Runrig - An Ubhal As Airde (Official Music Video)

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    Official music video for 'An Ubhal As Airde' by Runrig
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    Lyrics:
    Comhla rium
    A tha thu an drasd
    Mo shuilean duinte, mo chuimhne dan
    Nam sheasamh a' coimhead
    Gach cnoc is gach traigh
    Is an siol a dh'fhag thu ann a 'fas
    Tha an garradh lan
    Le craobhan treun
    Le meas a' fas dhuinn ann ri bhuain
    Ubhlan abaich
    Milis geur
    Ach tha aon ubhal nach ruig sinn idir air
    Is co 'nar measg
    A mhaireas la
    Seachad air am is air oidhche fhein
    A liuthad uair
    A shreap mi suas
    Airson an ubhal as airde chur gu beul
    Seididh gaoth is dearrsaidh grian
    Tro mheas nan craobhan lin gu lin
    Ach thig an la is thig an t-am
    Airson an ubhal as airde
    Air a' chraobh a bhuain
    The Highest Apple
    At present
    All you were is with me
    My eyes closed, my memory confident
    Standing here watching
    Each hill and shoreline
    With the seed you left
    Still growing
    The garden is well stocked
    With mighty trees
    With fruit growing for the whole world
    Ripe, sweet
    And bitter apples
    And the one apple
    That is beyond reach
    Who amongst us
    Can exist a single day
    Beyond our own time and our own limits
    Countless and
    Futile
    Are times I've climbed
    To reach and taste
    The forbidden fruit
    The winds will blow
    And the sun will shine
    From generation to generation
    Through the trees of the garden
    But the day and the hour
    Will surely come
    To take the highest apple
    From the knowledge tree
    #celticrock #thehighestapple #folkrock

КОМЕНТАРІ • 60

  • @Dazb80
    @Dazb80 2 роки тому +22

    Having this as my mums entrance song on Wednesday for her funeral. Soothing, sad but poignant thinking about life and always reaching for the highest opportunity

    • @Fee212
      @Fee212 Рік тому +2

      I'm so sorry for your loss. I've chosen Going Home as my Christianity is extremely important to me. And my friends don't speak the gaelic.

  • @markhayes4149
    @markhayes4149 Рік тому +9

    I'm playing this Mon 8th May 2023 28 years to the day my dad gave his last breath. This was in the charts at the time.
    R.I.P. Dad..

    • @nigelallan5988
      @nigelallan5988 9 місяців тому +1

      Mick. I am playing this now. bit late for May but still a beautiful song. Wow 28 years since Harry passed away. God bless. Nidge

    • @nigelallan5988
      @nigelallan5988 9 місяців тому

      Mick. I am playing this now. bit late for May but still a beautiful song. Wow 28 years since Harry passed away. God bless. Nidge

  • @bocklinskitten4335
    @bocklinskitten4335 5 років тому +31

    I will always love Runrig! I came to touch with this beautiful language while listening to their songs, I never found a band that did this in such a performance again, thanx so much, 30 years and still no competition

  • @rachelbrough8160
    @rachelbrough8160 8 місяців тому +5

    This song is amazing. I remember it from the Carlsberg advert years ago and wrote to the BBC to ask what the song was and who sung it.

  • @patrickharte9181
    @patrickharte9181 5 років тому +24

    Runrig...such melodies and use of their own inspirational language is just awe inspiring. Long live RUNRIG!!!!

  • @SuperAllanjames
    @SuperAllanjames 3 роки тому +29

    Why is this not Scotland's national anthem? Flower of Scotland is no more than a drinking song.
    I can imagine Murrayfield singing this, creating a similar atmosphere to Cardiff when Mae Hen Gwlad echoes around the Millennium Stadium. In fact, I'd sing both and I suspect that many Welsh would also join in.

    • @davidtkocz8356
      @davidtkocz8356 2 роки тому

      Good point.

