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Intro

 If you could fill a veil with shells from Killiney's shore

 and sweet talk in a tongue that is no more

 If wishful thought could bridge

 The Gulf Of Araby

 Between what is, what is, what is

 And what can never be

 If you could hold the frozen flow of New Hope Creek

 And hide out from the one they said you might meet

 If you could unlearn all the words

 That you never wanted heard

 If you could stall the southern wind

 That's whistling in your ear

 You could take what is, what is, what is

 To what can never be

One man of sventy whispers free at last

Two neighbors who are proud of their massacres

Three tyrants torn away in a winter's month

Four prisoners framed by a dirty judge

Five burned with tyres

Six men still alive

 And seven more days to shake at the great divide

 The Gulf

 The Gulf

 of Araby

 The Gulf

 The Gulf

 of Araby

We would plough and part the earth to bring you home

We would harvest every miracle ever known

If they laid out all the things

That these ten years want to bring

We would gladly give them up

To bring you back to us

O, there is nothing wewould not give

To kiss you and believe we can take what is, what is, what is

To what can never be

One man of seventy whispers not free yet

Two neighbors who make up knee-deep in their dead

Three tyrants torn away in the summer's heat

Four prisoners lost in the fallacy

Five, on my life

Six, I'm dead inside

And seven more days to shake at the great divide

The Gulf Of Araby