Like mighty ships that sail atlantic foam   The skellig isles parade the kerry coast   It's a strange place   With a needle's eye   Where shipwrecks lie      Chorus   Where the king of the world   Rested for a while   And a place for the pilgrim   A sanctuary of time   Fourteen steps to nowhere   Out of solid stone   Don't lead us to the heavens   Or lead us to the sea      The vikings came to plunder and destroy   But to this day the holy relics stand   In a blind mans cove   Where the wailing woman sighs   And the seagulls cry      Chorus      A journey to these islands so rare   The sound of screaming souls that fill the air   A thousand wings   Against the sky   And grey seal's disguised      Chorus