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9. The Place I Promised You

Lyrics • The Ghosts Of Dál Riata

Intro

Rain on the loch

Wind on the stone

Your hand in mine

And I am home

Verse 1

We came where the mountains fall into the blue

Where the mist hangs low and the old roads move

Where the sea keeps breathing against the shore

And I don’t feel lost anymore

You smiled where the silver water shone

With the cold sky breaking over ancient stone

And I swear every scar I carried through

Went quiet when I looked at you

Pre-Chorus

After all the noise

After all the damage

After every night I barely made it through

I found the silence

I found the reason

Standing here beside you

Chorus

This is the place I promised you

Where the lochs turn silver blue

Where the sea breaks under moonlight

And the glens hold every truth

No war tonight

No world to prove

Just my heart wrapped around you

Under every Scottish sky

I choose you

Verse 2

The wind wrote songs through the grass and rain

Like it knew the sound of your name

And the hills leaned close just to hear us breathe

Like they’d waited years for you and me

You made the north feel warm somehow

With your head on my shoulder and your hand in mine now

And if heaven is a place I never knew

Then maybe it looks like Scotland with you

Pre-Chorus 2

Every road behind me

Every broken season

Every ghost that tried to pull me from the view

Fades into the distance

Loses all its meaning

When I’m standing beside you

Chorus

This is the place I promised you

Where the lochs turn silver blue

Where the sea breaks under moonlight

And the glens hold every truth

No war tonight

No world to prove

Just my heart wrapped around you

Under every Scottish sky

I choose you

Bridge

Sometimes old echoes cross the glen

Voices I buried rise again

But you don’t curse the ghosts I knew

You let the silence pull me through

You never make my wounds a war

You only hold me closer more

And when the past comes haunting through

I find the light again in you

Final Chorus

This is the place I promised you

Where the lochs turn silver blue

Where the sea breaks under moonlight

And the glens hold every truth

No ghost can take this night from you

No past can pull me out of view

Under every Scottish sky

I choose you

This is the place I promised you

Where the rain falls soft and true

Where the glen goes quiet around us

And the stars come breaking through

No war tonight

No world to prove

Only love I’d still run to

Under every Scottish sky

I choose you

Outro

When the glen goes quiet

And the sea turns blue

Every road I ever walked

Was leading me to you

Final whispered line

This is the place I promised you