In the late hours of a sunset rendezvous ---
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chill breeze against tide, that carries me from you.
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Got a job in a southern city --- got some lead-free in my tank.
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Now I must whisper goodbye --- I'm bound for the mainland.
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Island in the city, Cut by a cold sea.
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People moving on an ocean. Groundswell of humanity.
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Now the sum breaks through rain as I climb Glen Shiel
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on the trail of those old cattlemen who drove their bargain south again.
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And in the eyes of those five sisters of Kintail
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there's a wink of seduction from the mainland.
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Island in the city. Cut by a cold sea.
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People moving on an ocean. Groundswell of humanity.
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Storm-lashed on the high-rise --- their words are spray to the wind.
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Blown like silent laughter. Falling on ears of tin.
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Take my heart and take my brawn.
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Take by stealth or take by storm ---
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set my brain to cruise.
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I can see the glow of the suburb lights.
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I'm fresh from the out-world ---
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singing the mainland blues.
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There was a girl where I came from.
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Seems a long time, long time gone by.
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Wears the west wind in her hair.
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She calls from the hill --- yeah, she calls
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in my mainland blues.
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There's a coast road that winds to heaven's door
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where a fat ferry floats on muted diesel roar.
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And there's a light on the hillside --- and there's a flame in her
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eyes, but how cold the lights burn on the mainland.
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Island in the city. Cut by a cold sea.
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People moving on an ocean. Groundswell of humanity.
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Storm-lashed on the high-rise --- their words are spray to the wind.
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Blown like silent laughter. Falling on ears of tin
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in my mainland blues.
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Ears Of Tin
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Jethro Tull |