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One World Lyrics

Can't find no sleeves for my records
Can't get no laces for my shoes
Can't get no fancy notes
On my blue guitar
Can't get no antidote for blues

Can't find the reasons for your actions
Or I don't much like the reasoning you use
Somehow your motives are impure
Or somehow I can't find the cure
Can't find no antidote for blues

They say it's mostly vanity
That writes the plays we act
They tell me that's what everybody knows
There's no such thing as sanity
And that's the sanest fact
That's the way the story goes

Can't get no remedy on my TV
There's nothing but the same old news
They can't find a way to be
One world in harmony
Can't get no antidote for blues
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Some pure blues in the lyrics: The musician is broke, not playing well, unsettled in his personal relationships, society and the whole world are downers. Eighties guitar-driven blues, and it works for me. What a great encapsulation of maladjustment: "Somehow your motives are impure. Somehow I can't find a cure." If there is a cure, the soaring and passionate guitar riffs in this song is it.

Cover art for One World lyrics by Dire Straits

this song is sweet...i give it 8 out of 10...not bad for being the worst song on the album...

Cover art for One World lyrics by Dire Straits

Somewhat diffirent compared to other songs on the album, but it's good none-the-less.