Genius Lyrics
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Dire Straits – The Man's Too Strong
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[Verse 1] / I am just an aging drummer boy / And in the wars I used to play / And I've called a tune / To many a torture session / Now they say I am a war criminal / And I'm fading
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Dire Straits – Industrial Disease
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This is the third track on Dire Straits' 1982 album “Love Over Gold.” This is also the first song on the vinyl album’s B-side. It’s storytelling format closely resembles that of
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Dire Straits – Your Latest Trick
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The fourth track on Brothers in Arms and a turning point for the album. The songs up to this point are poppy and this song ushers in a much more gritty phase of the album.
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Dire Straits – Ride Across the River
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‘Ride Across the River’ is the sixth track of Dire Straits fifth studio album ‘Brothers in Arms’. The song can be interoperated as a cynical view on war as seen from a soldier. Not
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Dire Straits – So Far Away
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[Verse 1] / Here I am again in this mean old town / And you're so far away from me / And where are you when the sun go down? / You're so far away from me / [Chorus] / You're so far
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Dire Straits – It Never Rains
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[Verse 1] / I hear the Seven Deadly Sins / And the Terrible Twins came to call on you / The bigger they are, baby / The harder they fall on you / And you, you're always the same
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Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms
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This song was released in 1985 as the closer to the album of the same name and is the third single from it, reaching #16 in the UK that October. It did not chart in the US.
The
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Dire Straits – Why Worry?
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Why Worry? is the fifth track of Dire Straits‘ fifth studio album “Brothers in Arms”.
The track fits the style of The Everly Brothers, which later on recorded a cover of the song.
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Dire Straits – One World
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[Verse 1] / Can't get no sleeves for my records / Can't get no laces for my shoes / Can't get no fancy notes / On my blue guitar / I can’t get no antidote for blues / Oh yeah, uh
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Dire Straits – Walk of Life
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Oddly, this track was originally available as a B-Side to the single “So Far Away,” which was released as the lead single to their fifth album Brothers In Arms. The song received a
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Dire Straits – Money for Nothing
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The most successful Dire Straits single, “Money for Nothing” is inspired by Mark Knopfler listening to a man complaining about the musicians that emerged in the 1980s.
The song
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Manfred Mann's Earth Band – Blinded by the Light
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The song was one of the early ones written by Bruce Springsteen in 1973 for his first album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J..
It was then recorded by the Manfred Mann Earth Band
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Paul McCartney – Simple As That
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[Verse 1] / I know it isn't easy to refuse / A lot of thoughts are flying through your head / Tell me this before you have to choose / Would you rather be alive or dead? / [Chorus
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Charles Dickens – Great Expectations (Chap. 53)
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It was a dark night, though the full moon rose as I left the enclosed lands, and passed out upon the marshes. Beyond their dark line there was a ribbon of clear sky, hardly broad
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Ringo Starr – You Know It Makes Sense
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Hello, Ringo here / It's a long time since we had the Beatles / It's a long time since we had yellow submarines / Though I suppose we still have got plenty of blue meanies / In
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Genius Brasil Traduções – Dire Straits - So Far Away (Tradução em Português)
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[Verso 1] / Aqui estou eu nesta velha cidade cruel / E você está tão longe de mim / E onde você está quando o sol se põe? / Você está tão longe de mim / [Refrão] / Você está tão
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William Shakespeare – The Rape of Lucrece
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Shakespeare’s epic poem is taken from Roman mythology, with the story having been related by numerous sources, including Livy’s The Rape of Lucretia, about how the Roman republic
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Feargal Sharkey – Never never - live
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I know just what to say / It's just a game I play / Now I'm here on my own / I'd like to be with you / I guess you always knew / Still I'm all alone / I know the story / But it all
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The Cars – Drive
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“Drive” is The Cars' third single from the band’s Heartbeat City album. It was written by Ric Ocasek and sung by bassist Benjamin Orr. It is the band’s greatest international hit.
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Lord Byron – Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto 2)
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Canto the Second / I. / Come, blue-eyed maid of heaven!—but thou, alas, / Didst never yet one mortal song inspire— / Goddess of Wisdom! here thy temple was, / And is, despite of
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