[ti:You Raise Me Up]
[ar:Secret Garden]
[al:Once In A Red Moom]

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[00:01.58]You Raise Me Up
[00:05.03]Secret Garden
[00:09.22]Lyrics by Brendan Graham 
[00:11.33]Music by Rolf Lovland 
[00:15.22]Started it's life as a slow air 
[00:18.88]with fragments of a familiar Irish tune 
[00:21.41]weaving its way into the melody. 
[00:24.77]We tried to banish the piece 
[00:30.31]but it would not go away.
[00:32.65] Maybe it wanted a different life-form…and so,
[00:35.38] we decided to pursue the idea of adding lyrics 
[00:41.88]and asked Irish writer Brendan Graham to listen to it.
[00:44.41] His books "The Whitest Flower" and "The Element of Fire"
[00:47.31] - two best-selling novels about the life of Ellen Rua O' Malley during the Irish famine,
[00:50.81] had inspired us strongly. He immediately began to "hear a story" 
[02:10.24]in the melody and by that same evening had shaped the first draft of You raise me up. 
[02:16.31]The unaccompanied violin opening is Fionnuala's first and untouched guide 
[02:19.55]recording for the original demo, 
[02:24.92]while Uilleann pipes' grand master, 
[02:28.00]Liam O Flynn carries the tune through its middle course. The soulful singing of Brian Kennedy and Tracey Campbell-Nation, 
[02:30.78]together with the London Community Gospel Choir and Irish choral group, Anúna,
[02:35.07] gives full expression to the deep spiritual longing within the lyric. 
[00:59.36]When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;
[01:07.91]When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
[01:14.76]Then, I am still and wait here in the silence, 
[01:23.78]Until you come and sit awhile with me.
[01:32.90]You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
[01:41.41]You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
[01:48.66]I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
[02:00.47]You raise me up... to more than I can be.
[02:43.84]You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
[02:51.26]You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
[02:59.60]I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
[03:09.34]You raise me up... to more than I can be.
[03:21.27]There is no life - no life without its hunger;
[03:29.09]Each restless heart beats so imperfectly;
[03:36.73]But when you come and I am filled with wonder, 
[03:45.82]Sometimes, I think I glimpse eternity.
[03:52.61]You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
[04:01.20]You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
[04:08.79]And I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
[04:16.31]You raise me up... to more than I can be.
[04:27.48]You raise me up... to more than I can be.
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