Lantern Road | A Song for Every Traveler (Celtic World Cinematic)

Lantern Road is an inspirational travel song for anyone who’s ever stepped into the unknown — whether you’re crossing oceans, exploring a new city, or just finding your way through a new season of life.

Orla Callan writes music like a postcard from the road: she’s a young Irish songwriter from Dublin who loves to travel, collect little moments from different places, and turn them into melodies that feel both ancient and new. This track is for that feeling when the world is dark… and you keep walking anyway — guided by a small light, an old map, and your own inner compass.

🎬 Visuals: a fun, stylized hand-drawn animated look (comic/storybook style), built around lantern light, misty cliff roads, and a “river of stars.”

If this speaks to you, tell me in the comments: where has travel changed you the most?

Lyrics:
I walk the old road by lantern glow,
Where the quiet stones remember.
A river of stars above me flows,
And my heart turns into ember.

I breathe in far-off, salt and pine,
And let the night come nearer.

Carry me, carry me, over land and sea,
Guide my feet where I’m meant to be.
Sing to me, sing to me, ancient melody—
Mo chroí, mo bhealach, go deo.

Markets hum in a foreign dawn,
Silk and shadow, firelight.
Every face is a world I’m drawn to,
Every goodbye feels like flight.

I trace the map inside my skin,
A compass made of wonder.

Carry me, carry me, over land and sea,
Guide my feet where I’m meant to be.
Sing to me, sing to me, ancient melody—
Mo chroí, mo bhealach, go deo.

If I lose my way, I’ll follow the song,
One small light, and I’m moving on.

Carry me, carry me, over land and sea,
Guide my feet where I’m meant to be.
Mo chroí, mo bhealach, go deo.

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