Merlin is described in the Welsh Triads as "Guardian of the Strong Door" to the island of Britain.
lyrics
Close the strong door, Merlin, leave the outside world to stew
The woodland path is beckoning, and so I’ll follow you.
Close the strong door, Merlin, leave the inside world to stew
The starlit path is beckoning, and so I’ll follow you.
We sleepwalk to the clifftop, we daydream to the brink
We think we know what’s going on when we don’t know what we think
It is all about the money, it is all about who’s strong
It’s all about the light and dark, it’s all about right and wrong.
Close the strong door, Merlin, leave the outside world to stew
The woodland path is beckoning, and so I’ll follow you.
Close the strong door, Merlin, leave the inside world to stew
The starlit path is beckoning, and so I’ll follow you.
Beneath us curl the dragons, above us shine the stars
We stand here in the forest and wonder who we are
You might want to call it magic, you might want to call it power
To see the world the way it is from your many windowed tower.
Close the strong door, Merlin, leave the outside world to stew
The woodland path is beckoning, and so I’ll follow you.
Close the strong door, Merlin, leave the inside world to stew
The starlit path is beckoning, and so I’ll follow you.
The pattern keeps on shifting, there are pieces that we’ve lost
Not many of us searching or counting up the cost
Whose tears fall for the powerless, whose arms defend the weak
Who shares wealth with the penniless, who talks when we can’t speak?
Close the strong door, Merlin, leave the outside world to stew
The woodland path is beckoning, and so I’ll follow you.
Close the strong door, Merlin, leave the inside world to stew
The starlit path is beckoning, and so I’ll follow you.
credits
from A Twist in the Story,
released April 29, 2022
Mike O'Connor - fiddle
Steafan Hannigan - pipes, pipes and more pipes.
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