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Anywhere Is Lyrics
I walk the maze of moments
but everywhere I turn to
begins a new beginning
but never finds a finish
I walk to the horizon
and there I find another
it all seems so surprising
and then I find that I know
<b>Chorus</b>
You go there you're gone forever
I go there I'll lose my way
if we stay here we're not together
Anywhere is
The moon upon the ocean
is swept around in motion
but without ever knowing
the reason for its flowing
in motion on the ocean
the moon still keeps on moving
the waves still keep on waving
and I still keep on going
<b>Chorus</b>
I wonder if the stars sign
the life that is to be mine
and would they let their light shine
enough for me to follow
I look up to the heavens
but night has clouded over
no spark of constellation
no Vela no Orion
The shells upon the warm sands
have taken from their own lands
the echo of their story
but all I hear are low sounds
as pillow words are weaving
and willow waves are leaving
but should I be believing
that I am only dreaming
<b>Chorus</b>
To leave the thread of all time
and let it make a dark line
in hopes that I can still find
the way back to the moment
I took the turn and turned to
begin a new beginning
still looking for the answer
I cannot find the finish
It's either this or that way
it's one way or the other
it should be one direction
it could be on reflection
the turn I have just taken
the turn that I was making
I might be just beginning
I might be near the end.
but everywhere I turn to
begins a new beginning
but never finds a finish
I walk to the horizon
and there I find another
it all seems so surprising
and then I find that I know
You go there you're gone forever
I go there I'll lose my way
if we stay here we're not together
Anywhere is
is swept around in motion
but without ever knowing
the reason for its flowing
in motion on the ocean
the moon still keeps on moving
the waves still keep on waving
and I still keep on going
the life that is to be mine
and would they let their light shine
enough for me to follow
I look up to the heavens
but night has clouded over
no spark of constellation
no Vela no Orion
have taken from their own lands
the echo of their story
but all I hear are low sounds
as pillow words are weaving
and willow waves are leaving
but should I be believing
that I am only dreaming
and let it make a dark line
in hopes that I can still find
the way back to the moment
I took the turn and turned to
begin a new beginning
still looking for the answer
I cannot find the finish
It's either this or that way
it's one way or the other
it should be one direction
it could be on reflection
the turn I have just taken
the turn that I was making
I might be just beginning
I might be near the end.
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I think the chorus describes her dilemma:
"You go there you're gone forever I go there I'll lose my way if we stay here we're not together Anywhere is"
Assuming that there are 2 people at a current place, and if "you" go there, the outcome is undesirable (to be gone forever), if "i" go there, the outcome is also undesirable (losing her way). But yet, they cannot both stay as well, because they have to move on with life, as sung "I still keep on going".
Anywhere is the same, always faced with such a dilemma.
I was such a huge, huge, HUGE Enya fan back in my hippie days. This was the first Enya song I heard after like, Orinoco Flow, I saw it on Rosie O'Donnell and was MESMERIZED! I still have every Enya CD made up until about '99 in a drawer. Now I'm feeling inspired to get them out and listen. I would venture to say that Enya has made me a better person. I think going through my "Enya-phase" definitely made me more easy-going, more understaning of people, less quick to judge or to throw a tantrum. The music just emits serenity. Plus, the multilingual, multitalented, funkily-dressing Enya is a good role model for a young girl to have. I sound like a teeny-bopper professing her love for Britney Spears, but I'm serious. Deep in the soul of this current Rock and Roller lies the deep impact of ENYA.
Right on! I can seriously say Enya has changed my life. She is so amazing!
I think this song is about being stuck in a moment and wondering what you're leaving behind, sacrificing, by moving on. But the conclusion drawn is that the moment this person is in is meaningless, it's just about remembering, not making new memories. And in that moment, that person is alone, and without the things they remember loving so much. They know that by leaving the past behind they can never get it back, but any moment is better than the one that person is in, because they don't have anything. But that also means they don't have anything or lose.
To me this song is very much about the wonder and beauty of life as an ongoing journey. It remeinds me of dreams I had when I was younger.
It is about life and potential - you never stop journeying and going on, with every new choice you make you can go in a new direction and an avenue of endless possibilities opens in front of you. Your journey is never open, and you are never stuck unless you allow it. As long as you go on their is a myriad of possible paths and futures to follow.
But the price of following your own path and being free is that it can be confusing and scary. If you are not following the 'life script'and you are forging your own path and your own life, there are no comfortable sign posts and beaten paths to follow. This can be really scary.
This was the very first song I heard from Enya - my stepsister was playing it. I went out and bought the cd the next day and have loved Enya ever since. Like BtownMeggy said, she's an incredible artist and the kind of woman that young girls ought to look up to. The makers of the Lord of the Rings movies even enlisted her!
Enya is amazing! She brings me to a spiritual place. her voice is so harmonious and full of grace. I feel enlightment when I listen to her music!
Her tones are so hard to match! This is one of her best songs in my opinion. She has some of the most beautiful lyrics i have ever heard!
Yay I'm still in my enya-worshipping phase ^_^ Along with Capercaillie, I think I have heard Enya from even before birth so she makes me feel safe.
As for meaning boomlily seems to have got it ^_^
A very spiritual song