Highland Long Road
Dark viking-country song about the long road home from the Highlands, with gravelly male vocals, fiddle, acoustic guitar, war drums, low cello, and distant horns. Themes of exile, storms, hardship, and stubborn hope.
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Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I left the high stone gate
With my name in the rain
Boots full of black mud
And a bone-deep ache
Mother tied my cloak
Said, boy, keep your flame
I kissed the doorframe
And I never was the same
[Pre-Chorus]
Wind cut hard through the pass
Snow bit through my skin
Still I turned my face
To the road within
[Chorus]
Long road home
Long road home (long road home)
Storms can gnaw my heel
I still go on
Long road home
Long road home (long road home)
Break my back, break my brow
I still go on
[Verse 2]
Crossed the moorland bog
With a sack and a scar
Saw my own breath vanish
Under broken stars
Crows on the fence posts
Watched me pass in shame
No lord left to feed me
Just my father's name
[Pre-Chorus]
Thunder shook the fjord
Black sea rose and ran
I kept my eyes on shore
And the years in my hand
[Chorus]
Long road home
Long road home (long road home)
Storms can gnaw my heel
I still go on
Long road home
Long road home (long road home)
Break my back, break my brow
I still go on
[Bridge]
If the hill takes my voice
If the frost takes my hand
I'll crawl to the threshold
Of that hard old land
And I know my blood
It remembers the way
Through the sleet and iron
I will find my day
[Final Chorus]
Long road home
Long road home (long road home)
Storms can gnaw my heel
I still go on
Long road home
Long road home (long road home)
Break my back, break my brow
I still go on
Long road home
Long road home (long road home)
When the horns call back
I will be home
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