 Genius Lyrics
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Mark Knopfler – What It Is
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[Verse 1] / Drinking dens are spilling out / There's staggering in the square / There's lads and lasses falling about / And a crackling in the air / Down around the dungeon doors
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Mark Knopfler – Boom, Like That
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Mark Knopfler’s reflection on McDonald’s magnate Ray Kroc’s famous business acumen and infamous business tactics.
McDonald’s was a family business before Kroc came along and
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Mark Knopfler – Seattle
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[Verse 1] / Above the bar, the TVs are showing the game / But we're not watching it, we're hardly focussing / Through the windows in the fading day / 1st Avenue is turning grey / [
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Mark Knopfler – All That Matters
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[Verse 1] / My darling girl, my darling girl / You're all that matters in this wicked world / All that matters / All that matters / My darling boy, my darling boy / All of my
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Mark Knopfler (Ft. James Taylor) – Sailing to Philadelphia
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“Sailing to Philadelphia” by Mark Knopfler appears on his album of the same name (2000).
This is a story song, told in two monologues between Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon as
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Mark Knopfler – Redbud Tree
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[Verse 1] / Hunted down, I came upon / A place of ferns and grass / Gathered to a redbud tree / And now their footsteps pass / Where I crouch in dread / Discovery my certain death
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Mark Knopfler – Cannibals
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[Verse 1] / Well, he's daddy's little boy, he plays with his toys / He holds on to his daddy's hand / His daddy says "Sonny you're a big, strong boy / You're gonna be a big, strong
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Mark Knopfler – Basil
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“Basil” is a song about Mark Knopfler’s summer job working for the Evening Chronicle newspaper in Newcastle, where he meet the poet Basil Bunting, who was also working for the
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Mark Knopfler – Privateering
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This is a song of the sea, and a tribute to the independent spirit of the privateer, the person who provided his ship and crew to the Crown in times of war. The ship was also known
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Mark Knopfler – Monteleone
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It’s not often you hear a song about a guitar.
Luthier John Monteleone has built several guitars for Knopfler, the last one being an acoustic archtop in 2008. Knopfler was so
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Mark Knopfler – Home Boy
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[Verse 1] / Home boy / Not exactly on a roll, here / Just growing old, here / Home boy / [Verse 2] / Home boy / You've not been catching many waves here / Not been catching many
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Mark Knopfler – Sucker Row
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[Verse 1] / Somebody's gotta crack a whip around here / Who's mindin' the store? / Shake it up, sell some beer / What's your money maker for? / Pay day we're packin' 'em in / Six
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Mark Knopfler – Why Aye Man
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The recession in England was one of the great failures of the 80s. High rates of unemployment caused riots in inner cities during the summer of 1981.
– It got so bad, many left
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Mark Knopfler – Quality Shoe
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[Verse 1] / You got your toecaps reinforced with steel / Hard-wearing sole and heel / Make those tired feet feel like new / Take your pick, black or brown / Great for the country
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Mark Knopfler – Your Perfect Song
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[Verse 1] / Ever certain, ever strong / Your song, the perfect song / Like a bright star shining on / Your perfect song / [Verse 2] / Never waivers, never wrong / Your song, the
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Mark Knopfler – Get Lucky
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[Verse 1] / I'm better with my muscles / Than I am with my mouth / I'll work the fairgrounds in the summer / Or go pick fruit down south / And when I feel them chilly winds / Where
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Mark Knopfler – River Towns
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“River Towns” is inspired by the short story “A Room Forever” by the late American writer Breece D'J Pancake, who published only a few works before his suicide in 1979 at the age
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Mark Knopfler – Our Shangri-La
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[Verse 1] / It's the end of a perfect day / For all surfer boys and girls / The sun's dropping down in the bay / And fallin' off the world / [Chorus] / There's a diamond in the sky
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Mark Knopfler – Stand Up Guy
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[Verse 1] / Brew the coffee in a bucket / Double straight man and banjo / If you don't got the snake oil / Buster, you don't got a show / Who puts the do-re-mi in our pockets
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Mark Knopfler – Occupation Blues
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[Verse 1] / I can get you what you want at the market / As long as you have the price / The colonel is the Governor / He steals from his own supply / The jailhouse is full of small
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Mark Knopfler (Ft. Van Morrison) – The Last Laugh
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[Verse 1: Mark Knopfler] / Don't you love the sound / Of the last laugh, my friend / Don't you love the sound / Of the last laugh, at the end / [Pre-Chorus: Mark Knopfler] / Down
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Mark Knopfler – Rüdiger
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[Verse 1] / Rüdiger stands in the rain and the snow / Collector of autographs / Names upon photographs / Faces of people who everyone knows / [Verse 2] / Rüdiger lives in a place
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Mark Knopfler – El Macho
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[Verse 1] / Your date has gone home / Now you're left on your own sweet own / You're a tough-talking friend / Split on you in the bitter end / And you look like a fine thing, Jerry
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Mark Knopfler – Brothers In Arms
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These mist covered mountains / Are a home now for me / But my home is the lowlands / And always will be / Some day you'll return to / Your valleys and your farms / And you'll no
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Mark Knopfler – Border Reiver
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[Verse 1] / Southern bound from Glasgow town / She's shining in the sun / My Scotstoun lassie / On the border run / We're whistling down the hillsides / And tearing up the climbs
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Mark Knopfler – Devil Baby
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[Verse 1] / The freaks'll stay together / They're a tight old crew / You look at them / And they look at you / I love the ballyhoo girl / But she don't care / It's hard to find
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Mark Knopfler – Marbletown
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“Marbletown” by Mark Knopfler appears on his 2002 album, *The Ragpicker’s Dream".
