Released: September 19, 1988
Songwriter: Enya
Producer: Nicky Ryan
[Verse 1]
When the evening falls and the daylight is fading
From within me calls – could it be I am sleeping?
For a moment I stray, then it holds me completely
Close to home – I cannot say
Close to home – feeling so far away
[Verse 2]
As I walk the room there before me a shadow
From another world where no other can follow
Carry me to my own, to where I can cross over...
Close to home – I cannot say
Close to home – feeling so far away
[Bridge]
Forever searching; never right
I am lost in oceans of night
Forever hoping I can find memories
Those memories I left behind
[Verse 3]
Even though I leave will I go on believing
That this time is real – am I lost in this feeling?
Like a child passing through, never knowing the reason
I am home – I know the way
I am home - feeling oh, so far away
When the evening falls and the daylight is fading
From within me calls – could it be I am sleeping?
For a moment I stray, then it holds me completely
Close to home – I cannot say
Close to home – feeling so far away
[Verse 2]
As I walk the room there before me a shadow
From another world where no other can follow
Carry me to my own, to where I can cross over...
Close to home – I cannot say
Close to home – feeling so far away
[Bridge]
Forever searching; never right
I am lost in oceans of night
Forever hoping I can find memories
Those memories I left behind
[Verse 3]
Even though I leave will I go on believing
That this time is real – am I lost in this feeling?
Like a child passing through, never knowing the reason
I am home – I know the way
I am home - feeling oh, so far away
Only Time: The Collection
- Shepherd Moons
- Watermark
- Caribbean Blue
- Na Laetha Geal M’Óige
- Athair ar Neamh
- Deora Ar Mo Chroí
- Pax Deorum
- Eclipse
- The First of Autumn
- A Day Without Rain
- Song of the Sandman (Lullaby)
- Tempus Vernum
- The Memory of Trees
- Willows on the Water
- No Holly for Miss Quinn
- Tea-House Moon
- The Sun in the Stream
- Miss Clare Remembers
- Lothlórien
- Boadicea
- River
- Oíche Chiúin
- Afer Ventus
- May It Be
- Isobella
- Lazy Days
- How Can I Keep From Singing?
- The Longships
- Evening Falls...
- Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)
- Exile
- Storms in Africa
- On Your Shore
- March of the Celts
- I Want Tomorrow
- Aldebaran
- Ebudæ
- Book of Days
- One by One
- Fallen Embers
- Flora’s Secret
- Only Time
- Wild Child
- Hope Has a Place
- China Roses
- Anywhere Is
- Marble Halls
- Evacuee
- The Celts
- Watermark (1988)
- 6 Tracks (1989)
- Orinoco Flow (3 Tracks EP) (1990)
- A Box of Dreams (1997)
- Themes from Calmi Cuori Appassionati (2001)
- Only Time: The Collection (2002)
- Only Time
- May It Be
- Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)
- So I Could Find My Way
- Caribbean Blue
- Echoes in Rain
- One by One
- The Humming
- Wild Child
- Anywhere Is
- Dark Sky Island
- Boadicea
- The Celts
- Aldebaran
- I Want Tomorrow
- March of the Celts
- Triad
- On Your Shore
- Storms in Africa
- Exile
- Evening Falls...
- The Longships
- Storms in Africa (Part II)
- How Can I Keep From Singing?