Craigie Burn ft. Art Hirahara Lyrics

A sunken lane, a muddy track

A grey sky over the moorland

It was much the same when we came this way

Arm in arm last autumn

Those may be the very same cattle

Silhouetted on the horizon

Around that abandoned 4-wheel drive

Just where the land stops rising

Well you see I’m walking here again

Though I said I’d never return

Searching for something I dropped here that day

I walked with you to Craigie Burn

I walked with you to Craigie Burn

So how have I been since that little occasion?

I’m sorry I’ve been out of touch

I’ve been working in a developing nation

And though it didn’t pay very much

My days were filled with urgent events

I thought I’d found my true calling

Like a bird caught mid-flight by a barbwire fence

I kept going for a time…before falling

But here I’m back on these moors again

Searching through the bracken and fern

For something precious I dropped here that day

I walked with you to Craigie Burn

I walked with you to Craigie Burn

I suppose you would say it’s a hopeless task

And even if I found it again

What would be left of a thing like that

Out in this wild, wild terrain?

But even though a year has gone by

Since that morning it was lost

It was made of something enduring and strong

To weather the rain and frost

I just wish I was holding it here in my hands

So our happiness could return

And we’ll never let it slip the way we did that day

I walked with you to Craigie Burn

I walked with you to Craigie Burn

A sunken lane, a muddy track

A grey sky over the moorland

It was much the same when we came this way

Arm in arm last autumn.