 Genius Meanings
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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 – Your Latest Trick (Live)
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All the late night bargains have been struck / Between the satin beaus and their belles / Prehistoric garbage trucks / Got the city to themselves / Echoes and whores, dinosaurs
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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 – On Every Street
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[Verse] / There's gotta be a record of you someplace / You gotta be on somebody's books / The lowdown a picture of your face / Your injured looks / The sacred and profane / The
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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 – Iron Hand
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This song was inspired by the attack on the striking miners –as a part of the UK Miners' strike in the 1980's– by the South Yorkshire police, popularly known as the Battle of
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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 – 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 – 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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Dire Straits – Heavy Fuel
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[Verse 1] / Last time I was sober, man I felt bad / Worst hangover that I ever had / It took six hamburgers and scotch all night / Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right / [
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Dire Straits – You and Your Friend
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[Instrumental intro 0:00-1:03] / [Chorus] / Will you and your friend come around / Are you and your friend gonna get on down / Will you and your friend come around / Or are you and
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Dire Straits – Ticket to Heaven
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‘Ticket To Heaven’ is a song about televangelists who manipulate poor, less educated people with God as the selling point.
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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 – Twisting by the Pool
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[Verse 1] / We're going on a holiday now / Going to take a villa, a small chalet / Costa del Magnifico / Yo, cost of living is so low / [Pre-Chorus 1] / Yeah(yeah), going to be so
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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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Bruce Springsteen – I’m on Fire
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“I’m On Fire” was the fourth of seven singles from Born In The USA that reached the top 10 in the US. Overseas it reached the top 20 in eight countries including a #5 peak in the
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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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Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus
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“Personal Jesus” is the first single and third track on Depeche Mode’s seventh and most successful album Violator. It peaked at #28 in the US in March 1990. It also reached the top
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Dire Straits – When It Comes to You
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[Verse 1] / If we can't get along we oughta be apart / And I'm wondering where'd you get that cold, cold heart / Set me free - sign my release / I'm tired of being the villain of
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Rolling Stone – The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2012)
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This list was published online on May 31, 2012. It is a followup to the 2003 list of the same name.
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Dire Straits – Planet of New Orleans
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[Instrumental intro 0:00-1:32] / [Verse 1] / Standin' on the corner / Of Toulouse and Dauphin / Waitin' on Marie Ondine / I'm tryin' to place a tune / Under a Louisiana moonbeam
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The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
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Jack White uses an effects pedal to make his guitar sound like a bass and howls about a rage so intense, he could take on an army all by himself. Result: the greatest riff of the
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Dire Straits – Money for Nothing (Single Edit)
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[Intro] / I want my MTV / [Verse 1] / Now look at them yo-yos, that's the way you do it / You play the guitar on the MTV / That ain't working, that's the way you do it / Money for
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Ben E. King – Stand By Me
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Released in 1961, this song was inspired by the spiritual hymn “Lord Stand By Me”. It has since been recorded into more than 400 other versions.
It was ranked the 122nd out of
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Paul Young – Everytime You Go Away
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“Every Time You Go Away” was originally written and recorded in 1980 by Hall & Oates as “a kind of gospel/soul song”. Paul Young’s cover of the song went to #1 in the US (Hot 100
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Mark Knopfler – Money for Nothing (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)
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I want my, I want my MTV / I want my, I want my MTV / I want my, I want my MTV / I want my, I want my MTV / Now look at them yo-yo's, that's the way you do it / You play the guitar
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Mark Knopfler – Romeo and Juliet (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)
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A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade / Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made / Finds a streetlight steps out of the shade / Says something like you and me
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Rolling Stone – The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2020)
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1 | Marvin Gaye | What's Going On | 1971 / 2 | The Beach Boys | Pet Sounds | 1966 / 3 | Joni Mitchell | Blue | 1971 / 4 | Stevie Wonder | Songs in the Key of Life | 1976 / 5 | The
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Dire Straits – Millionaire Blues
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I woke up this morning, my Jacuzzi wouldn't work / Then the butler quit on me, man, can you believe it? Jerk! / Must've been my artistic temperament he couldn't take / How come
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Dire Straits – Local Hero/Wild Theme (Live)
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[Instrumental]
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