The lead vocal was recorded outdoors in the Silent Valley, Ireland. If you listen, there’s a different atmosphere around that lead vocal. Nicky and I went to visit the Silent Valley, and he decided to record the lead voice there. I wrote the melody, but I had to see the Silent Valley. You know when you gave your love away It opens your heart, everything is new And you know time will always find a way To let your heart believe its true You know love is everything you say A whisper, a word, promises you give You feel it in the heartbeat of the day You know this is the way love is Amarantine Amarantine Amarantine Love is always love You know love may sometimes make you cry So. There is hope when it doesn’t work out, or someone has lost a loved one. “Hope has a place in the lover’s heart.” A love song? It was actually a song about love, as opposed to a love song. She had read about a beautiful place called the Silent Valley in the Mourne Mountains in County Down. Roma was visiting the north of Ireland on the way back home to Belfast. Roma’s book, 2005 Quotes about the songĮnya: This was another case of the lyric coming first. In truth, I probably wrote it to reassure myself, as much as for Ebony’s sake. This song is a reassurance, a support, a hope, an optimism. You continue to learn all through your life, it doesn’t end. Each person must learn and live life for themselves. You would do anything in your power to save those you love from having to endure painful times. Most people are sensitive to life and to others, and are therefore fragile (I say most, as I know some people who are not). Love and relationships are something parents worry about when it comes to their own children. I think teenage years are a hard period to go through, all the freedom of childhood is gone, and you are trying to find out who you are in a sometimes cruel world. At the time she had reached the age when love comes charging into your life. The Memory of Trees promotional box, 1995Ī song of love’s beginning. This is a wish that love may be kind, and if it should not be, that the one precious feeling held captive in Pandora’s box may find it’s place in the lover’s heart.
On Love or the loss of it, no amount of advice or reason can ultimately protect the one who loves from pain or from the disappointment of loss. If love was always kind there would be no need to worry for those who begin this journey.