Genius Lyrics
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Dire Straits – Once Upon a Time in the West
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[Verse 1] / Some people get a cheap laugh / Breaking up the speed limit / Scaring the pedestrians for a minute / Crossing up progress driving on the grass / Leaving just enough for
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Dire Straits – Once Upon a Time in the West [Alchemy]
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Some people get a cheap laugh breaking up the speed limit / Scaring the pedestrians for a minute / Crossing up progress driving on the grass / Leaving just enough for room to pass
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Dire Straits – Private Investigations [Alchemy]
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Its a mystery to me / The game commences / For the usual fee / Plus expenses / Confidential information / Its in a diary / This is my investigation / Its not a public inquiry / I
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Dire Straits – Solid Rock [Alchemy]
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Well now take a look at that / I made a castle in the sand / Saying this is where it's at you / Couldn't understand now / If I realised that the chances were slim / How come I'm so
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Dire Straits – Two Young Lovers Intro: The Carousel Waltz [Alchemy]
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It was the last day of summer / It was the first of a new romance / He walked into her on the corner / She said, 'I don't dance' / He said, 'Baby let me teach you' / She said, 'O.K
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Dire Straits – Love Over Gold [Alchemy]
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You walk out on the high wire / You're a dancer on thin ice / You pay no heed to the danger / And less to advice / Your footsteps are forbidden / But with knowledge of your sin
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Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing [Alchemy]
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You get a shiver in the dark / It's raining in the park but meantime / South of the river you stop and you hold everything / A band is blowing Dixie double four time / You feel
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Dire Straits – Follow Me Home
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[Instrumental intro 0:00-1:48] / [Verse 1] / Oh well the sun go down / Celebration in the town tonight / All day long / They been slaughtering upon the stone / Share out the meat
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Dire Straits – Expresso Love [Alchemy]
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One two one two three four / She gets the sun in the daytime / Perfume in the dusk / And she come out in the night time / With the honeysuckle musk / Because she smells like a rose
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Dire Straits – Angel of Mercy
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[Verse 1] / Well there's a Peter Pan moon, shepherd's delight / I got the dragon at noon, yes and I won the fight / Now I want my reward in heaven tonight, just like you promised
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Dire Straits – Portobello Belle
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[Verse 1] / Bella donna's on the high street / Her breasts upon the off beat / And the stalls are just the side shows / Victoriana's old clothes / And yes, her jeans are tight now
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Dire Straits – Tunnel of Love [Alchemy]
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[Intro: "The Carousel Waltz," by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein] / [Verse 1] / Getting crazy on the waltzers, but it's the life that I choose / Sing about the six-blade
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Dire Straits – Romeo and Juliet [Alchemy]
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A lovestruck Romeo, sings the streetside serenade / Laying everybody low with a love song that he made / Finds a streetlight, steps out of the shade / Says something like, You and
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Dire Straits – Single Handed Sailor
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[Verse 1] / Two in the morning, dry-dock town / The rivers rolls away in the night / Little Gipsy Moth she's all tied down / She quiver in the wind and the light / Yeah, and a
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Dire Straits – Telegraph Road [Alchemy]
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A long time ago come a man on a track / Walkin' thirty miles with a sack on his back / And he put down his load where he thought it was the best / Made a home in the wilderness
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Dire Straits – Communiqué
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[Verse 1] / They want to get a statement for Jesus' sake / It's like a talking to the wall / He's incommunicado, no comment to make / He's saying nothing at all / [Pre-Chorus
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Dire Straits – Where Do You Think You're Going?
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[Chorus] / Where do you think you're going? / Don't you know it's dark outside? / Where do you think you're going? / Don't you care about my pride? / Where do you think you're
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Dire Straits – News
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[Chorus] / He sticks to his guns / He take the road as it comes / It take the shine off his shoes / He says it's a shame / "You know, it may be a game / Ah, but I won't play to
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