The Burren from The Burren by Tess Callaghan

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2.	The Burren	4:51

Lyrics

The Burren

I keep saving you for later
And remembering you late
As the light it is fading
Turns the sky a violent pink
Petals in a violet dusk
I stand outside to drink
With eyes weary from the day
Now open wide awake
In the Burren

The stone has drunken in the rain
Somewhere to resurface
And arise rise up again, into the clouds
Into the sacred circuit
And fall on the spring gentian
Down through to caves and streams
To the eternal chandelier
That lights up Burren dreams

As I try to watch my step
Around the grikes and clints
A snail with helix pattern appears
Right near where I place my foot
As a tourist from another land
Compares you with the plinths
The silence of your landscape
Whispers resilience
I walk around the Burren, yeah

I’m in the Burren
Where I like to go

Walking around the Burren
Now I’ve a thirst to climb
The randomly spread stone walls
As sheep encroach like clouds
And guardedly I drive slow
On cattled elbow roads
My inner strength replenished
From its beauty
I take another look around
Before it’s time for me to leave
In the Burren yeah
In the Burren yeah

I’m in the Burren
Where I like to go

Credits

from The Burren, track released June 15, 2025
Tess completed the songs (lyrics, music, arrangement) by mid 2020, then went in the studio (Perryvale, run by Pat Collier, sound engineer on The Burren) September 2020, where the tracks were recorded over two days, with one, maybe two takes per song.

Musicians include Barrie Cadogan of Little Barrie and Dav Ital on electronic guitars, Simon Little of Divine Comedy bass, John Blease drums, Christian Marsac acoustic guitar, Ross Stanley on keys. Tess on guide vocals, final vocals/ BVs done in various front rooms in Florence and Venice, Italy.

Mixed by Luke Oldfield, Tilehouse Studios. Mastered by Alex Wharton, Abbey Road Studios. Produced by Tess.

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