Internal Exile-Oldfish

[00:12.38]I saw a blue umbrella in Princes Street Gardens [00:15.84]Heading out west for the Lothian Road [00:18.92]An evening news stuffed deep in his pocket [00:21.98]Wrapped up in his problems to keep away the cold [00:25.22]Grierson's spirit haunts the dockyards [00:28.27]Where the only men working are on documentary crews [00:31.77]Shooting film as the lines get longer [00:34.31]As the seams run out as the oil runs dry [00:37.54]Hey there laddie internal exile [00:41.02]When will you realise we've got to let go [00:43.51]Hey there lassie internal exile [00:47.21]When will you realise we've got to let go [00:49.43] [00:55.99](Got a go) [00:56.43] [01:02.56]Starlings wheeling round Georgian spires [01:05.51]And the fires of Grangemouth burn the skies [01:08.60]A lion sleeps in a tenement close [01:11.57]In a country that's tired and deaf to his roar [01:14.94]Hey there laddie internal exile [01:18.36]When will you realise we've got to let go [01:20.95]Hey there lassie internal exile [01:24.62]When will you realise we've got to let go [01:30.48]We've got to let go [01:33.23]Realise we've got to let go got go now [01:37.62] [01:46.21]They bury a wasteland deep in the wilderness [01:49.12]Poison the soil and reap the harvest [01:51.92]Of blind indifference greed and apathy [01:55.38]Sowed way back in our history [01:58.50]The fish are few the harbours empty [02:01.64]The keels now rot on our oil slicked shores [02:04.73]The sheep are gone the farms deserted [02:07.93]We're out of sight and we're out of mind [02:10.93]Hey there laddie internal exile [02:14.25]When will you realise we've got to let go [02:17.15]Hey there lassie internal exile [02:20.60]When will you realise we've got to let go [02:26.11]Realise we've got to let go [02:30.58]Time to go time to go [02:35.56]Like our fathers before us we've eyes for America [02:39.00]Dream of a new life on foreign shores [02:42.07]But wherever we go we'll always know [02:45.01]That the land we stand on is never our own [02:48.29]Hey there laddie internal exile [02:51.53]When will you realise we've got to let go [02:54.31]Hey there lassie internal exile [02:57.81]When will you realise we've got to go [03:03.25]Oh internal exile since we've got to go [03:09.07]Internal exile we've got to go [03:15.32]Internal exile since we've got to go [03:22.14]We've got to go got to go [03:27.83]Internal exile [03:31.16]Internal exile [03:34.14]Internal exile we are [03:37.57]