Internal Exile Lyrics - Singles - Fish

I saw a blue umbrella in Princes Street Gardens 

Heading out west for the Lothian Road 

An Evening News stuffed deep in his pocket 

Wrapped up in his problems to keep away the cold 

Grierson's spirit haunts the dockyard 

The only men working, documentary crews 

Shooting film as the lines get longer 

As the seams run out, as the oil runs dry 

Hey there, laddie, internal exile 

When will you see that we got to let go? 

Hey there, lassie, internal exile 

When will you realize we got to let go? 

Starlings wheeling, Georgian spires 

And the fires of Grangemouth burn the skies 

A lion sleeps in a tenement close 

In a country that's tired and deaf to his roar 

Hey there, laddie, internal exile 

When will you see that we got to let go? 

Hey there, lassie, internal exile 

When will you realize we got to let go? 

We got to go now 

Oh, would you please let us go now? 

They bury the wasteland deep in the wilderness 

Poison the soil and reap the harvest 

Of blind indifference, greed and apathy 

Sowed way back in our history 

The fish are few and the harbors are empty 

The keels now rot on our oil slicked shores 

The sheep are gone, the farms deserted 

It sounds out of sight and we're out of mind 

Hey there, laddie, internal exile 

When will you see that we got to let go? 

Hey there, lassie, internal exile 

When will you realize we got to let go? 

We're gonna go now 

We're gonna go now 

Like our fathers before us we've eyes for America 

Dream of a new life on foreign shores 

Wherever we go we will always know 

That the land we stand on is never our own 

Hey there, laddie, internal exile 

When will you see that we got to let go? 

Hey there, lassie, internal exile 

When will you realize we got to let go? 

We're internal exile, we got to, got to let go 

We're internal exile, we simply got to let go 

Got to let go 

We got to go now 

Would you please let us go now? 

Internal exile, internal exile 

Would you please let us go?