Incredibly haunting...

Just when I give the lefties and righties a hard time, I find a song that makes me want to take sides again.

If you've never listened to the song "The Island", written by Paul Brady, most recently performed by Celtic Thunder -- you owe yourself the listen. The lyrics are haunting and challenging -- and Keith's voice lamenting sorrowfully will pull at your heartstrings in ways that perhaps no other song ever has. Here's a YouTube link to it -- check out the other Celtic Thunder stuff whilst you're there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dr3ZmSZ8yOW8&sa=U&ei=nkjgS_CnMY_cNZqygL4H&oi=video_result&ct=res&cad=12643405470278760815&ved=0CCEQtwIwBA&cd=5&usg=AFQjCNEf9aT_msQNktwTVk9sDUJtzUB5hg

Excerpt of Lyrics:

Women and children dying in the street
And we're still at it in our own place
Still tryin’ to reach the future through the past
Still tryin’ to carve tomorrow from a tombstone...

Up here we sacrifice our children
To feed the worn-out dreams of yesterday
And teach them dying will lead us into glory...

Now I know us plain folks don't see all the story
And I know this peace and love's just copping out
And I guess these young boys dying in the ditches
Is just what being free is all about
And how this twisted wreckage down on main street
Will bring us all together in the end
And we'll go marching down the road to freedom... Freedom... Freedom.............