No Frontiers


Information:
  • No Frontiers has been performed by the Corrs for a long time, beginning with Jim and Sharon before the Corrs were formed. Then Sharon and Caroline sang the song as a duet with Jim on piano. Sharon has also performed the song at her solo shows. Sharon shared this information at many of her solo gigs - include the AVO Session.
     
  • Sharon also performed the song with Moya Brennan on July 31st, 2011 during the Lughnasa festival at the Craggaunowen heritage park in Co Clare, Ireland.
     
  • Irish singer Mary Black was the first artist to record No Frontiers and song was a big hit for her.
     
  • On one unofficial concert bootleg the song was mis-titled "Love From Tears".
     
Written By:
  • No Frontiers is a song by Cork songwriter Jimmy MacCarthy. It was first covered by Mary Black on her album also titled 'No Frontiers' which went triple-platinum and remained in the Top 30 for over a year.
     


Lyrics:
If life is a river and your heart is a boat
And just like a water baby, baby born to float
And if life is a wild wind that blows way on high
And your heart is Amelia dying to fly
Heaven knows no frontiers and I've seen heaven in your eyes

And if life is a bar room in which we must wait
'Round the man with his fingers on the ivory gates
Where we sing until dawn of our fears and our fates
And we stack all the dead men in self addressed crates

In your eyes faint as the singing of a lark
That somehow this black night
Feels warmer for the spark
Warmer for the spark
To hold us 'til the day
When fear will lose it's grip
And heaven has it's ways

Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes

If your life is a rough bed of brambles and nails
And your spirit's a slave to man's whips and man's jails

Where you thirst and you hunger for justice and right
And your heart is a pure flame of man's constant night

In your eyes faint as the singing of a lark
That somehow this black night
Feels warmer for the spark
Warmer for the spark
To hold us 'til the day when fear will lose it's grip
And heaven has it's ways
And heaven has it's ways
When all will harmonise
And you know what's in our hearts
The dream will realise

Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I've seen heaven in your eyes



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