Glasgow 1877 - Tuomas Holopainen

«I remember it as if it was yesterday\nMy papa took me to see the ancestral home of our clan\nThe desolate castle on dismal downs, abandoned since the 17th century\nNow inhabited by no-one but golden eagles in its turrets and\nPtarmigan &grouse in the heather o’the clan cemetery\nIn this sight of former glory, of ochre grass and bracken\nSadness and hope, this is where I begin my story\nRannoch moor, 1877, the eve of my 10th birthday»\nTha 'n sgeul ag aiseig bu bràth\nToirt taic bho tiotain a tha gar deonamh mar a tha sinn\nHowls on the moor\nDreams of sailing all seas\nCall of the hills\nAnd a fiddle of farewell