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Mark Knopfler Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More
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One of the most celebrated British guitar heroes to emerge in the late 1970s and '80s, Mark Knopfler first rose to fame as the leader of Dire Straits, where his ...
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Dire Straits Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More
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Led by guitarist/vocalist Mark Knopfler, the group built their sound upon the laid-back blues-rock of JJ Cale, but they also had jazz and country inflections.
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Mark Knopfler - What It Is Lyrics & Meanings
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What It Is Lyrics & Meanings: The 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 / The shelters and the queues / Everybody's looking for / Somebody's arms to fall into / And it's what it is / It's what it is now / / There's frost on the graves and the monuments / But the taverns are warm in town / People curse the government / And shovel hot food down / The lights are out in city hall / The castle and the keep / The moon shines down upon it all / The legless and asleep / / And it's cold on the tollgate / With the wagons creeping through / Cold on the tollgate / God knows what I could do with you / And it's what it is / It's what it is now / / The garrison sleeps in the citadel / With the ghosts and the ancient stones / High up on the parapet / A Scottish piper stands alone / And high on the wind / The highland drums begin to roll / And something from the past just comes / And stares into
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Mark Knopfler - Our Shangri-La Lyrics & Meanings
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Our Shangri-La Lyrics & Meanings: It's the end of a perfect day for all the surfer boys and girls / The suns dropping down in the bay and falling off the world / There's a diamond in the sky, our evening stone in our Shangri-La / / Get that fire burning strong right here and right now / Its here and then its gone, theres no secret anyhow. / We may never love again to the music of guitars in our Shangri-La / / Tonight your beauty burns into my memory / The wheel of heaven turns above us endlessly / This is all the heaven we got, right here where we are in our Shangri-La. / / Tonight your beauty burns into my memory / The wheel of heaven turns above us endlessly / This is all the heaven we got, right here where we are in our Shangri-La. / In our Shangri-La / In our Shangri-La
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Mark Knopfler - Everybody Pays Lyrics & Meanings
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Everybody Pays Lyrics & Meanings: I got shot off my horse / So what? I’m up again / And playing / In one of these / Big saloons on main / You can come up here / Take a look / Around these sinners’ dens / You’re only ever going to find / One or two real games / Nobody’s driving / Me underground / Not yet anyway / But either on the strip / Or on the edge of town / Everybody pays / Everybody pays to play / / Yeah, you ought to stay / Right where you are / In sawdust land / It’s probably the / Safest place to be / With your / Greasy little pork pies / And your shoestring hands / It makes / No difference to me / All those directions / Which we never took / To go our different ways / Who went and wrote / The oldest story in the book? / Everybody pays / Everybody pays to play / / Curl up inside / A boxcar dream / And disappear / With a couple / Low roller friends / You were never one / For trouble / So get out of here / I knew the game / Was dangerous back then / But nobody’s breezing / Th
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Dire Straits - Tunnel Of Love Lyrics & Meanings
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Tunnel Of Love Lyrics & Meanings: Getting crazy on the waltzers but it's the life that i choose / Sing about the sixblade sing about the switchback and a torture tattoo / And I been riding on a ghost train where the cars they scream and slam / And I don't know where I'll be tonight but I'd always tell you where I am / / / In a screaming ring of faces I seen her standing in the light / She had a ticket for the races just like me she was a victim of the night / I put my hand upon the lever said let it rock and let it roll / I had the one arm bandit fever there was an arrow through my heart and soul / / / And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above / And I'm just high on the world / Come on and take a low ride with me girl / On the tunnel of love / / / It's just the danger when you're riding at your own risk / She said you are the perfect stranger she said baby let's keep it like this / It's just a cakewalk twisting baby step right up and say / Hey mister give me two give me two cos any two can
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Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms Lyrics & Meanings
