White Wings on the Rock — A Song Inspired by White Wings on the Rock - After more than 320 years in private family ownership, Scotland's Bass Rock and Craigleith were transferred to RSPB Scotland so vast colonies of northern gannets and puffins can be protected under conservation stewardship. Family that owned the islands for centuries transfers them to protect about 100,000 gannets and 10,000 puffins amid mounting seabird threats.

[Intro]
Salt in the lock
White wings on the rock

[Verse 1]
Three hundred winters kept a name
Pressed in a drawer with the deeds
But the cliff was breathing all the same
With a hundred thousand needs
The sea kept speaking under stone
The lighthouse kept one eye
And every spring came back alone
To ask who owns the sky

[Pre-Chorus]
No crown can hold the weather
No hand can chain the flock
The old gate gives a shiver
Then opens in the shock

[Chorus]
White wings on the rock
Let the old crown fall
White wings on the rock
They were never ours at all
Open the name, unfasten the lock
White wings on the rock

[Verse 2]
Puffin sparks in the black wet wall
Gannet ghosts in the gale
Paper turns to featherfall
And the castle exhales
What we keep can turn to cage
What we love can learn release
Let the ledge become a cradle
Let the storm come home in peace

[Bridge]
Not every leaving is losing
Not every ending is gone
Sometimes the hand stops bruising
When it opens before dawn
The lighthouse does not rule them
It only stays awake
To watch the crown become a shelter
To watch the old claim break

[Final Chorus]
White wings on the rock
Let the old crown fall
White wings on the rock
They were never ours at all
Open the name, unfasten the lock
White wings on the rock
White wings on the rock

[Outro]
The deed turns into feathers
The name turns into sky
White wings on the rock
Still returning, still alive