Ashes on the Moor
Dark country-viking anthem inspired by a hard journey home from the Highlands. Include resonator guitar, fiddle, frame drum, deep percussion, tagelharpa-style strings, and haunting choir. Mood: weary, rugged, mournful, but unbroken.
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Boots full of peat and rain
Moss on my coat again
Long road bent my spine
But I kept my line
Stone on the track ahead
Cold in the bones I fed
Ridge line swallowed the sun
Still, I came on
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear that drum, hear it call
Through the black and the fall
Hands may shake, knees may fail
I don't break, I trail
[Chorus]
I’m coming home
Through the hail and stone
I’m coming home
Though the wild is grown
Highland ash on my name
Still I burn, still I stay
I’m coming home
I’m coming home
[Verse 2]
River ran iron gray
Took half my words away
Saw my own breath turn white
In the wolf hour night
Hills kept their secrets close
Wind sang through my bones
Every mile asked me why
I answered, "I survive"
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear that drum, hear it call
Through the black and the fall
Hands may shake, knees may fail
I don't break, I trail
[Chorus]
I’m coming home
Through the hail and stone
I’m coming home
Though the wild is grown
Highland ash on my name
Still I burn, still I stay
I’m coming home
I’m coming home
[Bridge]
No gold waited there
Just a door and a prayer
But I know that fire
Keeps my blood alive
Choir of the lost, rise low
Lead me where the cold winds go
I have bent, not bowed
I am here now
[Final Chorus]
I’m coming home
Through the hail and stone
I’m coming home
Though the wild is grown
Highland ash on my name
Still I burn, still I stay
I’m coming home
I’m coming home