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Brothers In Arms Lyrics & Meanings: 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 longer burn / To be brothers in arm / / Through these fields of destruction / Baptism of fire / I've watched all your suffering / As the battles raged higher / And though they did hurt me so bad / In the fear and alarm / You did not desert me / My brothers in arms / / There's so many different worlds / So many different suns / And we have just one world / But we live in different ones / / Now the sun's gone to hell / And the moon's riding high / Let me bid you farewell / Every man has to die / But it's written in the starlight / And every line on your palm / We're fools to make war / On our brothers in arms
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Dire Straits - News Lyrics & Meanings
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News Lyrics & Meanings: He sticks to his guns / He take the road as it comes / It takes the shine off his shoes / / He’s says it’s a shame / You know it may be a game / But I won’t play to lose / / He’s burning the grass / He take up a glass / He swallow it neat / / He crosses the floor / He open the door / He take a sniff of the street / / And she tell him that he’s crazy / She’s saying listen baby / I’m your wife / / She tells him he’s crazy / For gambling with his life / / But he climbs on his horse / You know he feels no remorse / He just kicks it alive / / His motor is fine / He take it over the line / Until he’s ready to dive / / And she tells him that he’s crazy / She’s saying listen baby / I’m your wife / / She’s tell him he’s crazy / For gambling with his life / / He sticks to his guns / He take the road as it comes / It takes the shine off his shoes / / He’s says it’s a shame / You know it may be a game / But I won’t play to lose / / He sticks to his gun
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Mark Knopfler - Silvertown Blues Lyrics & Meanings
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Silvertown Blues Lyrics & Meanings: On Silvertown Way, the cranes stand high / Quiet and gray against the still of the sky / They won't quit and lay down though the action has died / They watch the new game in town on the Blackwall side / / From the poisonous drains a vision appears / New circle of cranes, a new reason to be here / A big silver dome rising up into the dawn / Above the church and the homes where all the silver is gone / / If I'd a bucket of gold, what would I do / I'd leave the story untold Silvertown blues / Going down Silvertown / Down in Silverdown / Going down Silvertown / Down in Silverdown / / A silver dawn steals over the docks / A truck with no weels up on cinderblocks / Men with no dreams around a fire in a drum / Scrap metal schemes are rusted over and done / / If I'd a bucket of gold, silver would do / I'd leave the story untold Silvertown blues / Going down Silvertown / Down in Silverdown / Going down Silvertown / Down in Silverdown / / When you're standing on thin and dangero
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Mark Knopfler - Beryl Lyrics & Meanings
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Beryl Lyrics & Meanings: Beryl was on another level / When she got a Booker medal / She was dead in her grave / After all she gave / After all she gave / / Beryl, every time they’d overlook her / When they gave her a Booker / She was dead in her grave / After all she gave / After all she gave / / It’s all too late now / It’s all too late now / It’s too late, you dabblers / It’s all too late / It’s too late, you dabblers / It’s all too late / / Beryl, the tobacco overtook her / When they gave her a Booker / She was dead in her grave / After all she gave / After all she gave / / It’s all too late now / It’s all too late now / It’s too late, you dabblers / It’s all too late / It’s too late, you dabblers / It’s all too late / / Beryl was on another level / When she got a Booker medal / She was dead in her grave / After all she gave / After all she gave / After all she gave / After all she gave
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Dire Straits - Portobello Belle Lyrics & Meanings
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Portobello Belle Lyrics & Meanings: Belladonna'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 / She gonna travel light now / She got to turn up all her roots now / She got the turn up on the boots now / / She thinks she's tough / She ain't no English rose / But the blind singer / He's seen enough and he knows / / Yes, and he do a song / About a long gone Irish girl / Oh, but I got one for you / Portobello belle / / She sees a man upon his back there / Escaping from a sack there / And Belladonna lingers / Her gloves they got no fingers / / Yeah, the blind man singing Irish / He get his money in a tin dish / Just a corner serenader / Upon a time he could have made her / / She thinks she's tough / She ain't no English rose / But the blind singer / He's seen enough and he knows / / Yes, and he do a song / About a long gone Irish girl / Oh, but I got one for you / Portobello belle / / Yes, and the
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Dire Straits - On Every Street Lyrics & Meanings