This whole song is a double entendre, comparing the isolation of death to the life of a
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Mark Knopfler – 5:15 AM
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“5:15 A.M.” is the first track on Knopfler’s solo album Shangri-La.
The song tells the story of the 1967 “One-Armed Bandit Murder” in North East England, where Knopfler grew up
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Mark Knopfler – Matchstick Man
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So there he was then, Penzance to play / Christmas Eve in a nowhere band / Now early morning Christmas Day / He’s hitching home to Geordieland / Last night the snow came, just my
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Mark Knopfler – Heavy Up
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Your slack-jawed dimness is our loss / Condemns us to your point of view / Who could give a flying toss / What you like to chill out to? / And why should I lighten up for you / If
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Mark Knopfler – Beryl
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[Verse 1] / Beryl was on another level / When she got her Booker medal / She was dead in her grave / After all she gave / After all she gave / Beryl / Every time they'd overlook
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Mark Knopfler – Hot Dog
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I'm coming off your cooking / I'm coming off my food / I'm staring down this hot dog / And I'm in a fighting mood / Hot dog, it's either your or me / I guess the hot dog blues
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Mark Knopfler – Bluebird
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[Verse 1] / Got crows in my pasture / Rats in my barn / Crows in my pasture, babe / Rats in my barn / If I was you, little bluebird / I'd up and find another farm / [Verse 2] / I'
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Mark Knopfler – The Ragpicker's Dream
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“Ragpicker’s Dream” by Mark Knopfler appears on his 2002 album of the same name.
This is a story song and a tender dream from a couple of old hobos who know how to keep
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Mark Knopfler – Skydiver
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[Verse 1] / I’ve been banned from every racecourse in the country / There’s something about the unsure thing / Like scoring with a beauty of the county / It always makes the old
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Mark Knopfler – The Car Was the One
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[Verse 1] / In summer '63 I was staying alive / Hanging at the races, hoping to drive / When they were done with the weekend and loading the cars / I couldn't get a pass so I went
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Mark Knopfler – Gator Blood
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[Verse 1] / Hammer on a skillet, up they come / Showman whanging on a ballyhoo drum / Watch out, people, I'm a greedy man / Swallowed all the fishes in the frying pan / [Chorus
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Mark Knopfler (Ft. Ruth Moody) – Wherever I Go
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[Verse 1: Mark Knopfler] / Maybe I’m bound to wander / From one place to the next / Heaven knows why / But in the wild blue yonder / Your star is fixed in my sky / [Verse 2: Ruth
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Mark Knopfler – Precious Voice From Heaven
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[Intro] / Remember your skinny young folk's nerves / With his guitar and his greasy cap / Do you still want your ageing hipster / With his records and his trilby hat / [Verse
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Mark Knopfler – Postcards from Paraguay
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[Verse 1] / One thing was leading to the next / I bit off more than I could chew / I had the power to sign the cheques / It wasn't difficult to do / [Chorus] / I couldn't stay and
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Mark Knopfler – Radio City Serenade
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[Verse 1] / You've got to have no credit cards / To know how good it feels / The howling of the bridges / The sidewalks bound with steel / Sitting on the sidewalk / With a party to
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Mark Knopfler – Wanderlust
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[Verse 1] / Big black cloud / On a yellow plane / Sure enough it / Looks like rain / Packin' up all our / Faith and trust / Me and the wanderlust / [Verse 2] / Open window / Empty
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Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris – Beachcombing
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Though All the Roadrunning and “Beachcombing” were released while the Indian Ocean tsunami (2004) and Hurricane Katrina (2005) were still on the forefront of public consciousness
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