Lyrics:
Codail sámh, grá mo chroÃ,
Lig do scith, grá mo chroÃ
Fan anseo tamaillÃn
Codail sámh.Sleep by my shoulder for a time
Rest your head on my chest and I will hold you tight
Stay here with me tonight.I’ll do my best not to hurt you
If you promise to do the same
Your eyelashes distract me
Keep me watching your face, while youSleep by my shoulder for a time
Rest your head on my chest and I will hold you tight
Stay here with me tonight.You like music to go to sleep to
It just keeps me awake
But I’m content to lie here holding you
And keep watching your face, while you…Codail sámh, grá mo chroÃ,
Lig do scith, grá mo chroÃ
Fan anseo tamaillÃn
Codail sámh.Sleep by my shoulder for a time
Rest your head on my chest and I will hold you tight
Stay here with me tonight.Sleep, Rest, Stay.
© eamon brett
About this song:
In recording the song, I’d no plan at all to have much extra instrumentation, as the vocal layering is so dense in places, and the piano has two separate parts at one point, so I didn’t want the sound to collapse under too much weight. But the day the drummer came in, he said he had very specific ideas for two of the songs, and this was one of them. We gave him free reign to show it to us – he explained it as being like a heartbeat, and when I heard it played along to what we had already recorded it made perfect sense, and completely gave the song a sense of trajectory despite the looping of the layers at that point in the song. George also added some beautiful flourishes with his double bass that never intruded on the song, but kept it moving.
Song credits:
meadhbh sullivan – vocals
george guilfoyle – double bass
karl hand – drums
Rough lyric translation:
Relax, love of my heart,
Stay here a little while,
Sleep peacefully.