Rescue Me - Dougie MacLean

Old layers of time

Have buried the ways

The others have grown

And though sturdy and strong

His eyes open wide

With each new unknown

And oh it’s for the earth that he screams in the night

He’s a servant of the seasons and the morning’s early light

But the troubled one he says

Rescue me, he says rescue me

On this mountain’s the only place I can see clearly

Rescue me, he says rescue me

On this mountain’s the only place I can see clearly

He says rescue me

And see these guilty hands

That envenom the soil

And take the like from his fields

But now these book reddened eyes

Have discovered the truth

And what it conceals

And oh it’s for the earth that he screams in the night

He’s a servant of the seasons and the morning’s early light

But the troubled one he says

Rescue me, he says rescue me

On this mountain’s the only place I can see clearly

Rescue me, he says rescue me

On this mountain’s the only place I can see clearly

He says rescue me

And so the plough it will turn

And our hearts they will burn

For sair works nae easy

But oh this circle stone

And this buzzard dyke and this great unknown

It goes on and on into the distance of time

And oh it’s for the earth that he screams in the night

We’re servants of the seasons and the morning’s early light

But the troubled ones they say

Rescue me, they say rescue me

On this mountain’s the only place I can see clearly

Rescue me, they say rescue me

On this mountain’s the only place I can see clearly

They say rescue me