Mary Black - No Frontiers

the collection live 1992

No Frontiers
(Jimmy McCarthy)


If life is a river and your heart is a boat
And just like a water baby, baby born to float
And if life is a wild wind that blows way on high
Then your heart is Amelia dying to fly
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes

And if life is a bar room in which we must wait
'Round the man with his fingers on the ivory gates
Where we sing until dawn of our fears and our fates
And we stack all the deadmen in self addressed crates
In your eyes faint as the singing of a lark
That somehow this black night
Feels warmer for the spark
Warmer for the spark
To hold us 'til the day
When fear will lose its grip
And heaven has its way
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes

If your life is a rough bed of brambles and nails
And your spirit's a slave to man's whips and man's jails
Where you thirst and you hunger for justice and right
Then your heart is a pure flame of man's constant night
In your eyes faint as the singing of a lark
That somehow this black night
Feels warmer for the spark
Warmer for the spark
To hold us 'til the day when fear will lose its grip
And heaven has its way
And heaven has its way
When all will harmonise
And know what's in our hearts
The dream will realise

Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes

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[FreedomSaoirse]

This lady knows were shes coming from.

The passion on this song answers its,self.

Reminds me of the same ideal.

[brobson81]

have seen mary black four times and in my opinion is the greatest female artist ever to come out of ireland.

[musicfreakme91]

i love marys voice from this era, her stuff now sounds different, not sure i like it... love this stuff though, could stay listening to it all day

[FreedomSaoirse]

"were you thirst and hunger,for justice right" This wins it for me.1981

[pbyardh]

Lovely. We saw her in Dingle in 2002, superb.

[sainglain]

@Codarsnacht - so truely said - but just one word answers it, "Greed".

[contraiden]

remember to Steve Jobs !

[FreedomSaoirse]

@computerrage No worries Cara

[FreedomSaoirse]

my sister attended college along with Marys daughter..There,s somewere on youtube she brings her daughter on stage..This girl has the passion were ALL looking for.

Incedentlly..No Frontiers sugar coats me with a political point..It remembers me of the Hunger Strikes of 1981...My thoughts only..And no!!! I don,t have a link for the politically correct..

[computerrage]

@FreedomSaoirse Yeh, She's coming from Ireland

[Sportymike]

@Codarsnacht So true mate! My mother used to play this in the car all the time, it just defines my childhood growing up in rural Donegal

[JaneEMorti]

@framethis rock on framethis!