Evening Falls... Lyrics
When the evening falls and the daylight is fading
From within me calls – could it be I am sleeping?
For a moment I stray, then it holds me completely
Close to home – I cannot say
Close to home – feeling so far away
[Verse 2]
As I walk the room there before me a shadow
From another world where no other can follow
Carry me to my own, to where I can cross over...
Close to home – I cannot say
Close to home – feeling so far away
[Bridge]
Forever searching; never right
I am lost in oceans of night
Forever hoping I can find memories
Those memories I left behind
[Verse 3]
Even though I leave will I go on believing
That this time is real – am I lost in this feeling?
Like a child passing through, never knowing the reason
I am home – I know the way
I am home - feeling oh, so far away
About
6th track off her 1988 album Watermark.
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According to Enya.sk, Enya declared in a 1988 interview for MuchMusic TV:
‘Evening Falls’ is, believe it or not, a ghost story, and it’s about this lady who had kept dreaming about a particular house, and she was in America, and years later she and her husband were retiring in England, and she comes across the house that she’s been dreaming about, and when she goes up to have a look, the maid and the butler are very cold towards her, and very frightened of her, and she asks why, and they say that she has been walking around this house every night as she was dreaming about it. And it was Roma, on hearing the melody I had written, said this was perfect for the song ‘Evening Falls’.
- 1.Watermark
- 5.Exile
- 8.Evening Falls...
- 9.River
- 10.The Longships
- 12.Out of the Blue
- 13.Smaointe…
- 14.Oíche Chiúin
- 15.Morning Glory
