[ti:The Gates of Dawn]
[ar:Secret Garden]
[al:Once In A Red Moon]

[offset:500]
[00:00.90]The Gates of Dawn
[00:02.70]Secret Garden
[02:42.28]All our music is written as instrumentals, 
[02:46.04]but some of the melodies naturally lend themselves to words. 
[02:49.07]This piece was originally arranged as a simple folk-tone, 
[02:51.43]but gradually started to shape-change, asserting itself into a vocal song.
[02:53.79] Brendan Graham's imagery and Karen Matheson's vocal 
[02:54.91](recorded in Capercaillie's studio in Glasgow), transport us to the Gates of dawn, 
[02:56.50]where we are imbued with a sense of wonder and spiritually uplifted out of the ordinary of life. 
[02:58.14]The simple chorus, with its sing-along melody, contrasts with the distant,
[02:59.75] dawn chorus of the middle-part, performed by Anúna. 
[03:01.25]
[00:06.86]Lyrics by Brendan Graham
[00:23.94]The wheels of life keep turning,
[00:30.89]Spinning without control.
[00:36.01]The wheels of the heart keep yearning
[00:40.69]For the sound of the singing soul;
[00:45.51]And nights are full with weeping
[00:51.17]For sins of the past we've sown
[00:55.42]But tomorrow is ours for the keeping
[01:00.82]Tomorrow the future's shown.
CHORUS:
[01:07.86]Lift your eyes and see the glory,
[01:12.91]Where the circle of life is drawn;
[01:17.90]See the never-ending story,
[01:23.00]Come with me to the gates of dawn.
[01:35.91]And whose is the hand who rises 
[01:40.81]The sun from the heaving sea?
[01:45.36]The power that ever amazes
[01:50.93]We look, but never will see.
[01:55.24]Who scattered the seeds so life could be,
[02:00.80]Who coloured the fields of corn?
[02:05.15]Who formed the mould that made me - me
[02:10.75]Before the world was born?
CHORUS:
[02:18.62]Lift your eyes and see the glory,
[02:22.57]Where the circle of life is drawn;
[02:28.01]See the never-ending story,
[02:32.99]Come with me to the gates of dawn.
[03:32.51][03:11.28]Lift your eyes and see the glory,
[03:37.90][03:15.67]Where the circle of life is drawn;
[04:00.83][03:42.62][03:20.78]See the never-ending story,
[04:05.53][03:47.79][03:25.62]Come with me to the gates of dawn.
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