Soil and Soul lyrics

There's a woman in the mountain

There's a woman in the hill

There's a woman in the mountain

Who knows this place well

There's a bird that's circling

And then roosting and watching

Every trickle unfolding

Every stream separating

Into soil and soul

Soul and sea

What will we leave, when we leave?

What will we leave, when we leave?

Life is a story

Between clan and stranger

Between landlord and crofter

Between saints and nature

It's the red of a fox cub

Bleeding in the hedgerow

And the red of our death chase

A tail-coated "Tally-Ho!"

And soil and soul

Soul and sea

What will we leave, when we leave?

What will we leave, when we leave?

Our time will tell

If the cuckoo call is sweeter than the church bell

Or the school bell or the factory bell

Our time will tell

Of Roman roads and standing stones

Then motorcars and rivers streaked

In petrol rainbows, tools and bones

And coins spilling down the side streets

There's a bird that's circling

And then roosting and watching

Every trickle unfolding

Every stream separating

There's a woman in the mountain

There's a woman in the hill

There's a woman in the mountain

Who knows this place well

And she's telling a story

Of clan and stranger

Of landlord and crofter

Of saints and nature

She's telling a story

Of clan and stranger

Of landlord and crofter

Of saints and nature

There's a woman in the mountain

There's a woman who's dying

She loosens her grip

And this whole island slips away

To soil and soul,

Soul and sea,

What will leave, when we leave?

What will we leave, when we leave?

Soil and soul

Soul and sea

What will we lose, if we lose?

What will we leave, when we leave?