Get your own Free Home PageLove Over Gold
by Mark Knopfler
1982
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
Twisting By The
Pool
By Mark Knopfler
October 1982
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, swinging 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 still 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 be so cute
Sunglasses and a bathing suit
Be the baby of my dreams
Like the ladies in the magazines
Yeah, we're gonna be so neat
Dance to the Eurobeat
Yeah, we're gonna be so cool
Twisting by the pool
I'm just a twisting fool
Just twisting, yeah, twisting
Twisting by the pool.
Album:
Dire Straits
Down to the Waterline
Dire Straits
Sweet surrender on the quayside
You remember we used to run and hide
In the shadow of the cargoes I take
you one at a 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
Water of Love
High and dry in the long hot day
Lost and lonely in every way
Got the flats all around me sky up
above
I need a little water of love
I've been too long lonely and my heart
feels pain
Crying out for some soothing rain
I believe I have taken enough
I need a little water of love
Water of love deep in the ground
No water here to be found
Some day baby when the river runs free
It'll carry that water of love to me
There's a bird up in a tree sitting
up high
Waiting for me to die
If I don't get some water soon
I'll be dead and gone in the afternoon
Once I had a woman I could call my own
Once I had a woman now my woman is
gone
Once there was a river now there's
a stone
You know it's evil when you're living
alone
Setting Me Up
You say I'm the greatest bound for glory
Well the word is out and I learned
I got the latest side of the story
You're pulling out before you get burned
Well your hands are squeezing me down
to the bone
I never saw you breaking no law
Stands to reason I've got to leave
you alone
What you take me for
You're setting me up to put me down
You're making me out to be your clown
You're just setting me up to put me
down
You better give it up
Quit your messing around
You think I care about your reaction
You think I don't understand
All you wanted was a piece of the action
Now you talk about another man
Six Blade Knife
Your six blade knife can do anything
for you
Anything you want it to
One blade for breaking my heart
One blade for tearing me apart
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 lay
it down cold on my skin
Took a stone from my soul when I was
lame
Just so you could make me tame
You take away my mind like you take
away the top of a tin
I'd like to be free of it now - I don't
want it no more
I'd like to be free of it now - you
know I don't want it no more
Everybody got a knife it can be just
what they want it to be
A needle a wife or something that you
just can't see
You know it keeps you strong
Yes and it'll do me wrong
Your six blade knife - do anything
for you
Southbound Again
Southbound again I don't know if I'm
going or leaving home
Boy got to be moving
Seems like the boy is bound to roam
Southbound again got no money I've got
no place to go
That woman's with her lover boy
Never want to see her face no more
Every single time I roll across the
rolling River Tyne
I get the same old feeling
Every time I'm moving down the line
Southbound again last night I felt like
crying
Right now I'm sick of living
But I'm going to keep on trying
In the Gallery
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 in obscurity
And now all the vultures are coming
down from the tree
So he's going to be in the gallery
Wild West End
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
She's dancing high I move on by
The close ups can get rough
When you're walking in the wild west
end
Lions
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 tonight
What happened to the lions.
Sultans of Swing
By Mark Knopfler
February 1978
You get a shiver in the dark
It's 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 that
music ring
You step inside but you don't see too
many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the
jazz go down
Too much competition too many other
places
But not too many horns can make that
sound
Way on downsouth way on downsouth London
town
You check out Guitar George he knows
all the chords
Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't
want to make it cry or sing
And 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 honky tonk just like anything
Saving it up for Friday night
With the Sultans with the Sultans of
Swing
And a crowd of young boys they're fooling
around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown
baggies and their platform soles
The don't give a damn about any trumpet
playing band
It ain't what they call rock and roll
And the Sultans played Creole
And the man he steps right up to the
microphone
And says at last just as the time bell
rings
'Thank you goodnight now it's time
to go home'
And he makes it fast with one more
thing
'We are the Sultans of Swing'
@ALBUM: love.over.gold
Author: Dire
Straits
Album title:
Love Over Gold
Minor corrections by
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Luke John Bowditch ===
============== pfgumby@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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@SONG: Telegraph
Road
A long time ago came a man on a track
walking thirty miles with a pack on
his back
and he put down his load where he thought
it was the best
made a home in the wilderness
he built a cabin and a winter store
and he ploughed up the ground by the
cold lake shore
and the other travellers came riding
down the track
and they never went further, no, they
never went back
then came the churches then came the
schools
then came the lawyers 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 it down
I got a right to go to work but there's
no work here to be found
yes and they say we're gonna have to
pay what's owed
we're gonna have to reap from some
seed that's been sowed
and the birds up on the wires and the
telegraph poles
they can always fly away from this
rain and this cold
you can hear them singing out their
telegraph code
all the way down the telegraph road
You know I'd sooner forget but I remember
those nights
when life was just a bet on a race
between the lights
you had your head on my shoulder you
had your hand in my hair
now you act a little colder like you
don't seem to care
but believe in me baby and I'll take
you away
from out of this darkness and into
the day
from these rivers of headlights these
rivers of rain
from the anger that lives on the streets
with these names
'cos I've run every red light on memory
lane
I've seen desperation explode into
flames
and I don't want to see it again. .
