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All in the Past Lyrics by Martyn Joseph

Far From Silent

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[Verse 1]
When the valleys roared with engines
And they cried with hymns of light
Disciples with canaries
Dug dark deeper than the night
Now a fiery cloudy pillar
Hovers over business parks
As the lungs of emphysemic men
Sing as rising larks
Sing as rising larks
[Chorus]
But Auld Lang Syne holds little comfort
In history's disarray
The stolen land, the blazing croft
The past won't go away
The boats were banished from Fort William
The pregnant chambermaid
Justice has a memory
Some memories will not fade
[Verse 2]
From the woods of Nova Scotia
To Vancouver Island waves
A burnt-out clan converses
And counts the unmarked graves
Of a nation and a language
Expelled from hill and glen
Meanwhile in the pubs of Partick
Their tongue speaks free again
Speaks free again
[Chorus]
And Auld Lang Syne holds little comfort
In history's disarray
The stolen land, the blazing croft
The past won't go away
The boats were banished from Fort William
The pregnant chambermaid
And justice has a memory
Some memories will not fade
[Verse 3]
And what to sing of Ireland
That will not burst the breast?
From Coleraine down to Fermanagh
The fields yearn and pray for rest
Sweet holy land of magic
Still sending out your fleece
Well, may it come back to you tenfold
With an armistice of peace
An armistice of peace
[Chorus]
And Auld Lang Syne holds little comfort here
In history's disarray
The stolen land, the blazing croft
The past won't go away
The boats were banished from Fort William
The pregnant chambermaid
Justice has a memory
Some memories will not fade
Auld Lang Syne holds little comfort
In history's disarray
The stolen land, the blazing croft
The past won't go away
The boats were banished from Fort William
The pregnant chambermaid
Justice has a memory
Some memories will not fade
Credits
Martyn Joseph

Martyn Joseph

About “All in the Past” by Martyn Joseph

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"All in the Past" appears on "Far From Silent".

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