On a cold and wind-worn morning By the cliffs of broken stone I heard the gulls cry out my name Like a ghost that’s left alone The tide it pulled my footprints From the place where I begun And I whispered to the ocean— “If I never see the sun…” Chorus If I never see the sun rise Over fields of emerald green Let my bones lie with the heather Where my heart has always been And if the dark should take me Before my day is done Sing me back to where I’m from If I never see the sun Verse 2 There’s a fire in the distance And a road I cannot find Through the mist of all my yesterdays And the sins I left behind Oh the bells they toll like thunder For the lost and for the young And they echo through my silence— “If you never see the sun…” Chorus If I never see the sun rise Over fields of emerald green Let my bones lie with the heather Where my heart has always been And if the dark should take me Before my day is done Sing me back to where I’m from If I never see the sun Bridge Lay me down by the old stone wall Where the wild winds always cry With a prayer upon my mother’s lips And a tear she won’t deny Tell my love I never wandered far Though the world I had to run For my soul was always bound to her— If I never see the sun Final Chorus If I never see the sun rise Let the rivers carry me Through the valleys of forever To the arms of memory And when the night has claimed me And my weary race is run Let them say I died believing— I would see another sun
