These songs were born from thoughts along el Camino de Santiago. Thoughts of this mortal coil, the unified theory, the heavens above, love found and lost, the fountain of youth, a pirates treasure, a sinners remorse, gypsy girls, evil souls, dreams and hopes... there are many hours on this road and many ways to get to the end.

There's a bit of revival and pain and jubilee that is inescapable. It's a road to salvation gounded in today - a shower, a meal, a place to lay your head, aching muscles and the wondering wandering mind - where you've got to keep moving if you want to make it to the next albergue by nightfall.

1. Heaven Calling

2. Girl From Monreal

3. Around the Bend

4. The Road To Santiago

5. Magdeline by the Sea

6. You Scandinavian Girl

7. The Devil in Red

8. Gypsy Roses

9. Marie

10. With Every Step

11. The Pilgrim's Way

Heaven Callling (Rowland)

Darkness comes to everyone so turn and hit the lights

DNA financial fees and soon to buy the death from life and

Everybody's rock star world will make the daily news

except for those beyond the show who've just become so old and used

I hear heaven calling, I see heaven calling, I hear heaven calling me

6 billion strong it won't be long, survival of the fit

Business plans in sound and mind with spears they target I'm not it and

Vital signs are measured now with just a click or two

Cultures fade into the past a memory - global rule

I hear heaven calling, I see heaven calling, I hear heaven calling me

Hope is everywhere it seems but never close at hand

Foreign blasts there's gas and glass and atmosphere that will not stand

Nothings really changing now among the good old bums

decades pass I'm getting old but still I think to bang the drum and

I hear heaven calling, I see heaven calling, I hear heaven calling me

Girl from Monreal (Rowland)

On a cracked old road where the water runs

You were there when the day was young

Oh girl from Monreal you're the one for me

On another climb through another day

Travelers trying to make our way

Oh girl from Monreal you're the one for me

Well the days are long and the sun is shining

And you charmed me girl with a real good time

Come and take my hand and walk awhile with me

Well the nights are long and the winds a howling

And you charmed me girl with with these nights of lovin

Come and take my hand and walk awhile with me

Through city town and village too

This life was made for me and you

Oh girl from Monreal you're the one for me

Well the road is long and you're by my side

Oh girl there's nothing wrong and I'm satisfied

Come and take my hand and walk awhile with me

And I'm a fool I know to think the road will never end

I know tomorrow comes so come

and take my hand and walk awhile with me

Over hill and creek and mountain high

This life passes by and by

Oh girl from Monreal you're the one for me

Around the Bend (Rowland)

All along the road, heading into a charging wind

Ain't no rounders there around the bend

Along the lonesome way, where illusion has no friend

And the music plays around the bend

Oh these nights are long, and the autumn winds feels strong

And I'm feeling low and still so many miles to go

Tomorrow's change with time, and I long to hold your hand

When tomorrow comes around the bend

Well these nights are cold, and the mountain pass is snowed

And I think of you, with the winter moving through

Wayfaring strangers all, traveling to heed the call

Where the road never ends around the bend

The Road to Santiago (Rowland - Obermiller)

On the road to Santiago, travelin a buen camino

travelin with peregrinos, travelin the way

Spend the night in old Logroño, drinking La Rioja vino

just the way they did so long ago, on the road to Santiago

Wondering through the fields of cherries, lavendar, sage and potato

Chestnuts, oak and eucalyptus, Monte do Gozo

A shining star they call Pelayo

Marks the tomb of James the Greater

A thousand years have seen the pilgrims

Walk their faith on Compestela

The faithful walk with the non believers

The pious and the doubters, they all go side by side

On the road to Santiago

Where the way is long, the way is wide

Scalop shells and yellow arrows

Show the way for pilgrim walkers

Faith, devotion, thanks, and pennance

On the road to Santiago

Magdeline by the Sea (Rowland)

