Queen of the Highlands

Hear me as I lay my cards on the ground

Oh, the life and the love I have wasted so far

Stone coloured eyes are a hardy disguise

Oh, I breathe and I move but I am not alive

Oh so sweet, oh, what a crime

You knocked me out

You are a light

Let me be clear you can always mistake

My actions for love like some easy betrayal

7 AM in the airport that day

I was running from someone but I couldn't say

I lost time, time after time

It's all the same

You went away

But the queen of the highlands

She has gone home

And I'm laughing thinking why I ever let go

The queen of the highlands, she was my home

So I go back

Back to my island

Took all my pride and I got on that plane

No one will believe me, I hate them the same

I have done things, I've been there, you can't know

Oh, the great open ocean, your prison of hope

Take it from me, I had it all

I threw it away

They didn't take it

I've had enough, thought it was less than I deserve

I couldn't take it

Hear me as I lay my drink on the bar

I could tell you a story but it won't go far

I lost the love of my life but who cares?

Oh, you'll know never 'cause you've never been there