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Top 10 Enya songs (Part 6) — Article

May 29 2008 — After some delay, “we keep on going” in our list of the best Enya songs.

#5 “Storms In Africa”, from 1988’s album Watermark

This song has two versions. Version I is a Gaelic piece that talks about a “Great journey … through the storms”, without mentioning Africa directly. The second version is in English, is faster and has rain and thunder sounds. (This version has a video, a little cheesy like any other 80’s video, but very good otherwise, with Enya, two girls, African percussionists and all that safari animals.)

The Gaelic version is my personal favorite—and Enya’s too, as Roma Ryan, her lyricist, remarks in the Only Time Collection.

Enya talks a lot about journeys in her songs, but isn’t the life itself a great journey? A journey where everything can change suddenly: “Though I walk through warm sands in Africa, winds will grow soon to storm”, as she say in version II.

We don’t even know when life ends—or when it begins, as many pregnancies are unexpected: “How long is it from beginning to end” (version I) and “How far to go? I cannot say” (version II).

“Storms…” also talks about the renovation of life: “Dark skies fall down into another day” and the need of being bold in what you make: “Lift your heart! Walk through the storms … Go through the storms”.

Both versions have a deep, strong percussion and a tribal-like “Na na na” women chorus, inspired by the ancient African music.

by Felipe Dário, Enya Lyrics webmaster

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Enya makes 47!

May 16 2008 — Our dear Enya deserves our happy birthday tomorrow. Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin was born on May 17, 1961, in Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal, Ireland. We all wish her the best and hope that she keeps finding inspiration for her great work. Thank you Enya, for being part of our lives through your music!

Top 10 Enya songs (Part 5) — Article

May 12 2008 — Our list of the best Enya songs continues this week, with a rather ironic theme for this season if you’re in the US or Europe: winter.

#6 “Amid the Falling Snow”, from 2005’s Amarantine album.

If you’re in Brazil like me, you can believe it’s snowing out there while listening to “Amid the Falling Snow”, because we’re in a rainy fall right now in this country. The Christmas mood of this song is remarkable, and because of this, it made into the Sounds of the Season/Christmas Secrets albums.

“It recalls the moment when you are first mesmerized by the falling snow as a child, remembering the wonder experienced as a child … And there are those who even as they grow older are still able to experience the wonder of snow”, says Roma Ryan, Enya’s lyricist, about “Amid the Falling Snow”. I surely haven’t saw snow myself, but this piece is like a big picture of a small town on a white Christmas like those in the Christmas TV specials. Wouldn’t you give some puddings to the Enya-chorus?

“Amid …” is also a very “remember good times”, nostalgic song. It has a very direct lyric: Enya remembering her childhood winters, with her house surrounded by snow while reading by candlelight (even if I don’t think they still needed candlelights in the 1960s in Ireland). So even if you’re in the North hemisphere in a colorful spring, you still may believe that’s already winter listening to “Amid the Falling Snow”. Merry Christmas! :)

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Top 10 Enya songs (Part 4) — Article

April 25 2008 — Seven is my lucky number—and it’s this week’s number in our best Enya songs list.

#7 “Orinoco Flow”, from 1988’s Watermark album.

“Orinoco Flow”, also known by its chorus “Sail Away”, is for many people their first ever Enya song. It was a very different song when released (and it keeps being so today), and immediately caught everybody’s attention when played. The violin pizzicato, the somewhat tribal percussion, the harp-like synthesizer and Enya’s trademarked one-voice chorus, performing both women and men parts, is only saw in other Enya songs, if ever.

This songs lyric has a feeling of discovery, of trying something new. Traveling the many places cited in this song (“Ebudæ into Khartoum”, “Peru to Cebu”), in a metaphorical way, is learning the world of possibilities that we may have if we allows ourselves to try new things and don’t be afraid of failing. Enya herself sounds excited while singing, as she does look in the “Orinoco Flow” music video.

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Top 10 Enya songs (Part 3) — Article

April 11 2008 — The list of best Enya songs goes on.

#8 “It's In The Rain”, from the 2005’s Amarantine album.

“It’s In The Rain” is a simple, straightforward song, following the mood of previous track in the album, “Amarantine”. For me, it talks about moments to reflect, to meditate. Just get into the falling rain, and make good use of the sky tears. Maybe in the silence of the rain we can listen to our own heart—so “hear it in the rain”! In the second verse, she talks about the time that never stops: “all things come, / all things go.” So you need to take a time to think about what you’re doing in your life—is this a really good thing?—before it’s too late.

Sorry if I’m being a bit dramatic in the songs analysis. I really never thought about all this things before needing to write about them. Maybe what Enya “says” get into our subconscious—and this is good, because she always have positive messages and social critiques in her music, even when so many people says that Enya is “easy listening”…

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by Felipe Dário, Enya Lyrics webmaster