Album version 3:12 English 2000

Quotes about the song

Enya: "As you grow older there’s a lot of change. I just find in my own life there are a lot of things that I think back about and say ‘Why did I let that bother me so much then?’ I think you mellow out after a time, and I certainly have done that in my life. And there are a lot of questions in our personal lives that we ask at times, and I was doing that as well. It isn’t that it was so much on my mind, but it kept sort of popping up in the writing of the music. The song ‘Pilgrim’ is about those sorts of things – I was asking myself ‘Well, what has this been like for you?’"
Enya’s Enchanting World, HMV, 2000
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Trivia

The song was inspired by Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Ghandi.

Lyrics

Pilgrim,how you journey
on the road you chose
to find out why the winds die
and where the stories go.
All days come from one day
that much you must know,
you cannot change what’s over
but only where you go.

One way leads to diamonds,
one way leads to gold,
another leads you only
to everything you’re told.
In your heart you wonder
which of these is true
the road that leads to nowhere,
the road that leads to you.

Will you find the answer
in all you say and do?
Will you find the answer
in you?

Each heart is a pilgrim,
each one wants to know
the reason why the winds die
and where the stories go.
Pilgrim, in your journey
you may travel far,
for pilgrim it’s a long way
to find out who you are..

Pilgrim, it’s a long way
to find out who you are..

Pilgrim, it’s a long way
to find out who you are…

lyrics by Roma Ryan
EMI Music Publishing Ltd, 2000