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My light shall be the moon. And my path - the ocean. My guide the morning star. As I sail home to you. [Chorus] I'll wait the signs to come. I'll find a way. I will wait the time to come. I'll ...
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"Exile" is the fifth track by Irish singer, songwriter and musician Enya from her second studio album, Watermark (1988), the song was released as the fourth single for the album on May 20, 1991 by WEA, to mark the use of the included tracks in the "Green Card" (1990) and "L.A. Story" (1991) movie soundtracks.
Liner Notes Quotes About The Song
In fact it was Rob Dickins who argued that the music that would become ‘Exile’ should have lyrics rather than the mouth music which Enya began with. “He said, ‘You know Wilfred Owens poetry, that would be very suitable for that piece of music’,” Roma explains, “The air is melancholy and it reminded me of an exile but I knew some of Wilfred Owens work, and I trued to write the piece in that kind of style. I think my approach to lyric writing is ‘poetic’ in its feel anyway.” Nicky Ryan: “On ‘Exile’ we wanted to use shakuhachi (the Japanese flute) but we couldn’t find a good player, so we got a gypsy guy to play the flute.”
Cold as the Northern winds
In December morning
Cold is the cry that rings
From this far distant shore
Winter has come too late
Too close beside me
The music video was directed by Michael Geoghegan, features scenes from the film "L.A. Story" that used the song.
•A vocalised version of the song was released as a B-Side track "As Baile" in 1991. "Exile" was the first lyric that Enya's lyricist Roma Ryan wrote for the album.
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