 Genius Meanings
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Mark Knopfler (Ft. James Taylor) – Sailing to Philadelphia
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“Sailing to Philadelphia” by Mark Knopfler appears on his album of the same name (2000).
This is a story song, told in two monologues between Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon as
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Mark Knopfler – Sailing to Philadelphia - Live at Massey Hall, Toronto
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[Verse 1] / I'm Jeremiah Dixon / I am a Geordie boy / A glass of wine with you, sir / And the ladies I'll enjoy / All Durham and Northumberland / Is measured up by my own hand / It
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Mark Knopfler – Prairie Wedding
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[Verse 1] / We only knew each other by letter / I went to meet her off the train / When the smoke had cleared and the dust was still / She was standing there and speaking my name
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Mark Knopfler – Junkie Doll
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“Junkie Doll” by Mark Knopfler appears on his album, ‘Sailing To Philadelphia’ – 2000. Many believe it’s a song about drug addiction, specifically heroin. In reality, it’s a song
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Mark Knopfler – What It Is
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Mark Knopfler – Sands of Nevada
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[Verse 1] / These tables are haunted / By the ghost of Las Vegas / Their chips were once mountains / But they came here to play / They could take me if they wanted / But I have
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Mark Knopfler – El Macho
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[Verse 1] / Your date has gone home / Now you're left on your own sweet own / You're a tough-talking friend / Split on you in the bitter end / And you look like a fine thing, Jerry
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Mark Knopfler – Do America
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[Verse 1] / Well I've been it ever since I was a kid at school / Now they love me in Newcastle and in Liverpool / I am as hard as a pistol I can do no wrong / I've been in
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Mark Knopfler – Wanderlust
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[Verse 1] / Big black cloud / On a yellow plane / Sure enough it / Looks like rain / Packin' up all our / Faith and trust / Me and the wanderlust / [Verse 2] / Open window / Empty
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Mark Knopfler – Silvertown Blues
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“Silvertown Blues” by Mark Knopfler appears on his 2000 album, Sailing to Philadelphia.
This is a lament about a small Nevada town that was part of the silver rush of the 19th
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Mark Knopfler – Gator Blood
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[Verse 1] / Hammer on a skillet, up they come / Showman whanging on a ballyhoo drum / Watch out, people, I'm a greedy man / Swallowed all the fishes in the frying pan / [Chorus
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Mark Knopfler – Who's Your Baby Now
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[Verse 1] / The rock you stood upon / Is broken up and gone / Hey baby, who's your baby now / On the slipway of your dream / Stands someone else's scheme / Hey baby, who's your
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Mark Knopfler – Hot or What
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[Verse 1] / She came on the river / With a gift for me / I'm in way deep / That's how it has to be / It's hot in the desert / But I'm cool in the zone / People call me lucky / But
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Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris – I Dug Up a Diamond
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Knopfler has said that some songs on this album, for which he shares artist credit with Emmylou Harris, were originally written to be included on his second solo album, Sailing to
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Mark Knopfler (Ft. Van Morrison) – The Last Laugh
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[Verse 1: Mark Knopfler] / Don't you love the sound / Of the last laugh, my friend / Don't you love the sound / Of the last laugh, at the end / [Pre-Chorus: Mark Knopfler] / Down
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Mark Knopfler – One More Matinee
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[Verse 1] / Here's one of the two of us / In 1954 / Don't laugh I keep all of the pictures / Are you going to take a photograph? / Here's something nice for you / A dear old thing
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Mark Knopfler – Baloney Again
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[Verse 1] / We don't eat in no white restaurant / We're eatin' in the car / Baloney again, baloney again / We don't sleep in no white hotel bed / We're sleepin' in the car
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Mark Knopfler – River of Grog
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[Verse 1] / By day I sell them my soul / I work like a mole / Under the shop / By night I'll drink in the cold hole / Or down in the nine-foot drop / [Pre-Chorus] / By day I'm a
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Mark Knopfler – Bluebird
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[Verse 1] / Got crows in my pasture / Rats in my barn / Crows in my pasture, babe / Rats in my barn / If I was you, little bluebird / I'd up and find another farm / [Verse 2] / I'
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Mark Knopfler – Miss You Blues
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[Chorus] / Miss you blues, baby, miss you blues / Miss you blues, baby, miss you blues / You never used to look behind you, that isn't what you'd do / Didn't leave a thing behind
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Mark Knopfler – Today Is Okay
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[Verse 1] / Well, we like to have some friends around / Do the twist to Ray Charles and James Brown / After lunch, I'll maybe take a nap / I like a nap before a scrap / [Verse 2
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Mark Knopfler – Don't Forget Your Hat
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“Don’t Forget Your Hat” by Mark Knopfler appears on his 2012 album, Privateering.
The album uses the life of the privateer at sea as a metaphor for life as a musician on the
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Mark Knopfler – Your Perfect Song
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[Verse 1] / Ever certain, ever strong / Your song, the perfect song / Like a bright star shining on / Your perfect song / [Verse 2] / Never waivers, never wrong / Your song, the
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Mark Knopfler – Redbud Tree
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[Verse 1] / Hunted down, I came upon / A place of ferns and grass / Gathered to a redbud tree / And now their footsteps pass / Where I crouch in dread / Discovery my certain death
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Mark Knopfler – Got to Have Something
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[Verse 1] / Well if you ain't got whiskey / Don't tell me that you ain't got gin / If you ain't got whiskey / Don't tell me that you ain't got gin / Well, I got to have something
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Mark Knopfler – Blood and Water
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[Chorus] / Blood and water, bound to overflow / Blood and water, bound to overflow / Well there's no more high water / But the old man's just waiting, I know / [Verse 1] / He was
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Mark Knopfler – Dream of the Drowned Submariner
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[Verse 1] / We run along easy at periscope depth / Sun dappling through clear water / [Chorus] / So went the dream of the drowned submariner / Far away from the slaughter / [Verse
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