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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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Dire Straits - Skateaway Lyrics & Meanings
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Skateaway Lyrics & Meanings: I seen a girl on a one way corridor / Stealing down a wrong way street / For all the world like an urban toreador / She had wheels on on her feet / Well the cars do the usual dances / Sames old cruise and the kerbside crawl / But the rollergirl, she's taking chances / They just love to see her take them all / / No fears alone at night she�s sailing through the crowd / In her ears the phones are tight and the music�s playing loud / / Hallelujah here she comes queens rollerball / Enchante what can I say don't care at all / You know she used to have to wait around / She used to be the lonely one / But now that she can skate around town / She's the only one / / No fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd / In her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud / / She gets rock n roll a rock n roll station / And a rock n roll dream / She's making movies on location / She don't know what it means / But the music make her wanna be the story / And the sto
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Dire Straits - Communique Lyrics & Meanings
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Communique Lyrics & Meanings: They wanna get a statement for Jesus sake / It's like talking to the wall / He's incommunicado no comment to make / He's saying nothing at all / / But in the communique you know he's gonna come clean / Think what he say, say what he mean / Maybe on Monday he got something to say / Communication / Communique / Communique / / Maybe he could talk about the tricks of the trade / Maybe he could talk about himself / Maybe he could talk about the money that he made / Maybe he'd be saying something else / / But in the communique you know he's gonna come clean / Think what he say, say what he mean / Maybe on Monday he got something to say / Communication / Communique / Communique / / And now the rumors are flying / Speculation rising / Say that he's been trying someone else's wife / / Somebody at the airport / Somebody on the phone / Says he's at the station and he's coming on the noon / / Then we get the story a serious breeze / And a photograph taken in the hall / You don't have t
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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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Dire Straits - Lady Writer Lyrics & Meanings
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Lady Writer Lyrics & Meanings: Lady Writer on the t.v. / Talk about the Virgin Mary / Reminded me of you / Expectations left to come up to yeah / / / Lady writer on the t.v. / Yeah, she had another quality / The way you used to look / And I know you never read a book / / / Just the way that her hair fell down around her face / Then I recall my fall from grace / Another time, another place / / / Lady writer on the t.v. / She had all the brains and the beauty / The picture does not fit / You talked to me when you felt like it / / / Just the way that her hair fell down around her face / Then I recall my fall from grace / Another time, another place / / / Yes and your rich old man / You know he'd call her a dead ringer / You got the same command / Plus you mother was a jazz singer / / / Just the way that her hair fell down around her face / Then I recall my fall from grace / Another time, another place / / / Lady writer on the t.v. / She knew all about a history / You couldn't hardly write your name
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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 - 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 - 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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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Love Over Gold Lyrics & Meanings
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Love Over Gold Lyrics & Meanings: 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 a knowledge of your sin / You throw your love to all the strangers / And caution to the wind / / And you go dancing through doorways / Just to see what you will find / Leaving nothing to interfere / With the crazy balance of your mind / And when you finally reappear / At the place where you came in / You've thrown your love to all the strangers / And caution to the wind / / It takes love over gold and mind over matter / To do what you do that you must / When the things that you hold can fall and be shattered / Or run through your fingers like dust
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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 - 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 - Where Do You Think You're Going? Lyrics & Meanings
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Where Do You Think You're Going? Lyrics & Meanings: 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 going? / I thing you don’t know / You got no way of knowing / There’s really no place you can go / / I understand your changes / Long before you reach the door / I know where you think you’re going / I know what you came here for / And now I’m sick of jocking / I know I like you to be free / Where do you think you’re going? / I think you better go with me girl / / You say there is no reason / But you still find cause to doubt me / If you ain’t with me girl / You’re gonna be without me / / 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? / And now I’m sick of jocking / I know I like you to be free / Where do you think you’re going? / I think you better go with me girl
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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 - 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 - Ride Across The River Lyrics & Meanings
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Ride Across The River Lyrics & Meanings: I'm a soldier of freedom in the army of the man / We are the chosen, we're the partisan / Well the cause it is noble and the cause it is just / We are ready to pay with our lives if we must / / Gonna ride across the river deep and wide / Ride across the river to the other side / / I'm a soldier of fortune, I'm a dog of war / And we don't give a damn who the killing is for / It's the same old story with a different ending / Death or glory, it's the killing game / / Gonna ride across the river deep and wide / Ride across the river to the other side / / Nothing gonna stop them as the day follows the night / Right becoming wrong, the left becomes the right / And they sing as they march with their flags unfurled / Today in the mountains, tomorrow the world / / Gonna ride across the river deep and wide / Ride across the river to the other side / / Gonna ride across the river deep and wide / Ride across the river to the other side