Down along by the harbor, where fisherman reside

Always a life to be given, a passion to stand on a side

Down along by the harbor, down along by the shore

They said that she'd be waiting and I wouldn't have to wait anymore

Magdeline, she's always standing so close to me boys

Magdeline down by the sea

There's nothing quite like the ocean and nothing in between

The crashing of the waves in the storms in the seas that we have seen

A vessel ready for sail and the coast that it leaves behind

Both look like they could use a change, but nothing comes to mind

Magdeline, she's always standing so close to me boys

Magdeline down by the sea

Now the sea, she'll live forever, but ships must always die

There's never ever smooth sailing boys, there's always a storm in the sky

The sea's a beautiful woman and men will always fight

For any reason that a new port brings on a dark and lonely night

Magdeline, she's always standing so close to me boys

Magdeline down by the sea

You Scandinavian Girl (Rowland - Fex)

The Devil in Red (Rowland)

Listen to it baby, to the world outside tonight

There's danger and there's trouble everywhere

There's crazy populism baby everywhere you look

There's scoundrels and there's liars on the air

And in the night, in the night comes a gathering of ghouls

Where the money and the plans are all made

Shadows right and shadows long oh darling take my hand

There's a serpent he's on the road ahead

It's a savage beast that howls tonight it's a rush to judgement girl

Oh I see the devil in red

They're on the move now baby, they're sowing seeds of hate

There's a coulter that's cutting deep the way

And they're roving through the bush's baby

Looking for the way

To lead the innocents astray

And in the night, in the night there's a trap that's being laid

Oh look for it the spinning of the spiders web

Shadows right and shadows long oh darling take my hand

There's a serpent he's on the road ahead

It's a savage beast that howls tonight it's a rush to judgement girl

Oh I see the devil in red

Now listen to them baby, they've made us the enemy

There's no need to fight anymore, no need to try

We are all that's left oh baby, that's all they need to know

It's a plain and simple battlecry

And in the night, in the night there's a gathering of souls

Lost forever to the masters plan

Shadows right and shadows long oh darling take my hand

There's a serpent out on the road ahead

It's a savage beast that howls tonight it's a rush to judgement girl

Oh I see the devil in red

Oh baby they will find the ones that need some guidance from above

And they'll lead them down the path, they'll show the way

It's all been done before my baby, yeah it's all been said

It's the devil girl and he's back all dressed in red

Yeah, the devil's back and he's all dressed in red

Gypsy Roses (Rowland)

Marie (Rowland)

Ah Marie, I love you, I love you Marie

From the highest mountain in the sky to the depths of the deep blue sea

And though my plans be ruined, my life be spent, my heart will never flee

Ah Marie, Marie I love you

Ah Marie, I love you

From the broken down old cafe chair where I first caught sight of you

Your reflection from a mirrored wall where the light came shining through

Ah Marie, Marie I love you

Marie, you walked by

I was drinking from a broken flask, dark clouds were in the sky

And your eyes they pierced my heart so fierce and your light was flashed from high

Ah Marie you walked by

Well I've been out wondering, my eyes they could not see

My hands were cold and numb

And no man alive could escape your sympathy

And now I see my hearts been made of stone

Marie, je t'aime

Si j'en ai connu bien d'autre, cela ne signifie plus rien

lasse tombe la pluie, lasse courir le temp, c'est tout aussi bien

Ah Marie je t'aime

With Every Step (Rowland)

across the mountain top so high across the open plain

where the winds blow wild and fly with the storms and rains

an ancient road beneath the feet that travels by stream and lake

where no promise that can compete with every step you take

across the lands across the seas coming from afar

to stand with eucalyptus trees and gaze upon the stars

and dream of better worlds to come where hearts won't ever ache

the measure of mankind to plumb

with every step you take

strangers on this road of life some seek and some have found

and here within the toil and strife some freed while others are bound

and in the moments when life will pause

and with the bread you break

you send the ripples that are caused

with every step we take

The Pilgrim's Way (Rowland)

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