    • @marty4268
      @marty4268 6 місяців тому

      hmmm...i wonder if thats why carlsberg used it?...to turn it into a driking song

    • @jennymackenzie7269
      @jennymackenzie7269 6 місяців тому

      I'm from Eilean Siar, the Hebrides, and like Rory, Calum, and Donnie (singing here) Gaelic is my mother-tongue. But it's a very difficult language to learn and few Scots can be bothered!😢 That's why!! Judge for yourself: how many comments here are written in Gaelic? QED methinks!

    • @Vlad1113
      @Vlad1113 3 місяці тому

      Because, we dont want to forget what occured between nations and nothing stirs like Fl
      ower o' Scotland. But that said this is awesome.

  • @kiskaloo6843
    @kiskaloo6843 Рік тому +18

    I played this at my husband's funeral 25 years ago. We were both huge Runrig fans, I still am.

    • @MrGoMC
      @MrGoMC Рік тому +1

      This touched me. There is a poem by an Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore. In it he praises the sun for, in my crude words, it shines on both his distant darling and him and therefore connects them. Runrig do that too.

    • @granthardy3550
      @granthardy3550 10 місяців тому

      Beautiful and haunting*

  • @deathrotor
    @deathrotor 4 роки тому +14

    gotta love donnie's voice id say he stands equal with freddie murcury or ronnie james dio with his vocal abilities

  • @angelamckichan7061
    @angelamckichan7061 4 роки тому +14

    My favourite Runrig song ,pulls at the heart

  • @clairelouise8927
    @clairelouise8927 11 місяців тому +2

    This was played as my mum left the church after her funeral today x

  • @blackswan6175
    @blackswan6175 2 роки тому +6

    Cricket on the beach.... Sunshine and beer...and of course one of the most beautiful thought provoking tracks ever made...Bless you Runrig

  • @struancochrane753
    @struancochrane753 3 роки тому +7

    Brought to broader public awareness in a Calsberg advert in the 90's, wonderful song.

    • @kiskaloo6843
      @kiskaloo6843 Рік тому

      Guinness.

    • @struancochrane753
      @struancochrane753 Рік тому

      @@kiskaloo6843 I will take a bet on it? 😉

    • @brian7193
      @brian7193 17 днів тому

      And it became the first gaelic language song in the charts after it was played during a documentary about the then Prince charles

  • @stevesaunders6861
    @stevesaunders6861 Рік тому +1

    saw Runrig live demontford hall leicester. best gig i have ever been to. cannot remember what year but possibly early 90's

  • @domenicodima5837
    @domenicodima5837 3 роки тому +2

    Il più solenne pezzo di questa grande band , ormai ( oggi ) di questa musica sì è persa la traccia . Bisogna pescare nel passato si vogliamo allietare l' udito .

  • @brian7193
    @brian7193 17 днів тому

    Runrig were great with bruce guthrie but absolutely amazing with donnie munro on vocals,they were great either on cd or live on stage my fave songs live are loch lomond,skye,pride of the summer an ubhal as airde ,alba,cnoc na feille ,there are so called stars in the charts now who coukd not even compete with runrig so many great songs and happy memories

  • @colinwilliams5249
    @colinwilliams5249 2 роки тому +8

    Many people will disagree with me here but Runrig without that beautiful distinctive melodic voice of Donnie Munro just wasn’t the same without him but what do I know I’m a sassenach 🤷‍♂️

    • @davidtkocz8356
      @davidtkocz8356 2 роки тому

      Be proud of who you are my friend fro Sasainn.

    • @Highland_Moo
      @Highland_Moo 7 місяців тому +1

      You’re spot on. I’m from Skye and went to all the concerts I could during the early 90s….i was born in 1977. Donnie’s voice is very distinctive and Bruce was good but it wasn’t the same.

    • @brian7193
      @brian7193 17 днів тому

      I agree with you 100 per cent while bruce did a great job ,donnies vocals,both English and gaelic were always on point either on cd or live in stage,had the honour of seeing them many times live including the loch lomond show wow what a night,

  • @watson3267
    @watson3267 2 роки тому +2

    Best band ever!!!

