The Band From Rockall - For the Love of Alison lyrics

A man he loves a woman They marry and they raise a child That's the way the whole world over But there's too much life involved Now looking out the window At the skies that keep closing in And deep down in their heart they know The void will never fill Photographs and memories That never fade as time moves on And he becomes the hunter And questions burn like the sun And for the pilgrim The road is always long and sore But for the love of the father You walk it all and so much more There's a road that reaches India and it pulled her to the roof of the world Through the temples of the East she walked A bright eyed Christian girl There the light that shone around her It vanished in the morning air Where destiny and purpose Together walk their dark and hidden ways Now the autumn leaves are falling From the trees and from the rest of our years And all of us are searching For a light that's disappeared We take refuge in our weakness Unable to confront the fear That keeps a pilgrim still believing Swimming upstream in a river of his tears And the leaving takes you home There you dare belief to stand alone Where you laid her name down in stone For the love of Alison And the hills are crowned in snow You face the place of winter till the thaw And through that darkness we all must walk For the love of Alison For the love of Alison Is this the cross we have to bear Is this the love we have to share