Runrig — The Message

[Verse 1] I'm gonna dance you 'round the floor Gonna drink you under the tables Gonna take the last flight home To Balivanich in the month of June Go racin' up the south ford Turnin' midnight in the cars Waitin' up late with the Greenock girls They're singin' every song that made us [Chorus] You take your message to the waters And you watch the ripples flow Now somewhere out on that ocean It says, Mary, please don't go [Verse 2] We're gonna lie down on the grass Your lipstick in the clover Gonna marry Mary in the summertime The Atlantic 'round our shoulders Skies are dawnin' round the Langass Barpa Stopped off at the Whitebridge waters It's all crossroads lined with telegraph poles The rise of lark song fills the morning [Chorus] You take your message to the waters And you watch the ripples flow Now somewhere out on that ocean Lies our fear should we grow old You take your message to the waters And you watch the ripples flow Now somewhere out on that ocean It says, Mary, please don't go [Verse 3] And when we wasted all our young years Who's to say we never tried To live fast and honour our pledges Here we vowed to stay young till we die We drank the life from the last of the bottle We wrote our message out like a prayer Then we threw away the message with all our hearts And we watched our lives disappear [Chorus] You take your message to the waters And you watch the ripples flow Now somewhere out on that great beyond Lies our fear should we grow old You take your message to the waters And you watch the ripples flow Now somewhere out on that ocean It says, Mary, please don't go