw the whole of the moon!

I was grounded
while you filled the skies
I was dumbfounded by truths
you cut through lies
I saw the rain-dirty valley
you saw Brigadoon
I saw the crescent
you saw the whole of the moon!

I spoke about wings
you just flew
I wondered, I guessed, and I tried
you just knew
I sighed
but you swooned
I saw the crescent
you saw the whole of the moon!
The whole of the moon!

With a torch in your pocket
and the wind at your heels
You climbed on the ladder
and you know how it feels
To reach too high
too far
Too soon
you saw the whole of the moon!
The whole of the moon!

Unicorns and cannonballs,
palaces and piers,
Trumpets, towers, and tenements,
wide oceans full of tears,
Flag, rags, ferry boats,
scimitars and scarves,
Every precious dream and vision
underneath the stars

You climbed on the ladder
with the wind in your sails
You came like a comet
blazing your trail
Too high
too far
Too soon
you saw the whole of the moon!

[tkulesa]

1. I Love that song

I can't say I've ever heard any of their other songs. But I had a mix with that song on it, and I listened to that song a hell of a lot.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. Hugely (although Mick is Scottish, y'know - an honourary Irishman)

Bye-bye shadowlands
The term is over
and all the holidays have begun
Now she walks in fresh fields
her tracks are on the land

She is everywhere and no place

When it's dark and evening falls
she moves among men
They would seek to have her as a prize
But she is in the shadows
the ocean and the sand

She is everywhere and no place
Her church not made with hands
Not contained by man

She is dancing high as clouds
Faster than the arrow
as straight as any crows that flies
Accross great seas she travels
up through rising lands

She is everywhere and no place
Her church not made with hands
Not contained by man

Isn't that a pretty sun
setting in a pretty sky?
Will we stay and watch it darken?
Will we stay and watch it darken?

The church not made by hands
Not contained by man
That precious place
Unmade by man

[MrBenchley]

4. I had to replace my Fisherman's Blues CD

wore it right out with wear....

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. Yeah, haven't heard the latest yet,

but My Love is... was great.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

9. thats a great song....

...I remember that one...1984 or 1985 I think?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Love em!

:thumbsup:

[Zomby Woof]

6. yep!

I am playing "Fisherman's Blues" right now! :thumbsup:

[fishnfla]

7. I will cry, when ye' go away

great song

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

8. I LOVE Fishermans Blues. One of my all time fav CDs.

That album is nearly perferct......me & my partner used to listen to it alot when we had first started to live together.

....thanks for reminding me about it.


I wish I was the brakeman
on a hurtling fevered train
crashing a-headlong on into the heartland
like a cannon in the rain
with the beating of the sweepers
and the burning of the coal
counting the towns flashing by
and the night that's full of soul
with light in my head
and you in my arms

[Sufi Marmot]

10. Yes, although they deteriorated rapidly after "Fisherman's Blues"...

I haven't heard their most recent stuff, though...

-SM, who ranks "A Pagan Place" as one of his top 5 favorite albums...

[progressiverealist]

11. You bet n/t