The Stolen Child 

This sublime song is taken from the Waterboy's 1987 Album "Fishermans Blues". The band is best known among poetry lovers for this recording of W. B. Yeats "The Stolen Child," bringing the well-known traditional Gaelic singer Tomas McKeown to the project, (it's his voice that you can hear reading Yeat's lines). The unearthly, rich Celtic music invites us, along with Yeats’s lines to:

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can
understand

Critics have wryly remarked that "W. B." could easily stand for Waterboys, but the band has more in common with Yeats than just initials. Scott has redefined the term "Big Music" as "a metaphor for seeing God's signature in the world," and claims that his inspiration is spiritual, or comes from an otherworldly source. Yeats himself dabbled in the occult throughout his life, composing A Vision and parts of The Wilde Swans at Coole from his wife’s automatic writing. "I just stuck my hand up in the air," Scott once said, "and everything came into colour like jazz manna."

From The Waterboys Album "Fisherman's Blues"