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Every now and then
I'm reminded of a memory
Taken back to a place
Far away, long ago
There's an abandoned croft house on Harris
The stale smell of the old thatch
The quiet in this forgotten place
Devoid of people now, only us
I remember the tension,
The anticipation, expectation
Everything leading up to this
There's an abandoned croft house on Harris
Vaguely wondering who lived here
The lives they led, through the generations
No clues left to who they were
Or why they left this sanctuary
Lost to time now, ghosts of the past,
Memories hang suspended in time
There's an abandoned croft house on Harris
A place of contradiction, juxtapositions
Ancient culture meets modern ideas
Fighting for their place here
There was love in this emptiness
This house - a symbol of the past but currently my present
Right here and now, we're caught in this instant
There's an abandoned croft house on Harris
A moment, lost to time,
Verdant even now, despite the years
Recalled in another time, another world
Drawing a smile in the small hours, in the quiet dark
A life now changed drastically from those days
Some things are unimaginable on the mainland
There's an abandoned croft house on Harris
In this town there are sprawling housing estates
Creeping steadily across the landscape
Towering buildings blocking out the sun
Endlessly rolling by the bus window
As I make my way to an office job
No quiet corners here in which to steal a moment
But my heart's still in the Hebrides
In an abandoned croft house on Harris