[Verse] Oh The heather sways in the morning dew With skies so wide A heart once knew A ship set sail on the cold gray tide And love was lost where the deep waves hide [Chorus] Oh Highlands Sing your mournful tune Under the watch of the waning moon The sea it took what it won’t return And left my heart in the tides to burn [Verse] The cliffs stand still They’ve seen it all The cries that echoed The sailor’s call A promise made on the harbor’s stone Now whispers haunt where I walk alone [Chorus] Oh Highlands Sing your mournful tune Under the watch of the waning moon The sea it took what it won’t return And left my heart in the tides to burn [Bridge] The gulls still circle The winds still wail The ghost of a mast in the storm’s own tale Each wave that breaks is a memory’s breath A love now bound to the sea’s cold death [Verse] I wait by the loch where the pines still grow Where he once promised to never go But the sea’s dark hunger It claimed him whole And now I wander with half a soul
