Lowlands

by Gillian Welch

From the album: Soul Journey

Track 7 of 10 on Soul Journey (2003).

Duration: 3:19

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Lyrics for Lowlands

Saw a girl on the street from my home Like a flower on the hillside she shone And I knew right then that my best days were gone And I'd been in the lowlands too long Oh I've been in the lowlands too long Oh I know I know that I should go But I've been in the lowlands too long This is not how it was at the start There's a doubt and a blame in my heart And it's no one else no fault but my own That I've been in the lowlands too long Oh I've been in the lowlands too long Oh I know I know that I should go But I've been in the lowlands too long What is this weight in my mind And what is this new sense of time It's the open fields and the friends that are gone I've been in the lowlands too long I can sing out my thoughts in a song I can do nothing all the day long But I can't do right and I know why I'm wrong I've been in the lowlands too long Oh I've been in the lowlands too long Oh I know I know that I should go But I've been in the lowlands too long

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