North Of The Noise

“North of the Noise” - (About my love of my home country, Scotland, without chest-beating)

Verse 1
Rain on the windows like it’s keeping time
Grey sky stitched with silver lines
Hills roll out like a battered hymn
Old ghosts arguing on the wind

Stone-cold rivers, stubborn streets
History under your dancing feet
You don’t ask much, you don’t pretend
You just dare the world to try again

Pre-Chorus
From tenement lights to island dawns
You hold your own when hope feels gone

Chorus
Oh, I love you loud, I love you proud
With your cracked voice in the crowd
You’re fire in a frozen hand
You’re the last fierce inch of land
Sing it raw, sing it strong
Like we’ve known it all along
Every bruise and every bone —
My heart beats north of the noise

Verse 2
Salt on the air and peat in the flame
Every mile’s got another name
Stories passed in a pub at two
Half of them lies — all of them true

You wear your scars like family gold
You fight, you forgive, but you don’t do “sold”
There’s a rebel tune in the quiet glen
That rises up time and time again

Pre-Chorus
From city nights to highland skies
There’s lightning living in your eyes

Chorus
Oh, I love you loud, I love you proud
With your cracked voice in the crowd
You’re fire in a frozen hand
You’re the edge of a broken land
Sing it raw, sing it strong
Like we’ve known it all along
Every bruise and every bone —
My heart beats north of the noise

Bridge
We are the rain that won’t give in
We are the shout beneath the din
We are the long road winding home
Never small, and never alone

Raise a glass to the fierce and free
To who we were and who we’ll be

Final Chorus (lift it higher)
Oh, I love you loud, I love you proud
Let the pipes and the drums resound
Through the streets and over the moors
Through the closes and harbour shores
Sing it raw, sing it strong
Where the wild hearts still belong
Every bruise and every bone —
My heart beats north of the noise

Outro (shouted)
Alba forever — whatever the weather.

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