 SongMeanings Interpretations
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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 - 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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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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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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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 - 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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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 - 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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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 - 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 - 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 - Six Blade Knife Lyrics & Meanings
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Six Blade Knife Lyrics & Meanings: Your six blade knife do anything for you; / anything you want it to. / One blade breaking my heart; one blade tearing me apart, / well, your six blade knife do anything for you. / / You can take away my mind like you take away the top of a tin; / when you come up from behind and you lay it down cold on my skin. / You took a stone from my soul when I was lame / just so you could make me tame; / yes, you take away my mind like you take away the top of a tin. / / CHORUS: / / I want to be free of it babe, I don't want it no more; / I'd like to be free of it babe, I don't want it no more. / / Everybody's got a knife it can be just what you want it to be, / a needle, a wipe, or something that you just can't see; / Your six blade knife want to make you strong, / yes, I need to do me long; / Your six blade knife do anything for you. / / CHORUS
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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - So Far Away Lyrics & Meanings
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So Far Away Lyrics & Meanings: Here I am again in this mean old town / And you're so far away from me / And where are you when the sun goes down / You're so far away from me / / So far away from me / So far I just can't see / So far away from me / You're so far away from me / / I'm tired of being in love and being all alone / When you're so far away from me / I'm tired of making out on the telephone / And you're so far away from me / / So far away from me / So far I just can't see / So far away from me / You're so far away from me / / I get so tired when I have to explain / When you're so far away from me / See you've been in the sun and I've been in the rain / And you're so far away from me / / So far away from me / So far I just can't see / So far away from me / You're so far away from me
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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 - Planet of New Orleans Lyrics & Meanings
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Planet of New Orleans Lyrics & Meanings: Standing on the corner / Of Toulouse and Dauphine / Waiting on Marie-Ondine / I’m trying to place a tune / Under a Louisiana moonbeam / On the planet of New Orleans / / In a bar they call the Saturn / And in her eyes of green / And something that she said in a dream / Inside of my suit I got my mojo root / And a true love figurine / For the planet of the New Orleans / / New Orleans / With other life upon it / And everything that’s shaking in between / If you should ever land upon it / You better know what’s on it / The planet of the New Orleans / / Now I’m trying to find my way / Through the rain and the steam / I’m looking straight ahead through the screen / And then I heard her say / Something in the limousine / ’bout taking a ride across the planet of New Orleans / / If she was an ace / And I was just a jack / And the cards were never seen / We could have been the king and the queen / But she took me home, back to her courtyard / Where magnolia perfu
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Dire Straits - Twisting By The Pool Lyrics & Meanings
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Twisting By The Pool Lyrics & Meanings: We're going on a holiday now / Gonna take a villa, a small chalet / On the Costa del Magnifico / Where the cost of living is so low / Yeah, we're gonna be so neat / Dance to the Eurobeat / Yeah, we're gonna be so cool / Twisting by the pool / / / Sitting in a small cafe now / Swing, swing, swingin to the cabaret / You wanna see a movie, take in a show now / Meet new people at the disco / Yeah, we're gonna be so neat / Dance to the Eurobeat / Yeah, we're gonna be so cool / Twisting by the pool / / / And we can stil get information / Reading all about inflation / And you're never gonna be out of reach / There's a call-box on the beach / / / Mmm, you're gonna look so cute / Sunglasses and bathing suites / Be the baby of my dreams / Like the ladies in the magazine / Yeah, we're gonna be so neat / Dance to the Eurobeat / Yeah, we're gonna be so cool / Twisting by the pool / / / I'm a twisting fool / Just twisting, yeah twisting / Twisting by the pool
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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 - 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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