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On Every Street Lyrics & Meanings: There's gotta be a record of you some place / You gotta be on somebody's books / The lowdown - a picture of your face / Your injured looks / The sacred and profane / The pleasure and the pain / Somewhere your fingerprints remain concrete / And it's your face I'm looking for on every street / / A ladykiller - regulation tattoo / Silver spurs on his heels / Says - what can I tell you as I'm standing next to you / She threw herself under my wheels / Oh it's a dangerous road / And a hazardous load / And the fireworks over liberty explode in the heat / And it's your face I'm looking for on every street / / A three-chord symphony crashes into space / The moon is hanging upside down / I don't know why it is I'm still on the case / It's a ravenous town / And you still refuse to be traced / Seems to me such a waste / And every victory has a taste that's bittersweet / And it's your face I'm looking for on every street / Yeah, it's your face I'm looking for on every street
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Dire Straits - Iron Hand Lyrics & Meanings
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Iron Hand Lyrics & Meanings: With all the clarity of dream / The sky so blue, the grass so green / The rank and file and the navy blue / The deep and strong, the straight and true / / The blue line they got the given sign / The belts and boots march forward in time / The wood and leather the club and shield / Swept like a wave across the battlefield / / Now with all the clarity of dream / The blood so red, the grass so green / The gleam of spur on chestnut flank / The cavalry did burst upon the ranks / / Oh the iron will and iron hand / In england’s green and pleasant land / No music for the shameful scene / That night they said it had even shocked the queen / / Well alas we’ve seen it all before / Knights in armour, days of yore / The same old fears and the same old crimes / We haven’t changed since ancient times
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Dire Straits - The BUG Lyrics & Meanings
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The BUG Lyrics & Meanings: 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 'til you make a mistake / / Sometimes you're the windshield / Sometimes you're the bug / Sometimes it all comes together baby / Sometimes you're a fool in love / Sometimes you're the louisville slugger / Sometimes you're the ball / Sometimes it all comes together baby / Sometimes you're going lose it all / / You gotta know happy - you gotta know glad / Because you're gonna know lonely / And you're gonna know bad / When you're rippin' and a ridin' / And you're coming on strong / You start slippin' and slidin' / And it all goes wrong because / / Sometimes you're the windshield / Sometimes you're the bug / Sometimes it all comes together baby / Sometimes you're a fool in love / Sometimes you're the louisville slugger baby / Sometimes you're the ball / Sometimes it all comes together baby / Sometimes you're going los
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Dire Straits - Private Investigations Lyrics & Meanings
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Private Investigations Lyrics & Meanings: It's a mystery to me, the game commences / For the usual fee, plus expanses / Confidential information, it's in a diary / This is my investigation, / it's not a public inquiry / / I go checking out the reports, / digging up the dirt / You get to meet all sorts in this line of work / Treachery and treason, / there's always an excuse for it / And when I find the reason, / I still can't get used to it / / And what have you got at the end of the day? / What have you got to take away? / A bottle of whiskey and a new set of lies / Blinds on the window and a pain behind the eyes / / Scarred for life - no compensation / Private investigations
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Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet Lyrics & Meanings
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Romeo And Juliet Lyrics & Meanings: A lovestruck romeo sings a street side serenade / Laying everybody low with me a lovesong that he made / Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade / Says something like you and me babe how about it ? / / Juliet says hey it's romeo you nearly gimme a heart attack / He's underneath the window she's singing hey la my boyfriend's back / You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that / Anyway what you gonna do about it ? / / Juliet the dice were loaded from the start / And I bet and you exploded in my heart / And I forget the movie song / When you wanna realise it was just that the time was wrong juliet ? / / Come up on differents streets they both were streets of shame / Both dirty both mean yes and the dream was just the same / And I dreamed your dream for you and your dream is real / How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals ? / / Where you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold / You can fall f
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Dire Straits - Once Upon A Time In The West Lyrics & Meanings
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Once Upon A Time In The West Lyrics & Meanings: 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 room to pass / Sunday driver never took a test / Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west / / Yes it’s no use saying that you don’t know nothing / It’s still gonna get you if you don’t do something / Sitting on a fence that’s a dangerous course / Oh, you could even catch a bullet from the peace-keeping force / Even the hero gets a bullet in the chest / Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west / / Mother mary your children are slaughtered / Some of you mothers ought to lock up your daughters / Who’s protecting the innocenti / Heap big trouble in the land of plenty / Tell me how we’re gonna do what’s best / You guess once upon a time in the west / / Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west / Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west / Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west / / Once upon a time in t
