[00:01.20]Highlands
[00:37.33]Well my heart’s in the Highlands gentle and fair
[00:46.61]Honeysuckle blooming in the wildwood air
[00:53.65]Bluebelles blazing where the Aberdeen waters flow
[01:08.35]Well my heart’s in the Highland
[01:12.35]I’m gonna go there when I feel good enough to go
[01:25.77]Windows were shakin’ all night in my dreams
[01:33.64]Everything was exactly the way that it seems
[01:41.53]Woke up this morning and I looked at the same old page
[01:57.09]Same old rat race
[02:02.03]Life in the same old cage
[02:12.37]I don’t want nothing from anyone, ain’t that much to take
[02:20.41]Wouldn’t know the difference between a real blonde and a fake
[02:28.96]Feel like a prisoner in a world of mystery
[02:42.69]I wish someone would come and push back the clock for me
[02:58.51]Well my heart’s in the Highlands wherever I roam
[03:08.16]That’s where I’ll be when I get called home
[03:16.13]The wind, it whispers to the buckeyed trees in rhyme
[03:30.25]Well my heart’s in the Highland
[03:34.07]I can only get there one step at a time
[03:46.06]I’m listening to Neil Young, I gotta turn up the sound
[03:55.05]Someone’s always yelling "turn it down"
[04:03.16]Feel like I’m drifting
[04:07.89]Drifting from scene to scene
[04:18.72]I’m wondering what in the devil could it all possibly mean?
[04:34.48]Insanity is smashing up against my soul
[04:41.96]You can say I was on anything but a roll
[04:50.15]If I had a conscience, well, I just might blow my top
[05:05.61]What would I do with it anyway
[05:10.28]Maybe take it to the pawn shop
[05:21.58]My heart’s in the Highlands at the break of dawn
[05:29.07]By the beautiful lake of the Black Swan
[05:37.44]Big white clouds like chariots that swing down low
[05:51.66]Well my heart’s in the Highlands
[05:57.95]Only place left to go
[06:07.67]I’m in Boston town, in some restaurant
[06:16.63]I got no idea what I want
[06:24.70]Well, maybe I do but I’m just really not sure
[06:40.24]Waitress comes over
[06:43.70]Nobody in the place but me and her
[06:54.40]It must be a holiday, there’s nobody around
[07:03.64]She studies me closely as I sit down
[07:11.98]She got a pretty face and long white shiny legs
[07:25.90]I said 'Tell me what I want'
[07:31.45]She say 'You probably want hard boiled eggs'
[07:42.92]I said 'That's right,bring me some'
[07:50.68]She says 'We ain't got any,you picked the wrong time to come'
[07:58.54]Then she says, “I know you’re an artist, draw a picture of me!”
[08:13.01]I say, “I would if I could, but
[08:18.11]I don’t do sketches from memory”
[08:28.80]“Well,” she says, “I’m right here in front of you, or haven’t you looked?”
[08:37.62]I say, “All right, I know, but I don’t have my drawing book!”
[08:45.98]She gives me a napkin, she says, “You can do it on that”
[09:01.44]I say, “Yes I could, but I don’t know where my pencil is at!” “
[09:17.18]She pulls one out from behind her ear
[09:25.28]She says, “All right now, go ahead, draw me, I’m standing right here”
[09:33.36]I make a few lines and I show it for her to see
[09:47.58]Well she takes the napkin and throws it back
[09:50.63]And says, “That don’t look a thing like me!”
[10:04.26]I said, “Oh, kind Miss, it most certainly does”
[10:12.58]She says, “You must be jokin’.” I say, “I wish I was!”
[10:19.92]Then she says, “You don’t read women authors, do you?”
[10:24.76]Least that’s what I think I hear her say
[10:34.63]“Well,” I say, “how would you know and what would it matter anyway?”
[10:50.40]“Well,” she says, “you just don’t seem like you do!”
[10:55.89]I said, “You’re way wrong”
[10:59.58]She says, “Which ones have you read then?” I say, “I read Erica Jong!”
[11:07.50]She goes away for a minute
[11:12.35]And I slide up out of my chair
[11:21.76]I step outside back to the busy street but nobody’s going anywhere
[11:37.57]Well my heart’s in the Highlands with the horses and hounds
[11:46.75]Way up in the border country, far from the towns
[11:54.54]With the twang of the arrow and a snap of the bow
[12:09.53]My heart’s in the Highlands
[12:14.52]Can’t see any other way to go
[12:26.27]Every day is the same thing out the door
[12:33.80]Feel further away than ever before
[12:41.67]Some things in life, it gets too late to learn
[12:55.41]Well, I’m lost somewhere
[13:02.11]I must have made a few bad turns
[13:13.21]I see people in the park forgetting their troubles and woes
[13:21.15]They’re drinking and dancing, wearing bright-colored clothes
[13:29.51]All the young men with their young women looking so good
[13:43.38]Well, I’d trade places with any of them
[13:50.55]In a minute, if I could
[14:00.13]I’m crossing the street to get away from a mangy dog
[14:08.57]Talking to myself in a monologue
[14:16.32]I think what I need might be a full-length leather coat
[14:31.50]Somebody just asked me
[14:37.12]If I registered to vote
[14:47.48]The sun is beginning to shine on me
[14:55.29]But it’s not like the sun that used to be
[15:03.42]The party’s over and there’s less and less to say
[15:18.88]I got new eyes
[15:23.59]Everything looks far away
[15:33.34]Well, my heart’s in the Highlands at the break of day
[15:43.34]Over the hills and far away
[15:50.55]There’s a way to get there and I’ll figure it out somehow
[16:04.85]But I’m already there in my mind
[16:10.76]And that’s good enough for now