Letter From America (1987)

When you go will you send back

A letter from America?

Take a look up the railtrack

From Miami to Canada (well)

Broke off from my work the other day

Spent the evening thinking about all the blood that flowed away

Across the ocean to the second chance

I wonder how it got on when it reached the promised land?

When you go will you send back

A letter from America?

Take a look up the railtrack

From Miami to Canada

I've looked at the ocean, tried hard to imagine

The way you felt the day you sailed

From Wester Ross to Nova Scotia

We should have held you, we should have told you

But you know our sense of timing

We always wait too long

When you go will you send back

A letter from America?

Take a look up the railtrack

From Miami to Canada

Lochaber no more, Sutherland no more

Lewis no more, Skye no more

Lochaber no more, Sutherland no more

Lewis no more, Skye no more

Lochaber no more, Sutherland no more

Lewis no more, Skye no more

I wonder, my blood, will you ever return

To help us kick the life back to a dying mutual friend?

'Cause do we not love her? I think we all claim we love her

Do we have to roam the world to prove how much it hurts?

When you go will you send back

A letter from America?

Take a look up the railtrack

From Miami to Canada

Bathgate no more, Linwood no more

Methil no more, Irvine no more

Bathgate no more, Linwood no more

Methil no more, Irvine no more

Bathgate no more, Linwood no more

Methil no more, Irvine no more

Bathgate no more, Linwood no more

Methil no more, Lochaber no more