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Mark Knopfler - Boom, Like That Lyrics & Meanings
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Boom, Like That Lyrics & Meanings: I'm going to San Bernardino ring-a-ding-ding / Milkshake mixers, that's my thing, now / These guys bought a heap of my stuff / And I gotta see a good thing sure enough, now / Or my name's not Kroc, that's Kroc with a 'k' / Like 'crocodile' but not spelled that way, yeah / It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat / Kroc-style boom, like that / / The folks line up all down the street / And I'm seeing this girl devour her meat, now / And then I get it, wham, as clear as day / My pulse begins to hammer and I hear a voice say / / These boys have got this down / Oughtta be a one of these in every town / These boys have got the touch / It's clean as a whistle and it don't cost much / Wham, bam you don't wait long / Shake, fries, patty, you're gone / And how about that friendly name? / Heck, every little thing oughtta stay the same / Or my name's not Kroc, that's Kroc with a 'k' / Like 'crocodile' but not spelled that way, now / It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat (x3) / Kroc-style boom, like th
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Mark Knopfler - Imelda Lyrics & Meanings
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Imelda Lyrics & Meanings: She's going shopping, shopping for shoes. / She want them in magenta and Caribbean blue. / Platinum and buttercup, lilac and black. / They fill a bucket up and laugh behind her back. / Imelda baby, Imelda baby what to do? / All the poor people saying that they gotta quit paying for you. / / In New York and Paris on the Champs Elyssée / They see her coming from a long, long way. / They clap their hands together when they get her in their store. / She's gonna wanna get more more more [and more and more] / Imelda baby, Imelda baby what to do? / All the poor people saying that they gotta quit paying for you. / / Everyone's gone Jackie O / She was a regular here. / We thought madame would like to know / We've got the blood red rouge right here. / / Now we've got all of madame's requisites and all in madame's size. / Madame's taste is truly exquisite she must accessorise. / The belts are alligator the bags are kangaroo. / Enchanté may I say the jade was made for you / Imelda baby ,Ime
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Dire Straits - Telegraph Road Lyrics & Meanings
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Telegraph Road Lyrics & Meanings: A long time ago came a man on a track / Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back / And he put down his load where he thought it was the best / He made a home in the wilderness / He built a cabin and a winter store / And he plowed up the ground by the cold lake shore / And the other travelers came walking down the track / And they never went further, and they never went back / Then came the churches, then came the schools / Then came the lawyers, and then came the rules / Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads / And the dirty old track was the telegraph road / / Then came the mines, then came the ore / Then there was the hard times, then there was a war / Telegraph sang a song about the world outside / Telegraph road got so deep and so wide / Like a rolling river / / And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze / People driving home from the factories / There's six lanes of traffic / Three lanes moving slow / / I used to like to go to work, but they shut i
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Mark Knopfler - Rüdiger Lyrics & Meanings
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Rüdiger Lyrics & Meanings: Radiger stands in the rain and the snow / Collector of autographs / Names upon photographs / Faces of people who everyone knows / / Radiger lives in a place on his own / Briefcase and spectacles / Strange and respectable / He knows the meaning of being alone / / Radiger works as a clerk in the town / Music or politics / Radiger gets his kicks / He gets information then he comes around / / Radiger waits at the hall in Berlin / He waits there all night / Security's tight / They know who he is but they don't let him in / / Radiger waits in the dark by the stair / His fingers are shaking / His feet they are aching / But your name's in the paper so Radiger's there
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Dire Straits - Lions Lyrics & Meanings
