I’ve been singing exile songs for many years and have always felt extremely fortunate that I live in the country that I love and don’t need to sing about missing it, so put my feelings into this song.
I don’t need to sing the song of the exile, of a land that I miss far away
And I don’t fill my mind with deep longings, for I did not stray
I will spend all my life in my homeland, and live out my dreams every day
For this humble country has wooed me, it made me stay.
I don’t need to travel and see lots of things, to make an impression on me
The Canadian Rockies, Niagara Falls, or the Statue of Liberty
Or swim with the dolphins and watch killer whales, in waters of clear crystal blue
Or take a short stroll along China’s great wall, though all are great beauties it’s true
For I’m in love with Scotland, it’s pulled on my heartstrings you see
Yes I’m in love with Scotland, and I know, Scotland’s in love with me
I just need the mountains the deer and the glen, the heather, a Scot’s bluebell wood
The passionate moans of a windswept Glencoe and a mist-shrouded wild Rannoch Moor
Or bathe in the sunrise that lights up the dew, like diamonds so perfect and still
A part of my soul keeps on begging for more, it’s a void only you can fill.
For I’m in love with Scotland, it’s pulled on my heartstrings you see
Yes I’m in love with Scotland, and I know, Scotland’s in love with me
