Saw a girl on the street from my home   Like a fire on the hillside she shown   And I knew right then that my best days were gone   And I'd been, been in the lowlands too long      Oh I've been in the lowlands too long   Oh, I know, I know that I should go   And 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   And 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   And 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   And I've been in the lowlands too long      I can sing out at all sing a song   I can do nothing all the day long   But I can't do right and I know I'm wrong   And 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   And I've been in the lowlands too long