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Lions Lyrics & Meanings: Red sun go down way over dirty town / Starling are sweeping around crazy shoals / A girl is there high heeling across the square / Wind blows around in her hair and the flags upon the poles / Waiting in the crowd to cross at the light / She looks around to find a face she can like. / / Church bell clinging on trying to get a crowd for evensong / Nobody cares to depend upon the chime it plays / They’re all in the station praying for trains / Cogregations late again / It’s getting darker all the time these flagpole days / Drunk old soldier he gives her a fright / He’s crazy lion howling for a fight. / / Strap hanging gunshot sound / Doors slamming on the overground / Starlings are tough but the lions are made of stone / Her evening paper is horror torn / But there’s hope later for capricorns / Her lucky stars give her just enough to get home / Then she’s reading about a swing to the right / But she’s thinking about a stranger in the night / I’m thinking about the lions t
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Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing Lyrics & Meanings
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Sultans Of Swing Lyrics & Meanings: You get a shiver in the dark / It's a 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 alright when you hear the music ring / / Well now you step inside but you don't see too many faces / Coming in out of the rain they hear the jazz go down / Competition in other places / Uh but the horns they blowing that sound / Way on down south / Way on down south / London town / / You check out guitar George, he knows-all the chords / Mind, it's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing / They said an old guitar is all, he can afford / When he gets up under the lights to play his thing / / And Harry doesn't mind, if he doesn't, make the scene / He's got a daytime job, he's doing alright / He can play the Honky Tonk like anything / Savin' it up, for Friday night / With the Sultans / We're the Sultans of Swing / / Then a crowd a young boys they're a foolin' around in the corner
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Dire Straits - Calling Elvis Lyrics & Meanings
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Calling Elvis Lyrics & Meanings: 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 / / well tell him I was calling just to wish him well / let me leave my number - heartbreak hotel / oh love me tender - baby dob't be cruel / return to sender - treat me like a fool / / 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 / / why don't you go get him - I'm his biggest fan / you gotta tell him - he's still the man / long distance baby - so far from home / don't you think maybe you could put him on / / well tell him I was calling just to wish him well / let me leave my number - heartbreak hotel / oh love me tender - baby dob't be cruel / return to sender - treat me like a fool / / calling elvis - is anybody home / calling elvis - I'm here all alone / did he leave the building / or c
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Dire Straits - Les Boys Lyrics & Meanings
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Les Boys Lyrics & Meanings: Les boys do cabaret / Les boys are glad to be gay / They’re not afraid now / Disco bar in germany / Les boys are glad to be / Upon parade now / / Les boys got leather straps / Les boys got ss caps / But they got no gun now / Get dressed up get a little risque / Got to do a little s & m these days / It’s all in fun now / / Les boys come on again / For the high class whores / And the businessmen / Who drive in their mercedes benz / To a disco bar in old munchen / / They get the jokes that the d.j. makes / They get nervous and they make mistakes / They’re bad for business / Some tourist take a photograph / Les boys don’t get one laugh / He says they’re useless / / Late at night when they’re gone away / Les boys dream of jean genet / High heel shoes and a black beret / And the posters on the wall that say / Les boys do cabaret / Les boys are glad to be gay
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Dire Straits - It Never Rains Lyrics & Meanings
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It Never Rains Lyrics & Meanings: 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 you persevere / On the same old pleasure ground / Oh and it never rains around here / Nuh, It just come pouring down / Mm-hm / / You had no more volunteers / So you got profiteers for to help you out / Well with friends like that babe / Good friends you had to do without / And now they've taken the chains and the gears / From off your merry-go-round / Oh and it never rains around here / Ooh, it just come pouring down / / And your new romeo / Was just a gigolo when he let you down / See the faster they are baby / The faster they get out of town / Leaving make up stains and the tears / Of a clown / Yes and it never rains around here / Mm, it just come pouring down / / Oh you were just a roller coaster memory / I don't know why I was even passing through / I saw you making a date with destiny / Then he came around
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Dire Straits - Why Worry Lyrics & Meanings
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Why Worry Lyrics & Meanings: Baby, I see this world has made you sad / Some people can be bad / The things they do the things they say / / But baby, I'll wipe away those bitter tears / I'll chase away those restless fears / That turn your blue skies into gray / / Why worry / There should be laughter after pain / There should be sunshine after rain / These things have always been the same / So why worry now / Why worry now / / Baby, when I get down I turn to you / And you make sense of what I do / I know it isn't hard to say / / But baby, just when this world seems mean and cold / Our love comes shinning red and gold / And all the rest is by the way / / Why worry / There should be laughter after pain / There should be sunshine after rain / These things have always been the same / So why worry now / Why worry now
