Runrig — Rocket to the Moon

[Verse 1: Rory Macdonald] Here hangs an open landscape A wild and a huge frontier From a harsh and a barren wasteland Through the grave, to the promised field [Verse 2: Donnie Munro] You came, you trapped, you charted You laid the railroads and the schemes And you tamed this land by enterprise And by the power of your dreams [Chorus] But you made this clan great And you made this nation bloom And you rose with your people through the new world Like a rocket to the moon [Verse 3: Rory Macdonald] From the olden coasts of Ireland From the Hebridean shores With the forgotten chosen ones Running from Europe in droves [Chorus] And you made this clan great And you made this nation bloom And you rose with your people through the new world Like a rocket to the moon [Verse 4: Donnie Munro] There's a town in Manitoba They say the windows touch the sky But across the brine, the shipyards close 'Cause in this garden, flowers die [Verse 5: Rory Macdonald] Still the homelands divide us Like your blood red brothers of the plains But where they grieve, a candle still burns A prayer, from a flicker to a flame [Chorus] But you made this clan great And you made this nation bloom And you rose with your people through the new world Like a rocket to the moon To the moon