The Mystic Meadow

(Hey! Hey!)

Three nights of torches on the ridge
Three nights of hounds and hunting horns
I swam the Shannon, burned the bridge
And slept in hawthorn, crowned in thorns
The ravens gathered where I fell
They called me by an older name
Daughter of the battle crow
With a heart of Brigid's flame

Then I stepped inside the ring
Where the hawthorn guards the hill
And the veil grew thin around me
And the hunting horns went still

Let 'em hunt, let 'em howl
Let the ravens tell the crown
I found the mystic meadow now
(Hey!)
Let 'em ride, let 'em roar
I don't kneel to kings no more
I'm home in the mystic meadow now

Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh
In the mystic meadow now
Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh
In the mystic meadow now

(Hey! Hey! Ho!)

The silver branch is ringing out
Where summer never learned to die
The standing stones are carved in ogham
Humming low beneath the sky
A white stag lowers down its crown
A salmon leaps the hazel stream
And Danu's children stir below
Like they've been waiting in a dream

I can hear the drums of Danu
Underneath the hollow hill
Ye can keep your crown and kneeling
The old gods are watching still

Let 'em hunt, let 'em howl
Let the ravens tell the crown
I found the mystic meadow now
(Hey!)
Let 'em ride, let 'em roar
I don't kneel to kings no more
I'm home in the mystic meadow now

Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh
In the mystic meadow now
Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh
In the mystic meadow now

(Hey! Hey! Ho!)

They'll keen for me upon the moor
They'll sing me sad in every hall
Let 'em wail at the castle door
I was never theirs at all

Older than the crown
Older than the stone
Older than the king
I am not alone
Raven, wolf and flame
Hawthorn, hill and stone
Maiden, mother, crow
I am not alone!

Let 'em hunt, let 'em howl
Let the ravens tell the crown
I found the mystic meadow now
(Hey!)
Let 'em ride, let 'em roar
I don't kneel to kings no more
I'm home in the mystic meadow now

Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh
In the mystic meadow now
Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh
In the mystic meadow now

In the mystic meadow...
In the mystic meadow now