Well my in The Highlands, gentle and fair Honeysuckle in the wildwood air blazing where the Aberdeen waters flow Well my in The Highlands I'm gonna go there when I feel enough to go
were shaking all night in my dreams Everything was exactly the way it seems Woke up mornin' and I looked at the same old page old rat race, life in the same old cage I don't nothin' from anyone, ain't that much to take know the difference between a real blonde and a fake Feel like a prisoner in a of mystery I wish someone'd and push back the clock for me
my heart's in The Highlands wherever I roam That's where I'll be when I get home The wind it whispers to the buckeye of rhyme Well, my in The Highlands I can only get there one step at a I'm listening to Neil Young, I gotta up the sound Someone's yellin' "Turn it down" like I'm driftin', driftin' from scene to scene I'm what in the devil could it all possibly mean
is smashin' up against my soul You could say I was on anything but a If I had a conscience, well I just blow my top What would I do with it anyway, maybe take it to the pawn My heart's in The Highlands at the of dawn By the beautiful lake of the Black Big white clouds chariots that swing down low Well my in The Highlands, only place left to go
I'm in Boston in some restaurant I got no what I want Or maybe I do but I'm just really not Waitress comes over, nobody in the but me and her it must be a holiday, there's nobody around She studies me as I sit down She got a pretty face and long shiny legs
I "Tell me what I want" She say "You probably want hard eggs" I said "That's right, me some" She says "We ain't got any, you picked the time to come" she says "I know you're an artist, draw a picture of me" I "I would if I could but I don't do sketches memory" Well she's there, she says "I'm right in front of you Or you looked?"
I say "All right, I but I don't have my drawin' book" She me a napkin, she say "You can do it on that" I say "Yes I but I don't know where my pencil is at" She one out from behind her ear She says "Alright now go ahead draw me I'm stayin' here" I make a few and I show it for her to see Well she takes the napkin and it back and says "That don't a thing like me"
I said "Oh kind miss, it certainly does" She say "You must be joking", I "I wish I was" She says "You don't read authors do ya?" At least that's what I think I her say Well I say "How you know, and what would it matter anyway?" Well she says "Ya don't seem like ya do" I "You're way wrong" She says "Which ones have you then?", I say "Read Erica Jong" She goes away for a minute, and I slide out, out of my I step outside back to the busy street, but nobody's anywhere
Well my in The Highlands with the horses and hounds Way up in the border country far the towns With the of the arrow and the snap of the bow My in The Highlands, can't see any other way to go day is the same thing, out the door Feel further away than ever Some things in it just gets too late to learn Well I'm lost somewhere, I have made a few bad turns
I see people in the park, their troubles and woes They're drinkin' and dancin', wearin' colored clothes All the young men the young women lookin' so good Well, I'd trade places any of 'em, in a minute if I could I'm crossin' the to get away from a mangy dog to myself in a monologue I think what I need might be a leather coat Somebody just asked me if I'm to vote
The sun is to shine on me But it's not the sun that used to be The over and there's less and less to say I got new eyes, everything far away Well my heart's in The Highlands at the of day Over the and far away a way to get there, and I'll figure it out somehow Well I'm there in my mind and that's good enough for now