(The Highlands--)

maybe i'm a witch
lost in time
running through the fields
of scotland by your side

kicked out of france
but i still believe
taken to a land
far across the sea

CHORUS
etienne
etienne
hear the west wind
whisper my name
etienne
etienne
by the morning
maybe i'll remember
who i am

maybe you're the knight
who saved my life
maybe we faced
the fire side by side

here we are again
under the same sky
as the gypsy crystal
slowly dies

CHORUS
etienne
etienne
hear the west wind
whisper my name
etienne
etienne
by the morning
maybe we'll remember
who i am

i close my eyes
see you again
i know i've held you
but i can't remember
where or when

REPEAT SECOND CHORUS

(The Skyeboat Song--)



I: I remember when Y Kant Tori Read came out in 1988, and how much I liked Etienne Trilogy, - and how I thought, especially being the last cut, that it was different than the other songs on the album. Was that more of what you were wanting to do?
T: Not necessarily, it was more just me at the piano.
I: Which is what you've really done since, though.
T: But you can't compare Precious Things and Waitress and Cruel to Etienne Trilogy, you know what I mean? Or obviously I wouldn't have made the four records I just made (laughs). There is a bit of the balladeer in me, and that comes across on all the records also, but the records aren't just ballad records as you well know. But I do think that Etienne, as a song, was more of what I was doing before I came to L.A.
-- Tori; The Performing Songwriter Magazine, Sept/Oct '98