Craigie Burn

Craigie Burn
A sunken lane, a muddy track
A grey sky over the moorland
It was much the same when we came this way
Arm in arm last autumn

Those may be the very same cattle
Silhouetted on the horizon
Around that abandoned 4-wheel drive
Just where the land stops rising
Well, you see I’m walking here again
Though I said I’d never return
Searching for something I dropped here that day
I walked with you to Craigie Burn
I walked with you to Craigie Burn
So how have I been since that little occasion?
I’m sorry I’ve been out of touch
I’ve been working in a developing nation
And though it didn’t pay very much
My days were filled with urgent events
I thought I’d found my true calling
Like a bird caught mid-flight by a barbwire fence
I kept going for a time, before falling
But here I’m back on these moors again
Searching through the bracken and fern
For something precious I dropped here that day
I walked with you to Craigie Burn
I walked with you to Craigie Burn

I suppose you would say it’s a hopeless task
And even if I found it again
What would be left of a thing like that
Out in this wild terrain
But even though a year has gone by
Since that morning it was lost
It was made of something enduring and strong
To weather the rain and frost
I just wish I was holding it here in my hands
So our happiness could return
And we’ll never let it slip the way we did that day
I walked with you to Craigie Burn
I walked with you to Craigie Burn
A sunken lane, a muddy track
A grey sky over the moorland
It was much the same when we came this way
Arm in arm last autumn.