Not Lie Down - Dougie MacLean

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

And when you’re standing on your highest hill

And you shout but no one hears

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

There’s no need to know it all

Listen how the silence sings

Now is the time for standing tall

And when you’re standing on your highest hill

And you shout but no one hears

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

Dream on, little one

There are flowers in your hair

And see what the time has done

Scattered diamonds everywhere

And when you’re standing on your highest hill

And you shout but no one hears

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