Rocket to the Moon-Runrig

[ti:Rocket To The Moon] [ar:Runrig] [al:Original Album Series] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Rocket to the Moon - Runrig [00:02.51]Written by：C MacDonald/Calum MacDonald/R MacDonald/Rory MacDonald [00:05.03]Here hangs an open landscape [00:10.17] [00:13.22]A wild and huge frontier [00:17.67] [00:21.32]From a harsh and a barren wasteland [00:27.61] [00:29.50]Through the grave to the promised field [00:34.38] [00:37.83]You came you trapped you charted [00:43.20] [00:45.96]You laid the railroads and the schemes [00:50.69] [00:54.48]And you tamed this land by enterprise [01:00.60] [01:02.49]And by the power of your dreams [01:07.13] [01:09.65]But you made this clan great [01:12.85] [01:13.68]And you made this nation bloom [01:16.70] [01:17.91]And you rose [01:19.45]With your people through the new world [01:21.53]Like a rocket to the moon [01:25.80] [01:33.49]From the olden coasts of Ireland [01:38.42] [01:41.42]From the hebridean shores [01:46.62] [01:49.55]With the forgotten chosen ones [01:56.31] [01:57.98]Running from europe in droves [02:03.04] [02:05.12]But you made this clan great [02:08.33] [02:09.03]And you made this nation bloom [02:12.36] [02:13.34]And you rose [02:14.71]With your people through the new world [02:17.40]Like a rocket to the moon [02:21.05] [02:56.80]There's a town in Manitoba [03:02.81] [03:05.94]They say the windows touch the sky [03:14.13]But across the brine the shipyards close [03:21.08] [03:23.39]In this garden flowers die [03:27.31] [03:31.47]Still the homelands divide us [03:35.83] [03:38.89]Like your blood red brothers of the plains [03:43.68] [03:46.89]But where they grieve a candle still burns [03:53.07] [03:55.11]A prayer from a flicker to a flame [04:00.25] [04:02.35]But you made this clan great [04:05.30] [04:06.38]And you made this nation bloom [04:09.25] [04:10.45]And you rose [04:11.97]With your people through the new world [04:15.07]Like a rocket to the moon