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I was just starting Chapter 3 of my fourth book when I ran across this on FB. Holy Smoke! I couldn't believe how timely it was and I listened to it over and over as I wrote the next three chapters.

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I'd really like to hear this version by The Canadian Tenors or Il Devo.

Thanks WildBill.

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I know the name if the thread is "The ONE song that speaks to you." But both of these have a similar melancholy. They speak of two possible outcomes of the same love. In one, they are permanately separated, in the other they reminisce about a long happy life together.

"Turn you back on the land face the sea"

In western literature, water is often a euphemism for death. When I first hear this song, I though she was singing to a dead lover. Other member on the Celtic Woman forum say the words are literal. That in Irish history many young men left never to return because of the famine. They often left family and lovers they would never see again.

"Don't look back when you reach the new shore. Don't forget what your leaving me for."

I'm not sure which theme is more sad or touching.