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Dire Straits - In The Gallery Lyrics & Meanings
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In The Gallery Lyrics & Meanings: Harry made a bareback rider proud and free upon a horse / And a fine coalminer for the ncb that was / A fallen angel and jesus on the cross / A skating ballerina you should have seen her do the skater’s waltz / / Some people have got to paint and draw / Harry had to work iin clay and stone / Like the waves coming to the shore / It was in his blood and in his bones / Ignored by all the trendy boys in london and in leeds / He might as well have been making toys or strings of beads / He could not be in the gallery / / And then you get an artist says he doesn’t want to paint at all / He takes an empty canvas and sticks it on the wall / The birds of a feather all the phonies and all of the fakes / While the dealers they get together / And they decide who gets the breaks / And who’s going to be in the gallery / / No lies he wouldn’t compromise / No junk no bits of string / And all the lies we subsidise / That just don’t mean a thing / I’ve got to say he passed away i
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Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline Lyrics & Meanings
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Down To The Waterline Lyrics & Meanings: Sweet surrender on the quayside / You remember we used to run and hide / In the shadow of the cargoes I take you one time / And we’re counting all the numbers down to the waterline / Near misses on the dogleap stairways / French kisses in the darkened doorways / A foghorn blowing out wild and cold / A policeman shines a light upon my shoulder / Up comes a coaster fast and silent in the night / Over my shoulder all you can see are the pilot lights / No money in our jackets and our jeans are torn / Your hands are cold but your lips are warm / She can see him on the jetty where they used to go / She can feel him in the places where the sailors go / When she’s walking by the river and the railway line / She can still hear him whisper / Let’s go down to the waterline.
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Dire Straits - Walk Of Life Lyrics & Meanings
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Walk Of Life Lyrics & Meanings: Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies / Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say / Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman / Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay / He got the action, he got the motion / Yeah, the boy can play / Dedication devotion / Turning all the night time into the day / / He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman / He do the song about the knife / He do the walk, he do the walk of life / / Here comes Johnny and he'll tell you the story / Hand me down mu walkin' shoes / Here come Johnny with the power and the glory / Backbeat the talkin' blues / He got the action, he got the motion / Yeah, the boy can play / Dedication devotion / Turning all the night time into the day / / He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman / He do the song about the knife / He do the walk, he do the walk of life / / Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies / Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say / Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman / Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay
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Mark Knopfler - Sailing To Philadelphia Lyrics & Meanings
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Sailing To Philadelphia Lyrics & Meanings: I am a Jeremiah Dixon / I am a Geordie Boy / A glass of whine with you, sir / And the ladies I'll enjoy / All Durham and Northumberland / Is measured up by my own hand / It was my fate from birth / To make my mark upon the earth... / He calls me Charlie Mason / A stargazer am I / It seems that I was born / To chart the evening sky / They'd cut me out for baking bread / But I had other dreams instead / This baker's boy from the west country / Would join the Royal Society... / We are sailing to Philadelphia / A wold away from the coaly Tyne / Sailing to Philadelphia / To draw the line / The Mason-Dixon line / Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon / But I swear you'll make me mad / The West will kill us both / You gullible Geordie lad / You talk of liberty / How can America be free / A Geordie and a baker's boy / In the forest of the Iroquois... / Now hold your head up, Mason / See America lies there / The morning tide has raised / The capes of Delaware / Come up and feel t
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Dire Straits - Wild West End Lyrics & Meanings