  • @margitknabel6219
    @margitknabel6219 Рік тому +1

    Super schön danke

  • @maddog7139
    @maddog7139 4 роки тому +6

    Rip Ray Richardson 1944-2019

  • @jimmclean7938
    @jimmclean7938 3 роки тому +8

    Absolutely fucking brilliant

  • @janettedalbeith9523
    @janettedalbeith9523 4 роки тому +4

    He is the best

  • @granthardy3550
    @granthardy3550 10 місяців тому

    "None of them have the Gaelic, John.", Torcuil laments. I think this song is beyond explanation it touches parts others fail to.

    • @granthardy3550
      @granthardy3550 9 місяців тому

      I don't want to perish like a fading horse.

  • @jennigee51
    @jennigee51 10 місяців тому

    I'd nevrr hrard of Runrig till I heard this over 20 years ago, I knew it was sad and poignant, but knew nothing of the back story, till I searched it out. It's such a beautiful song. I lonve their music.

  • @frederickmagill9454
    @frederickmagill9454 2 роки тому

    Some things should not be allowed to happen. Runrig should not have been allowed to retire. OMG sorely missed. First heard them many years ago on radio Clyde, the Anderson Folio.

  • @johnturner1073
    @johnturner1073 2 роки тому

    How can you not believe in a God when you hear this?

    • @claverhouse1
      @claverhouse1 Рік тому

      How can you believe in a fictional god when presented with proof of the power of humanity when listening to this?

  • @chriscoughlan5221
    @chriscoughlan5221 3 роки тому +2

    im trying not to greet, as they were my recently departed cousins fave band. great music, may they continue.

  • @jennymackenzie7269
    @jennymackenzie7269 6 місяців тому

    Mòran Taing, Ruaraidh, Calum, agus Donaidh! Runrig gu bràth!!

  • @jimmclean7938
    @jimmclean7938 7 місяців тому

    I’m getting this played at my funeral

  • @magmcmahon9038
    @magmcmahon9038 11 місяців тому

    Fantastic

  • @orjan63
    @orjan63 10 місяців тому

    R.I.P Bruce

  • @margaretlamont4366
    @margaretlamont4366 8 місяців тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @norahscibiliasmith6445
    @norahscibiliasmith6445 2 роки тому

    I have this song title as a tattoo!

  • @johnallan3735
    @johnallan3735 11 місяців тому

    brilliant band so they were highest apple is a brilliant song as were all there songs when donnie munro left they werent the same after that

  • @maryqueenofScots2023
    @maryqueenofScots2023 4 роки тому +3

    I know this translates to The Highest Apple but what does that mean please?

    • @JamseyIr
      @JamseyIr 4 роки тому +10

      The Highest Apple
      At present
      All you were is with me
      My eyes closed, my memory confident
      Standing here watching
      Each hill and shoreline
      With the seed you left
      Still growing
      The garden is well stocked
      With mighty trees
      With fruit growing for the whole world
      Ripe, sweet
      And bitter apples
      And the one apple
      That is beyond reach
      Who amongst us
      Can exist a single day
      Beyond our own time and our own limits
      Countless and
      Futile
      Are times I've climbed
      To reach and taste
      The forbidden fruit
      The winds will blow
      And the sun will shine
      From generation to generation
      Through the trees of the garden
      But the day and the hour
      Will surely come
      To take the highest apple
      From the knowledge tree
      Songwriters: MACDONALD
      © BMG Rights Management

    • @maryqueenofScots2023
      @maryqueenofScots2023 2 роки тому +1

      @@JamseyIr Thanks ever so much for the lyrics to one of my most favourite Runrig songs!

    • @maryqueenofScots2023
      @maryqueenofScots2023 2 роки тому +1

      @tacfoley Oh that's sad

  • @janettedalbeith9523
    @janettedalbeith9523 3 роки тому +1

    Music from.braveheart

  • @neildiamondo1131
    @neildiamondo1131 5 років тому +13

    Great song. Terrible video 🤣

  • @corsa772
    @corsa772 6 років тому +3

    Sorry, but an old 4:3 movie transformed to 16:9 are cruel to view.