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Lyrics:

The year grows old, the frost takes hold,

Memories warm the evening cold.

Smoke curls up to the moon’s pale glow,

A night we’ve shared since long ago.

The fires we light on this chilled ground

Are for the voices no longer around.

Their favorite tales, their stubborn pride,

Live where the pumpkins glow inside.

So hold it close, this fleeting spark,

A bridge between the light and dark.

When the old year bows to the new year’s grace,

We’ll meet again in this shared space.

Hey now, gather ‘round the flame (come close),

Every loss and every name (call them home),

Lives tonight in the stories we say (hear it now),

Shamhain’s here, and love won’t fade away (never).

Hey now, let the past remind (hold on),

What we leave but never dies (still alive),

In the embers, in the clay (deep inside),

Shamhain’s here, and love… stays.

Your mother’s hands in the bread she’d knead,

Your uncle’s joke in the walnut seed,

The path they walked through the apple trees

Still guides us home in the autumn breeze.

The clock may turn, the world may spin,

But what’s behind us pulls us in.

Not gone, just gone ahead,

A harvest of the love we’ve kept.

Hey now, gather ‘round the flame,

Every loss and every name,

Lives tonight in the stories we say.

Shamhain’s here, and love won’t fade away.

Hey now, let the past remind (don’t forget),

What we leave but never dies (still breathing),

In the embers, in the clay (deep within),

Shamhain’s here, and love… stays.

Love stays...

The frost will melt, the sun return,

But tonight, the ones we miss… burn (with us).