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Wild West End Lyrics & Meanings: Stepping out to angellucci’s for my coffee beans / Checking out the movies and the magazines / Waitress she watches me crossing from the barocco bar / I’m getting a pickup for my steel guitar / I saw you walking out shaftesbury avenue / Excuse me for talking I wanna marry you / This is the seventh heaven street to me / Don’t be so proud / You’re just another angel in the crowd / And I’m walking in he wild west end / Walking with your wild best friend / / And my conductress on the number nineteen / She was a honey / Pink toenails and hands all dirty with money / Greasy hair easy smile / Made me feel nineteen for a while / Amd wi went down to chinatown / In the backroom it’s a man’s world / All the money go down / Duck inside the doorway gotta duck to eat / Right now feels alright now / You and me we can’t beat / / And a gogo dancing girl yes I saw her / The deejay he say here’s mandy for ya / I feel alright to see her / But she’s paid to do that stuff / Sh
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Dire Straits - Money For Nothing Lyrics & Meanings
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Money For Nothing Lyrics & Meanings: (I want my MTV) / / Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it / You play the guitar on the M.T.V. / That ain't workin' that's the way you do it / Money for nothin' and your chicks for free. / / Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it / Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb / Maybe get a blister on your little finger / Maybe get a blister on your thumb. / / We gotta install microwave ovens custom kitchen deliveries / We gotta move these refrigerators we gotta move these color T.V.'s. / / We gotta install microwave ovens custom kitchen deliveries / We gotta move these refrigerators we gotta move these color T.V.'s. / / I shoulda learned to play the guitar / I shoulda learned to play them drums / Look at that mama she got it stickin' in the camera / Man we could have some fun / / And he's up there, what's that? Hawaiian noises? / You bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee / Oh that ain't workin' that's the way you do it / Get your money for nothin
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Dire Straits - You & Your Friend Lyrics & Meanings
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You & Your Friend Lyrics & Meanings: 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 your friend gonna let me down / / If you talk to one another / I’m a hungry man / Let me know one way or the other / So I can make my plans / / Will you and your friend come around / Or are you and your friend gonna get on down / Will you and your friend come around / Or are you and your friend gonna get on down / / I relive the situation / Still see it in my mind / You got my imagination / Working overtime
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Dire Straits - Expresso Love Lyrics & Meanings
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Expresso Love Lyrics & Meanings: She gets the sun in the daytime / Perfume in the dusk / And she comes out in the night time / With the honeysuckle musk / Because she smells just like a rose / And she tastes just like a peach / She got me walking where the wildlife goes / I'd do anything to reach her / / And she was made in heaven / Heaven's in the world / Oh she was made in heaven / Heaven's in the world / Is this just expresso love / You know I'm crazy for the girl / crazy for the girl / / She call me just to talk / She's my lover, she's a friend of mine / She says hey mister, you wanna take a walk in the wild west end / Sometime / And I get trouble with my breathing / And she says boys don't know anything / But I know what I want / (I want a taste) Yes I want everything / / ‘Cause she was made in heaven / And heaven's in the world / Oh she was made in heaven / Yes heaven's in the world / Is this just expresso love / See I'm, crazy for the girl / crazy for the girl / / Well I feel so good 'cause I fe
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Dire Straits - Industrial Disease Lyrics & Meanings
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Industrial Disease Lyrics & Meanings: Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control / Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole / There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town / Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down / There's a meeting in the boardroom they're trying to trace the smell / There's leaking in the washroom there's a sneak in personnel / Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze / 'goodness me could this be Industrial Disease? / / The caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post / They're refusing to be pacified it's him they blame the most / The watchdog's got rabies the foreman's got fleas / And everyone's concerned about Industrial Disease / There's panic on the switchboard tongues are ties in knots / Some come out in sympathy some come out in spots / Some blame the management some the employees / And everybody knows it's the Industrial Disease / / The work force is disgusted downs tools and walks / Innocence is injured experience jus
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Dire Straits - Heavy Fuel Lyrics & Meanings