.
>From all of these signs saying sorry
but we're closed
all the way down the telegraph road
@SONG: Private
Investigations
It's a mystery to me - the game commences
for the usual fee - plus expenses
confidential information - contained
in a diary
this is my investigation - 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 whisky and a new set of
lies
blinds on the windows and a pain behind
the eyes
Scarred for life - no compensation
private investigations
@SONG: Industrial
Disease
Warning lights are flashing down at
Quality Control
somebody threw a spanner and they threw
him in the hole
there's rumors in the loading bay and
anger in the town
somebody blew the whistle and the walls
came down
there's a meeting in the boardroom
they're trying to trace the smell
there's leaking in the washroom there's
a sneak in personnel
somewhere in the corridors someone
was heard to sneeze
'goodness me could this be Industrial
Disease?
The caretaker was crucified for sleeping
at his post
they're refusing to be pacified it's
him they blame the most
the watchdog's got rabies the foreman's
got fleas
and everyone's concerned about Industrial
Disease
there's panic on the switchboard tongues
are ties in knots
some come out in sympathy some come
out in spots
some blame the management some the
employees
and everybody knows it's the Industrial
Disease
The work force is disgusted downs tools
and
walks
innocence is injured experience just
talks
everyone seeks damages and everyone
agrees
that these are 'classic symptoms of
a monetary squeeze'
on ITV and BBC they talk about the
curse
philosophy is useless theology is worse
history boils over there's an economics
freeze
sociologists invent words that mean
'Industrial Disease'
Doctor Parkinson declared 'I'm not surprised
to see you here
you've got smokers cough from smoking,
brewer's droop from drinking beer
I don't know how you came to get the
Betty Davis knees
but worst of all young man you've got
Industrial Disease'
he wrote me a prescription he said
'you are depressed
but I'm glad you came to see me to
get this off your chest
come back and see me later - next patient
please
send in another victim of Industrial
Disease'
I go down to Speaker's Corner I'm thunderstruck
they got free speech, tourists, police
in trucks
two men say they're Jesus one of them
must be wrong
there's a protest singer singing a
protest song - he says
'they wanna have a war to keep us on
our knees
they wanna have a war to keep their
factories
they wanna have a war to stop us buying
Japanese
they wanna have a war to stop Industrial
Disease
they're pointing out the enemy to keep
you deaf and blind
they wanna sap your energy incarcerate
your mind
they give you Rule Brittania, gassy
beer, page three
two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease'
meanwhile the first Jesus says 'I'd
cure it soon
abolish monday mornings and friday
afternoons'
the other one's on a hunger strike
he's dying by degrees
how come Jesus gets Industrial Disease
@SONG: Love Over
Gold
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
@SONG: It Never
Rains
I hear the Seven Deadly Sins
and the Terrible Twins came to call
on you
the bigger they are babe
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
it just comes pouring down
You had no more volunteers
so you got profiteers for to help you
out
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
it just comes pouring down
And your new Romeo
was just a gigolo when he let you down
see the faster they are babe
the faster they get out of town
leaving make up stains and the tears
of a clown
yes and it never rains around here
it just comes 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
when he came around here asking after
you
in the shadow of the Wheel of Fortune
you're busy trying to clear your name
you say 'I may be guilty yeah that
may be true
but I'd be lying if I said I was to
blame
see we could have been major contenders
we never got no money no breaks'
you've got a list of all the major
offenders
you got a list of all their major mistakes
and he's just standing on the shadows
yes and you smile that come-on smile
oh I can still hear you say as clear
as the day
'I'd like to make it worth your while'
Ah but it's a sad reminder
when your organ grinder has to come
to you for the rent
and all you've got to give him
is the use of your side-show tent
yes and that's all that remains of
the years
spent doing to rounds
and it never rains around here
well it just comes pouring down
Now you know what they say about beggars
you can't complain about the rules
you know what they say about beggars
you know who's the first to blame his
tools
you never gave a damn about who you
pick up
and leave lying bleeding on the ground
you screw people over on the way up
because you thought that you were never
coming down
and he takes you out in Vaudeville
Valley
with his hand up smothering your screams
and he screws you down in Tin Pan Alley
in the city of a billion dreams
@ALBUM: making.movies
