Continuing what Emily Solo wrote, here is what Roma Ryan herself has to say of the song:
This piece is an interesting piece for me. There are two aspects to this song. The idea for Enya and Nicky was one of rhythm, one loosely based on the rhythm of looms, while weaving. So the essence of the song for Nicky and Enya was rhythm as opposed to meaning, and although they gave me the sounds they wanted and I put my own meaning to them. So, the lyrics however, do have meaning for us.
I was very much inspired by the story of a poet who learnt Persian. He learnt the language from a Sea Captain who had sojourned in his city for a while. The Captain, in time, had to leave. But the poet continued writing in this new language he had just mastered only to discover, to his horror, that he was not writing in Persian at all. In fact he was not writing in any known language. He was writing in a language that only he understood, for the captain had, in time, forgotten all their conversations. I loved the idea that he was the only one in the world who could understand what was written, and that is why the lyrics for this song have never appeared, other than the chorus which is in Irish, and which can be understood.
Continuing what Emily Solo wrote, here is what Roma Ryan herself has to say of the song:
This piece is an interesting piece for me. There are two aspects to this song. The idea for Enya and Nicky was one of rhythm, one loosely based on the rhythm of looms, while weaving. So the essence of the song for Nicky and Enya was rhythm as opposed to meaning, and although they gave me the sounds they wanted and I put my own meaning to them. So, the lyrics however, do have meaning for us. I was very much inspired by the story of a poet who learnt Persian. He learnt the language from a Sea Captain who had sojourned in his city for a while. The Captain, in time, had to leave. But the poet continued writing in this new language he had just mastered only to discover, to his horror, that he was not writing in Persian at all. In fact he was not writing in any known language. He was writing in a language that only he understood, for the captain had, in time, forgotten all their conversations. I loved the idea that he was the only one in the world who could understand what was written, and that is why the lyrics for this song have never appeared, other than the chorus which is in Irish, and which can be understood.