 Genius Meanings
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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 – 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 – 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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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Lady Writer
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[Verse 1] / Lady writer on the TV / Talking about the Virgin Mary / Reminded me of you / Expectation left to come up to, yeah / Lady writer on the TV / Yeah, she had another
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Dire Straits – What’s the Matter, Baby?
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There's a shadow hanging over the valley / Total eclipse of the moon / Closing up the gates of the city / The wind, it plays a wild tune / Don't you put the lock on the window
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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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Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
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In this song, producer Brian Eno and Talking Heads frontman David Byrne are at the apogee of whatever it is they do (Byrne claims he was just riffing on some Southern preacher).
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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 – 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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Phil Collins – In the Air Tonight
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“In the Air Tonight” remains one of Phil Collins‘ best known hits. Its music video was directed by Stuart Orme and played on MTV shortly after the channel launched in 1981.
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Eagles – Hotel California
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One of the most mysterious and widely speculated songs in rock history, “Hotel California” is best described in the words of its creators. As Don Henley explained in the Daily Mail
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