Highlands

Well my heart's in the highlands, gentle and fair
 Honeysuckle blooming in the wildwood air
 Bluebelles blazing where the Aberdeen waters flow
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 Well my heart's in the hjighland
 I'm gonna go there when I feel good enough to go
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 Windows were shakin' all night in my dreams
 Everything was exactly the way that it seems
 Woke up this morning and I looked at the same old page
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 Same old rat race
 Life in the same old cage
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 I don't want nothing from anyone, ain't that much to take
 Wouldn't know the difference between a real blonde and a fake
 Feel like a prisoner in a world of mystery
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 I wish someone would come
 And push back the clock for me
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 Well, my heart's in the highlands wherever I roam
 That's where I'll be when I get called home
 The wind, it whispers to the buckeye trees in rhyme
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 Well my heart's in the highland
 I can only get there one step at a time
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 I'm listening to, I gotta turn up the sound
 Someone's always yelling, ("Turn it down!")
 Feel like I'm drifting
 
 Drifting from scene the scene
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 I'm wondering what in the devil could it all possibly mean?
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 Insanity is smashing up against my soul
 You can say I was on anything but a roll
 If I had a conscience, well I just might blow my top
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 What would I do with it anyway?
 Maybe take it to the pawn shop
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 My heart's in the highlands at the break of dawn
 By the beautiful lake of the Black Swan
 Big white clouds, like chariots that swing down low
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 Well my heart's in the Highlands
 Only place left to go
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 I'm in Boston town, in some restaurant
 I got no idea what I want
 Well, maybe I do but I'm just really not sure
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 Waitress comes over
 Nobody in the place but me and her
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 Well, it must be a holiday, there's nobody around
 She studies me closely as I sit down
 She got a pretty face and long white shiny legs
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 I say, ("Tell me what I want")
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 She say, ("You probably want hard boiled eggs")
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 I said, ("that's right, bring me some")
 She says, ("we ain't got any. You picked the wrong time to come")
 Then she says, ("I know you're an artist, draw a picture of me!")
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 I say, ("I would if I could, but, I don't do sketches from memory")
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 ("Well,") she says, "I'm right here in front of you or haven't you looked?"
 I say, ("all right, I know, but I don't have my drawing book!")
 She gives me a napkin, she says, ("you can do it on that")
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 I say, ("yes I could but, I don't know where my pencil is at!")
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 She pulls one out from behind her ear
 She says, ("all right now, go ahead, draw me, I'm standing right here")
 I make a few lines, and I show it for her to see
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 Well she takes a napkin and throws it back
 And says, ("that don't look a thing like me!")
 I said, ("oh, kind miss, it most certainly does")
 She say, ("you must be jokin.'") I say, ("I wish I was!")
 Then she says, ("you don't read women authors, do you?")
 At least that's what I think I hear her say
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 Well I say, ("how would you know and what would it matter anyway?")
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 Well, she says, ("you just don't seem like you do!")
 I said, ("you're way wrong")
 She says, ("which ones have you read then?") I say, ("I read Erica Jong!")
 She goes away for a minute and I slide out out of my chair
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 I step outside back to the busy street, but nobody's going anywhere
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 Well my heart's in the highlands, with the horses and hounds
 Way up in the border country, far from the towns
 With the twang of the arrow and a snap of the bow
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 My heart's in the highlands
 Can't see any other way to go
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 Every day is the same thing out the door
 Feel further away then ever before
 Some things in life, it gets too late to learn
 
 Well, I'm lost somewhere
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 I must have made a few bad turns
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 I see people in the park forgetting their troubles and woes
 They're drinking and dancing, wearing bright colored clothes
 All the young men with their young women looking so good
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 Well, I'd trade places with any of 'em
 In a minute, if I could
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 I'm crossing the street to get away from a mangy dog
 Talking to myself in a monologue
 I think what I need might be a full length leather coat
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 Somebody just asked me
 If I'm registered to vote
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 The sun is beginning to shine on me
 But it's not like the sun that used to be
 The party's over and there's less and less to say
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 I got new eyes
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 Everything looks far away
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 Well, my heart's in the Highlands at the break of day
 Over the hills and far away
 There's a way to get there and I'll figure it out somehow
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 But I'm already there in my mind
 And that's good enough for now