New Featured Unknown/Underrated Songs of the Rock Era: "How Can I Keep from Singing" by Enya

Certainly one of the best voices we've heard in our lifetime, Enya's simple music has inspired many. Whether its played to inspire one to be a better person, take care of the things that matter, or just played to calm one down after a stressful day, Enya's music is indeed soothing and magnificent. Hers is one of the most incredible success stories of the Rock Era. She doesn't hit the chart often, yet sells millions of albums. Inside the Rock Era will be featuring many more of her "undiscovered gems" in The Top Unknown/Underrated Songs* of the Rock Era. This is a track not released as a single, but one of the great songs that made Shepherd  Moons such a classic album.

"How Can I Keep from Singing"

Enya

Words and Music by Robert Wadsworth Lowry

My life goes on in endless song
Above earth's lamentations,
I hear the real, though far-off hymn
That hails a new creation.

Through all the tumult and the strife
I hear it's music ringing,
It sounds an echo in my soul.
How can I keep from singing?

While though the tempest loudly roars,
I hear the truth, it liveth.
And though the darkness 'round me close,
Songs in the night it giveth.

No storm can shake my inmost calm,
While to that rock I'm clinging.
Since love is lord of heaven and earth
How can I keep from singing?
When tyrants tremble in their fear
And hear their death knell ringing,
When friends rejoice both far and near
How can I keep from singing?

In prison cell and dungeon vile
Our thoughts to them are winging,
When friends by shame are undefiled
How can I keep from singing?