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 dockyards

(Where) the only men working (are on the) 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 (realise) {see that} we've got to let go?

Hey there lassie, internal exile

When will you realise (we've) {you've} got to let go?



Starlings wheeling round Georgian spires

And the fires of Grangemouth burn the skies

A lion sleeps in a tenement close

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



Hey there laddie, internal exile

When will you (realise) {see that} we've got to let go?

Hey there lassie, internal exile

When will you realise (we've) {you've} got to let go?



+ {We've got to go now}

+ {Won't you please let us go now?}



+ They bury a 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 harbours are empty

+ The keels now rot on our oil slicked shores

+ The sheep are gone, the farms deserted

+ (We're) {It's} out of sight and we're out of mind



+ Hey there laddie, internal exile

+ When will you (realise) {see that} we've got to let go?

+ Hey there lassie, internal exile

+ When will you realise (we've) {you've} 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

(But) wherever we go we'll always know

That the land we stand on is never our own



Hey there laddie, internal exile

When will you (realise) {see that} we've got to let go?

Hey there lassie, internal exile

When will you realise (we've) {you've} got to let go?



{We're internal exiles}

{We've got to, got to let go}

{We're internal exiles}

{As if we've got to let go}

{We've got to let go}

{We've got to go now}

{Won't you please let us go now?}

{Internal exile}

{Internal exile}

{Won't you please let us go now?}





+ These lines are omitted from the 7" and karaoke edits