Not Lie Down

Music and Lyrics by Dougie MacLean
Published by Limetree Arts and Music (MCPS and PRS UK)

Speak your mind she said, but there are words best left alone
Try to be kind she said, for there's no grace in doing wrong
When you're standing on your highest hill
And you shout but no-one hears

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You can fall but you must not lie down
You can fall but you must not lie down
And though you're lost in the deep of the fiddle's sweet sound
You can fall but you must not lie down

Pull in your tired wings for there's no need to know it all
Listen how the silence sings now is the time for standing tall
When you're standing on your highest hill
And you shout but no-one hears

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Dream on little one there are flowers in your hair
And see what the time has done scattered diamonds everywhere
When you're standing on your highest hill
And you shout but no-one hears

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