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Heavy Fuel Lyrics & Meanings: 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 / 'cos if you wanna run cool / if you wanna run cool / if you wanna run cool, you got to run / on heavy, heavy fuel / / my life makes perfect sense / lust and food and violence / sex and money are my major kicks / get me in a fight I like dirty tricks / 'cos if you wanna run cool / yes if you wanna run cool, you got to run / on heavy, heavy fuel / / my chick loves a man who's strong / the things she'll do to turn me on / I love the babes, don't get me wrong / hey, that's why I wrote this song / / I don't care if my liver is hanging by a thread / don't care if my doctor says I ought to be dead / when my ugly big car won't climb this hill / I'll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill / 'cos if you wanna run cool / if you wanna run cool / yes if you wanna run cool, you got to run / on heavy, heavy fuel
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Dire Straits - Ticket To Heaven Lyrics & Meanings
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Ticket To Heaven Lyrics & Meanings: I can see what you’re looking to find / In the smile on my face / In my peace of mind / In my state of grace / I send what I can / To the man from the ministry / He’s a part of heaven’s plan / And he talks to me / / Now I send what I can to the man / With the diamond ring / He’s a part of heaven’s plan / And he sure can sing / Now it’s all I can afford / But the lord has sent me eternity / It’s to save the little children / In a poor country / / I got my ticket to heaven / And everlasting life / I got a ride all the way to paradise / I got my ticket to heaven / And everlasting life / All the way to paradise / / Now there’s nothing left for luxuries / Nothing left to pay my heating bill / But the good lord will provide / I know he will / So send what you can / To the man with the diamond ring / They’re tuning in across the land / To hear him sing / / I got my ticket to heaven / And everlasting life / I got a ride all the way to paradise / I got my ticke
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Mark Knopfler - Romeo and Juliet (Dire Straits cover) Lyrics & Meanings
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Romeo and Juliet (Dire Straits cover) Lyrics & Meanings: So your lovestruck Romeo has got his serenade / Laying everybody low with a love song that he made / Finds a streetlight, steps out of the shade, says something like /
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Dire Straits - Hand In Hand Lyrics & Meanings
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Hand In Hand Lyrics & Meanings: 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 / Rain come down forgive this dirty town / Rain come down and give this dirty town / A drink of water a drink of wine / / If I been hard on you I never chose to be / I never wanted no one else / I tried my best to be somebody you’d be close to / Hand in hand like lovers are supposed to / / As you’d sleep I’d think my heart would break in two / I’d kiss your cheek I’d stop myself from waking you / But in the dark you’d speak my name / You’d say baby what’s wrong ? / Oh ? here I am baby I’m coming back for more / I’m like a wave that’s got to roll into the shore / Yes and if my love’s in vain how come my love is so strong ? / / Now you and me go parallel together and apart / And you keep your perfect distance and it’s tearing at my heart / Did you never feel the distance / You never tried to cross no
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Mark Knopfler - Why Aye Man Lyrics & Meanings
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Why Aye Man Lyrics & Meanings: We had no way of staying afloat / We had to leave on the ferry boat / Economic refugees / On the run to Germany / We had the back of Maggie's hand / Times were tough in geordieland / We got work tools and working gear / And humped it all from Newcastle to here / / Why aye man, why aye, why aye man / Why aye man, why aye, why aye man / / We're the nomad tribes, traveling boys / In the dust and dirt and the racket and the noise / Drills and hammers, diggers and picks / Mixing concrete, laying bricks / There's English, Irish, Scots, the lot / United nation's what we've got / Brickies, chippies, every trade / German building, British-made / / Why aye man, why aye, why aye man / Why aye man, why aye, why aye man / / Nae more work on Maggie's farm / Hadaway down the autobahn / Mine's a portacabin bed / Or a bunk in a nissen hut instead / / There's plenty Deutschmarks here to earn / And German tarts are wunderschoen / German beer is chemical-free / Germany's alreet with me / Somet
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Dire Straits - My Parties Lyrics & Meanings
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My Parties Lyrics & Meanings: 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 / That's a genuine weathervane / It moves with the breeze / Portable hammock honey / Who needs trees / It's casual entertaining / We aim to please / At my parties / / Check out the shingles / It's brand new / Excuse me while I mingle / Hi, how are you / Hey everybody / Let me give you a toast / This one's for me / The host with the most / / It's getting a trifle colder / Step inside my home / That's a brass toilet tissue holder with it's own telephone / That's musical doorbell / It don't ring, I ain't kiddin' / It plays 'America The Beautiful' and 'Tie A Yellow Ribbon' / / Boy, this punch is a trip / It's OK in my book / Here, take a sip / Maybe little heaven on the fruit / Ah, here comes the dip / You may kiss the cook / Let me show you honey / It's easy, look / You take a fork and spire 'em / Say, did you try these
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