Only The Earth

Video: Ruth Clinton
Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin: Vocals, Concertina, Clarinet
Alex Borwick: Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Ultan O'Brien: Fiddle
Conor Lyons: Bodhrán
Kaitlin Cullen-Verhaux: Backing Vocals
Ian Kinsella: Backing Vocals
Recorded, mixed and produced by Alex Borwick
Mastered by Aidan Foley
Special thanks to Mark Franklin and the Oceania Project for the use of their whale song recordings.
Lyrics
Time is a place I wish I could leave
Tomorrow’s cliff looming up at me
Today treading water, lost at sea
Yesterday’s ghosts snapping at my heels
These moneyed men would rule the ashes
They would take our home and melt it down
Pick the gold from the wreck of nature’s palaces
Ah but we have a love they cannot drown
A cry in the hard rain falling
A sick river
A wheezing forest
A choking lake and
A staggering mountain
The bleeding leaves
With their open veins
The screaming trees and
The sobbing flowers
The seething sea
The crumbling reef
The cliffs shed their tears
Into the poisoned ocean
And all gather round
To hear the whales sing
It’s the last whale song
I want to be held
I will love you in the fragments
I’ll tie our love to the last island
Before they privatise the sky
Before they rob us of the dancing wind
Before they sell us back the air we breathe
Ah we’ll find our voice and they’ll hear us sing
Ah we’ll find our voice and they’ll hear us roar
We only want the earth
We only want the love
We only want the earth
We only want the love
We only want the earth

[@amityexe8326]

Never thought there would be a song with a whale solo bloody brilliant job lads

[@flaviopennacchio69]

Thank you special musician. Appreciate this song and the album for sure. Whales live in my heart as well as the horses. Slainte!

[@liamoconlocha3264]

Real poetic quality, keep your pop music

[@ZIINOMUSIC]

This is absolutely breathtakingly amazing, well done sir!

[@ZIINOMUSIC]

I've made an experimental music edit of this song if anyone's interested in checking to out: ruclips.net/video/FIJqrzF1_Vw/видео.html&ab_channel=ZIINO Cheers!

[@Ayessa-Ana-Ni-Chaoimh]

My 2 year old daughter and i have listened at least 30 times today. Incredible

[@HUgo.McCann]

This regularly lives rent-free in my head ! it's just so moving ! Love it !

[@johnbarry1342]

Wonderful, thank you so much... life affirming and energising ...

[@conchubharcinnfhaolaidh3341]

This song gets better with every listen. Was played on RTÉ radio one this morning on Playback. So much feeling in it.

[@lyndaross4617]

Yes I heard it myself for the first time and loved it

[@shanegilmore1174]

So good!!!

[@bonk4416]

I just accidentally stumbled into this channel through a media wormhole and I’m not disappointed wow😦

[@DarraghMcSex]

Beautiful. The whale song is pure magic.

[@geraldineking-b6h]

Wonderful unique voice.congratulions

[@SaraSara-kq2ld]

Preciosa canción y maravillosa letra

[@cjmwhitehead462]

This is very special indeed, has an Imagined Village vibe to it too. Brilliant stuff.

[@lettielupin]

💚💚💙💙💗💗