well my hearts in the highlands gentle and fair honeysuckle bloomin in the wildwood air bluebells blazin where the aberdeen waters flow well my hearts in the highlands im gonna go there when i feel good enough to go windows was 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 same ol rat race life in the same ol cage i dont want nothin from anyone aint that much to take wouldnt know the difference between a real blonde and a fake feel like a prisoner in a world of mystery i wish someone would come and push back the clock for me well my hearts in the highlands wherever i roam thats where ill be when i get called home the wind it whispers to the buckeyed trees in rhyme well my hearts in the highlands i can only get there one step at a time im listenin to neil young i gotta turn up the sound someones always yellin turn it down feel like im drifting drifting from scene to scene im wondering what in the devil could it all possibly mean insanity is smashin 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  my hearts 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 well my hearts in the highlands only place left to go im in boston town in some restaurant i got no idea what i want or maybe i do but im just really not sure waitress comes over nobody in the place but me and her well it must be a holiday theres nobody around she studies me closely as i sit down she got a pretty face and long white shiny legs i said tell me what i want she say you probably want hard boiled eggs i say 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 youre an artist draw a picture of me i said i would if i could but i dont do sketches from memory well she says im right here in front of you or havent you looked i say all right i know but i dont have my drawing book she gives me a napkin she say you can do it on that i say yes i could but i dont know where my pencil is at she pulls one out from behind her ear she says all right now go ahead draw me im standing right here i make a few lines and i show it for her to see well she takes the napkin and throws it back and says that dont look a thing like me i said oh kind miss it most certainly does she says you must be jokin i say i wish i was then she says you dont read women authors do you at least thats what i think i hear her say well i say how would you know and what would it matter anyway well she says you just dont seem like you do i said youre 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 up out of my chair i step outside back to the busy street but nobodys going anywhere well my hearts 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 my hearts in the highlands cant see any other way to go every day is the same thing out the door feel further away than ever before some things in life it gets too late to learn well im lost somewhere i must have made a few bad turns i see people in the park forgetting their troubles and woes theyre drinking and dancing wearing bright colored clothes all the young men with their young women looking so good well id trade places with any of them in a minute if i could im 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 somebody just asked me if i registered to vote the sun is beginning to shine on me but its not like the sun that used to be the partys over and theres less and less to say i got new eyes everything looks far away well my hearts in the highlands at the break of day over the hills and far away theres a way to get there and ill figure it out somehow but im already there in my mind and thats good enough for now3