Genius Meanings
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – The Man's Too Strong
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[Verse 1] / I am just an aging drummer boy / And in the wars I used to play / And I've called a tune / To many a torture session / Now they say I am a war criminal / And I'm fading
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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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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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Blue Öyster Cult – (Don't Fear) The Reaper
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This 1976 hit’s meaning led to great discussions by fans. While written with the thoughts of the inevitability of death and dying young on the lyricist’s mind, he staunchly
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Supertramp – Breakfast in America
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In a prescient way, the Englishmen of Supertramp sing about the possibility of achieving success across the pond – which the album titled after this song helped them get.
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