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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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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 – Sultans of Swing
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“Sultans of Swing” by Mark Knopfler appears on the self-titled Dire Straits album – 1978. It’s a story song, told as a second person narrative about the London Jazz experience and
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Dire Straits – Skateaway
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[Verse 1] / I seen a girl on a one-way corridor / Stealing down a wrong-way street / For all the world like an urban toreador / She had wheels on, on her feet / Well, the cars do
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Dire Straits – Telegraph Road
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“Telegraph Road” is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits, taken from their fourth studio album Love Over Gold. It was released in 1984, as the lead single from their live
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Dire Straits – My Parties
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[Verse 1] / Well, this is my back yard - my back gate / I hate to start my parties late / Here's the party cart - ain't that great? / That ain't the best part baby - just wait
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Dire Straits – The Bug
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[Verse 1] / Well it's a strange old game - you learn it slow / One step forward and it's back to go / You're standing on the throttle, you're standing on the brakes / In the groove
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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 – 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 – Tunnel of Love
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At just over 8 minutes, “Tunnel of Love” seems like an odd choice for a single. Until you hear it that is. It’s quintessential Dire Straits, with Knopfler’s incredible, Bruce
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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 – Fade to Black
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[Verse 1] / Well I wonder where you are tonight / You're probably on the rampage somewhere / You have been known to take delight / In getting in somebody's hair / And you always
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Dire Straits – Private Investigations
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This is the second track on Dire Straits' 1982 album “Love Over Gold.”
It evokes the private detectives of classic film noir.
The song itself is mainly instrumental, with most
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Mark Knopfler – Song for Sonny Liston
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Lead guitarist, lead singer and songwriter for the Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler wrote and produced a song for the legendary boxer Sonny Liston, which was taken from his 2004 album
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Dire Straits – Kingdom Come
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I tell you what! / They don't mess with me, I'm a wild man, son / I got me my very own anti tank gun / I got a jack rabbit with it, guess he was a mean one / Yeah, I've always been
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Dire Straits – Calling Elvis
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[Chorus] / Calling Elvis - is anybody home / Calling Elvis - I'm here all alone / Did he leave the building / Or can he come to the phone / Calling Elvis - I'm here all alone / [
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Dire Straits – Wild West End
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This song is all about the lifestyle in the West End of London, a fashionable area of London also popular with tourists.
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Dire Straits – Six Blade Knife
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[Chorus] / Your six blade knife can do anything for you / Anything you want it to / One blade for breaking my heart / One blade for tearing me apart / Your six blade knife-do
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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 – How Long
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How long, how long baby / How long has it been / How long you gonna keep me wondering / How long before you see / Stallin' me was wrong / How long / How long, how long you gonna
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Dire Straits – Love Over Gold
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / 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
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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 – 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 – Down to the Waterline
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[Instrumental intro 0:00-1:07] / [Verse 1] / Sweet surrender on the Quayside / You remember we used to run and hide / In the shadow of the cargoes / I take you one at a time / And
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Dire Straits – Romeo and Juliet
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There is no more iconic Dire Straits song. Released as a single in 1981, the track updates the classic Romeo and Juliet narrative, skipping over the death and destruction. It’s
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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 – Lions
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[Verse 1] / Red sun going down, way over dirty town / Starlings they're sweeping around, crazy shoals / Yes and a girl is there, high heeling across the square / The wind, it blows
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Dire Straits – If I Had You
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[Chorus] / If I had you, the things that I could do / (Honey) If I had you / [Verse 1] / Now I could sing like an angel, fly just like a bird / Sing you the best love song you ever
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Dire Straits – I Think I Love You Too Much
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I'm not alone sitting right there / How come I get the feeling you'd vanish into the air / I love you more than anybody else, babe / Can't you tell I'm an easy touch / Baby, baby
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Dire Straits – Eastbound Train
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[Intro] / (Get it!) / [Verse 1] / It was at New Cross Station, I was going on home / Saw you get your ticket, standing on your own / Here come the train about-a 02:44 / I couldn't
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Dire Straits – In the Gallery
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[Verse 1] / Harry made a bareback rider proud and free upon a horse / And a fine coal miner, for the NCB that was / A fallen angel, Jesus on the cross / A skating ballerina, you
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Dire Straits – Water of Love
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A song about the pain of a failed relationship, and disguised as a beautiful love song.
– Saba with Glass of Red Wine by Fabian Perez
Knopfler said this was written out of pain
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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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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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Dire Straits – Hand in Hand
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[Chorus 1] / The sky is crying the streets are full of tears / Rain come down wash away my fears / And all this writing on the wall / Oh I can read between the lines / [Bridge
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Dire Straits – Me and My Friend
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Me and my band put the music on to dance / Don't know the time of the day / Oh, yeah, we'd be a pain in the neck / If we couldn't get down and - twist / 'Cause it depends upon a
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