Take Us Back

Atop the crags and cliffs, the air is thin
 So we'll find a mountain path on down the hill
 Meet me where the snowmelt flows
 It is there, my dear, where we will begin again
 Skipping stones, braiding hair
 Last year's antlers mark the trail
 Take us back, oh, take us back
 Oh, take us, take us back
 Take us back, oh, take us back
 Oh, take us, take us back
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 I've a friend who lives out by the rivers mouth
 He knows the fiddles cry is an old sound
 A lonesome bow, the creeks and moans of empty houses
 Are songs like falling rain
 
 Windblown buildings, muddy ground
 The strength of water can sink a man
 Take us back, oh, take us back
 Oh, take us, take us back
 Take us back, oh, take us back
 Oh, take us, take us back
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 When the higher hills have turned to blue
 And the waves are lapping where the children grew
 All that we have known will be an echo
 Of days when love was true
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 Muted voices just beyond
 The silent surface of what has gone