The Man From Clifden Fair
Based on 'High & Low' by James H. Cousins
As I lay down tonight to sleep, a blanket of stars approach me.
And the shadows of who I've been, surround and they encroach me.
And the dawning of a new day, seems to me forever miles away.
But as the dusk soaks up the skyline,
Well I know my soul is still mine.
And I'm right where I want to be,
I'm right where I long to be,
Though my dreams and aspirations are far away from me.
Have you ever seen the sunlight breaking through the mist?
Or ever possessed the knowledge you were well and truly pissed?
And through all the lonely years of chemical alteration,
My soul has met the landscape of ephemeral jubilation.
Now I'm right where I want to be,
I'm right where I long to be,
Though my dreams and aspirations are far away from me.
Well I once was a rich man, though you wouldn't believe it to see me,
And endless people as friends perpetually gathered around me,
But through all the trappings of wealth, of amounts that you would envy,
Well a loneliness surrounded, and abounded all around me.
Now I'm right where I want to be,
I'm right where I long to be,
Though my dreams and aspirations are far away from me.
Through the sands of time you drifted, oh sweet clarity.
Left me rendered and subjected, pleading strangers' charity.
And I know the clock is ticking, on a world continually unwound,
But my friend do not be mistaken, for this soul is glory-bound.
Now I'm right where I want to be,
I'm right where I long to be,
Though my drams and aspirations are far away from me.
Walked through mountainous grounds this morning, picking flowers through wilderness,
And to lost souls let this be a warning, yet to come are sweet moments of bliss.
As I examined the delicate petals, held them up to the pedestal of skies,
Well a warmth consumed the silence, and this I soon realised
That I'm right where I want to be,
I'm right where I long to be,
Will forever be connected to a phalanx much larger than me,
And I'm right where I want to be,
I'm right where I long to be,
And my dreams and aspirations are not so far away from me.
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