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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Your Latest Trick Lyrics & Meanings
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Your Latest Trick Lyrics & Meanings: All the late night bargains have been struck / Between the satin beans and their bells / Prehistoric garbage trucks / Got the city to themselves / Echoes and the roars dinosaurs / They're all doing the monster mash / And most of the taxis and the whores / Are only taking calls for cash / / I don't know how it happened / It all took place so quick / But all I can do is hand it to you / And your latest trick / / My door was standing open / Security was laid back and lax / But it was only my heart got broken / You must have had a pass key made out of wax / You played robbery with insolence / And I played the blues in twelve bars on Lover's Lane / And you never did have the intelligence to use / The twelve keys hanging off my chain / / I don't know how it happened / It all took place so quick / But all I can do is hand it to you / And your latest trick / / Now it's past last call far alcohol / Past recall has been here and gone / The landlord finally paid us all / The sati
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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 - 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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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 - How Long Lyrics & Meanings
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How Long Lyrics & Meanings: How long, how long baby / How long has it been / How long you gonna keep me wondering / How long before you see / Stallin’ me was wrong / How long / / How long, how long you gonna keep / Slappin’ my hand away / How long you gonna keep my love at bay / How long before you’re sure / My love is strong / How long / / How long, how long you gonna keep / Tellin’ me you like me fine / How long until I’m gonna make you mine / How long before wake up / And find your good man gone / How long
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Dire Straits - Follow Me Home Lyrics & Meanings
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Follow Me Home Lyrics & Meanings: Oh well the sun go down / Celebration in the town tonight / All day long / They been slaughtering upon a stone / Share out the meat / Yeah, you really liked to eat / Come on woman, come follow me home / / Well, the priest he cries / Virgins ascending to the skies tonight / All day long / I have passed my time alone / When the church bells rung / I stayed out on the tower / In a dying sun / Come on woman, come follow me home / / Well I don’t need no priest / But I love all of the people / Yes I share the feast / So drink up my wine / Yes and the song in my bones / I know the way / I can see by the moonlight / Clear as the day / Now come on woman, come follow me home
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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 - 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 - The Man's Too Strong Lyrics & Meanings
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The Man's Too Strong Lyrics & Meanings: I am just an aging drummer boy / And in the wars I used to play / And I've called the tune to many a torture session / Now they say I am a war criminal / And I'm fading away / Father, please hear my confession / / I have legalized robbery / Called it belief / I have run with the money / I have hid like a thief / Rewritten history with armies and my crooks / Invented memories / I did burn all the books / And I can still hear his laughter / And I can still hear his song / The man's too big / The man's too strong / / Well, I've tried to be meek / I have tried to be mild / But I spat like a woman / And I sulked like a child / I have lived behind walls that have made me alone / Striven for peace / Which I never have known / And I can still hear his laughter / And I can still hear his song / The man's too big / The man's too strong / / Well, the sun rose on the courtyard / And we all did hear him say / "You always was a Judas, / But I got you anyway. / You may have got you
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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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Dire Straits - Single-Handed Sailor Lyrics & Meanings
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Single-Handed Sailor Lyrics & Meanings: Two in the morning, dry-dock town / The rivers rolls away in the night / Little gypsy moth she’s all tied down / She quiver in the wind and the light / / Yeah and a sailing ship just held down in chains / From the lazy days of sail / It’s just lying there in silent pain / He lean on the turist rail / / A mother and her baby and the colege war / And the concrete graves / You never wanna against the river law / Nobody rules the waves / Yeah and on the night when the lazy wind is a-wailing / Around the cutty sark / Single handed sailor goes sailing / Sailing away in the dark / / He’s upon the bridge on the self same night / The mariner of dry dock land / Two in the morning, but there is one green light / And the man on the barge of sand / She’s gonna slip away below him / Away from the things he’s done / But he just shouts ’hey man, what do you call this thing? ’ / He could have said ’pride of london’ / On the night when the lazy wind is a-wailing / Ar
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Dire Straits - Solid Rock Lyrics & Meanings
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Solid Rock Lyrics & Meanings: Well take a look at that / I made a castle in the sand / Saying this is where it’s at you know / Couldn’t understand now / If I realised that the chances were slim / How come I’m so surprised when the tide rolled in / / I wanna live on solid rock / I’m gonna live on solid rock / I wanna give I don’t wanna be blocked / I’m gonna live on solid rock / / Well I’m sick of potential / I’m sick of vanity now / I’m sticking to essential reality now / I don’t know what’s worse / Try to make a silk purse / Living an illusion living in confusion / / Well a house of cards / Was never built for shock / You could blow it down in any kind of weather / Now two solid rocks two solid blocks / You know they’re gonna stick / Yeah they’re gonna stick together / / Because the heart you break / That’s the one that you rely on / The bed that you make / That’s the one you gotta lie on / When you point, your finger cos your plan fell through / You got three more fingers p
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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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