Decided to reupload this one but in WAV format rather than the MP3 recording the first track is on.  I'm considering the collective term for these past few songs to be 'Leaving Lorgill'.  Lorgill is a peaceful glen back in Skye where an entire community was evicted during the clearances.  Every time I've been camping there over the years I've contemplated what it must have been like to lose such a beautiful home.  That's what these songs have really been about.  As most Skye kids tend to do on finishing school, I left to Glasgow to study and with my parents selling the family home, I feel like things are moving on.  I don't want to suggest for a second that this compares to the horror of the highland clearances, I can still visit occasionally, although I still consider this a point in my life where I'm leaving something very significant behind.  These songs have been an accumulation of the things that have gone through my head about leaving and some of the things I'll find difficult to step away from.  This song 'Here' rounds it all up with the knowledge I have that in the points where I am apprehensive about the future or regretful of the past, in times I consider to be dark and monotonous, I will always have my closest friend.  Thanks for taking the time to give the tracks a play and I hope you enjoy listening to these songs every now and then.

Here

I've had this riff for a while now and recently I've given up on trying to put lyrics to it, just don't really feel any need to.  Towards the end you can hear me getting all technological and what not, nice to try something new.

Just Like Before

This was the last song I wrote while living in Skye.  
I think it summarizes how I feel whenever I get back - everything's so much quieter and rarely changes in any great way.  It can be really peaceful coming home from the city but it always feels as though I've taken a step back.

A Step Back

Waking and sleeping, thy presence my light

Be Thou My Vision

A short instrumental cover of 'In Christ Alone' by Stuart Townend and Keith Getty (no copyright infringement intended). 
Fiddle by Alan Murray

In Christ Alone

Be Though My Vision

Had the riff knocking around for a while and put the jist of the lyrics together when I was out fishing in Tiree earlier this year.
Breath, Fishing and Waves.

John's Brother