Gulf Of Araby Lyrics - Live In Concert - Natalie Merchant

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 

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 world 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 seventy whispers free at last 

Two neighbours 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 

And would harvest every miracle ever known 

If they laid out all the things 

That these ten years were to bring 

We would gladly give them up 

To bring you back to us 

O, there is nothing we would not give 

To kiss you and to believe we can take what is 

What is 

What is 

To what can never be