Roads to freedom

I have walked in the hills, across mountain and moorland
Where the road runs as far as your eyes can still see
Where the wind and the rain know you can take no shelter
And long are the days, as long are the ways

These are the roads I have travelled for freedom
These are the roads that have brought me to here
There's no turning back, and no crying for changes
To roads that have brought me to here

I have been to the Isles and I've walked on the beaches
My feet in the sand, and the spray in my hair
And nothing to hear but the sea and the seagulls
Nothing to see through the tears in my eyes

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I have been down the pits, in the dust and the darkness
Felled trees in the forests three hundred feet tall
I've climbed to the tops of a three-masted schooner
Changed sails in a tempest in all seven seas

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I've known many lovers and lived with their comfort
Though cold is the woman who's sure of her man
Though I still miss the love that I once held so tightly
And I've wandered alone, in the dark and the cold

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Some roads have been lonely, with no friend to guide me,
And some, I have wondered how long they could be,
If I turn and look back I can see where I stumbled
Where I tried to remember, to my own self be true.

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Written for Resolution.

This started life as a reflection when I was staying with a friend in the Outer Hebrides, but became a bit of an anthem.