Highlands - Live in Newcastle, Australia - March 24, 2001

Well my heart's in the Highlands

Gentle and fair

Honeysuckle blooming in the wildwood air

Bluebells blazing where the Aberdeen waters flow

Well my heart's in the Highlands

I'm gonna go there when I feel good enough to go

Windows were shaking all night in my dreams

Everything is as exactly the way that it seems

Feel like a prisoner in a world of mystery

I wish someone would come and push back the clock for me

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 of rhyme

Well, my heart's in the Highlands

I can only get there one step at a time

I'm listening to Neil Young

I gotta turn up the sound

Someone's always yelling, "Turn it down"

Feel like I'm drifting, drifting from scene to scene

I'm wondering what in the devil could it all possibly mean

Insanity is smashing up against my soul

You could say I was on anything but a roll

If I had a conscience, well I just might blow my top

What would I do with it anyway, maybe take it to the pawn shop?

Well, 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

My heart's in the Highlands, only place left to go

I'm in Boston town in some restaurant

I got no idea what I want

Or maybe I do but I'm just really not sure

Waitress comes over, nobody's in the place but me and her

It must be a holiday, ain't nobody around

She studies me closely as I sit down

She got a pretty face and long white shiny legs

I said "Which's the best you got?"

She say "You probably like scrambled eggs"

I said, "Alright, bring me some"

She says "We ain't got any, you picked the wrong time to come"

Then she knows, she says, "You're an artist, I know you are, draw a picture of me"

I said, "I would if I could but I don't do sketches from memory"

Yes beauty, well then

Pulls a napkin out and she, pulls a napkin

I wish you a napkin

She says, "Well you can do it on that"

What if i could but I wear it behind me

Paints up his hand

She pulls one arm from behind her ear

Saying, "Draw me now, I'm still here

I make a few lines and I show it for her to see

She takes the 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 joking", I said, "I wish I was"

She says, "You don't read women authors do you?"

At least that's what I think I hear her say

I say, "How would you know, and what would it matter anyway?"

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 said, I've read Erica Jong"

She goes away for a minute, and I slide out, out of my chair

I head back to the busy street, but nobody's going anywhere

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 the snap of the bow

My heart's in the Highlands

There ain't no place left there that I don't wanna go

Every day is the same thing, give a peek out the door

Time to repair what went wrong you did before

Some things in life it gets too late to learn

Well I'm lost somewhere, I must have made a few bad turns

I see people in the park, forgetting their troubles and woes

They're drinking and dancing, and they're wearing bright colored clothes

All the young men with all the young women and they're looking so good

I'd trade places with any of them if I only possibly could

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

Someone just asked me if I'm registered to vote

Well, the sun is beginning to shine on me

But it ain't like the sun that used to be

The party's over and there's less and less to say

I got new eyes, everything looking far away

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

But I'm already there in my mind, that's gotta have to be good enough for now