Christy Moore warns of climate-change consequences in new single as 'Clock Winds Down'

The folk legend name-checks Greta Thunberg and the Friday for Future movement as he soberly surveys the modern landscape in a new single, accompanied by an animated video
Christy Moore warns of climate-change consequences in new single as 'Clock Winds Down'

Christy Moore performs in Claremorris in 2015: the folk legend returns with a new single, bearing a heavy message

"It's hard to know, what to say, as the world around us fades away/Reason falls, on deaf ears, as the truth dissolves, and disappears."

Christy Moore has always had a knack for cutting right to the heart of matters, and the master of folk certainly doesn't spare listeners the length of writer Jim Page's lyrical blade in new single 'Clock Winds Down', released this week.

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