Like mighty ships that sail Atlantic foam The Skellig Isles parade the Kerry Coast It's a strange place With a needle's eye Where shipwrecks lie
Chorus: Where the king of the world rested for awhile And a place for the pilgrim, a sanctuary of time Fourteen steps to nowhere out of solid stone Don't lead us to the heavens or lead us to the sea
The Vikings came to plunder and destroy But to this day the holy relics stand In a blind man's cove Where the wailing women sigh And the seagulls cry
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A journey to these islands so rare The sound of screaming souls that fill the air A thousand wings Against the sky And gray seals disguised