“I can feel it in my blood
that I belong
to this strange and stony rock I stand upon
yet I cannot put a name upon it
I cannot place the time
nor see the land as it once was
nor tell which house was mine
no I cannot put a name upon it
which was where and when
yet here I am
a perfect stranger
home again.”

—  Mike Scott

"I've Lived Here Before" (co-written with Liam Ó Maonlaí)
Universal Hall (2003)

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