Author: Dire
Straits
Album title:
Making Movies
Minor corrections by
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--- James Anthony Peter Matthew Mark
Luke John Bowditch ---
-------------- pfgumby@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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@SONG: Tunnel
of Love
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 a 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 my 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 cake walk twisting baby
step right up and say
hey mister give me two give me two
cos any two can play
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
well it's been money for muscle another
whirligig
money for muscle and another girl I
dig
another hustle just to make it big
and rockaway rockaway
and girl it looks so pretty to me just
like it always did
like the spanish city to me when we
were kids
oh girl it looks so pretty to me just
like it always did
like the spanish city to me when we
were kids
she took off a silver locket she said
remember me by this
she put her hand in my pocket I got
a keepsake and a kiss
and in the roar of the dust and diesel
I stood and watched her walk away
I could have caught up with her easy
enough but something must have made me
stay
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
and now I'm searching through these
carousels and the carnival arcades
searching everywhere from steeplechase
to palisades
in any shooting gallery where promises
are made
to rockaway rockaway from cullercoats
and whitley bay out to rockaway
and girl it looks so pretty to me like
it always did
like the spanish city to me when we
were kids
girl it looks so pretty to me like
it always did
like the spanish city to me when we
were kids
@SONG: Romeo and
Juliet
a lovestruck romeo sings the streets
a serenade
laying everybody low with a lovesong
that he made
finds a streetlight steps out of the
shade
says something like you and me babe
how about it?
juliet says hey it's romeo you nearly
gave me a heart attack
he's underneath the window she's singing
hey la my boyfriend's back
you shoudn'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
I forget the movie song
when you gonna
realize it was just that the time was wrong juliet?
come up on different streets they both
were streets of shame
both dirty both mean yes and the dream
was just the same
and I dream your dream for you and
now your dream is real
how can you look at me as I was just
another one of your deals?
well you can fall for chains of silver
you can fall for chains of gold
you can fall for pretty strangers and
the promises they hold
you promised me everything you promised
me thick and thin
now you just say oh romeo yeah you
know I used to have a scene with him
juliet when we made
love you used to cry
you said I love
you like the stars above I'll love you till I die
there's a place
for us you know the movie song
when you gonna realize
it was just that the time was wrong?
I can't do the talk like the talk on
the tv
and I can't do a love song like the
way its meant to be
I can't do everything but I'd do anything
for you
can't do anything except be in love
with you
and all I do is miss you and the way
we used to be
all I do is keep the beat the bad company
all I do is kiss you through the bars
of Orion
julie I'd do the stars with you any
time
juliet when we made
love you used to cry
you said I love
you like the stars above Ill love you till I die
there's a place
for us you know the movie song
when you gonna realize
it was just that the time was wrong?
a lovestruck romeo sings the streets
a serenade
laying everybody low with a lovesong
that he made
finds a convenient streetlight steps
out of the shade
says something like you and me babe
how about it?
@SONG: skateaway
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
same 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 queen 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 story
was whatever was the song what it was
rollergirl
don't worry
d.j. play
the movies all night long
she tortures taxi drivers just for fun
she like to read their lips
says toro toro taxi see ya tomorrow
my son
I swear she let a big truck grease
her hip
she got her own world in the city
you can't intrude on her
she got her own world in the city
cos the city's benn so rude to her
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 story
was whatever was the song what it was
rollergirl
don't worry
d.j. play
the movies all night long
come slippin and slidin
life's roller ball
slippin and a slidin
skateaway that's all
shala shalay hey hey skateaway
she's going sining shala shalay hey
hey
skateaway
@ALBUM MONEY FOR
NOTHING -COLLECTION 1988
@SONG: Sultans
of Swing
You get a shiver in the dark
It's been 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 all right when you hear that
music ring
You step inside but you don't see too
many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the
jazz go down
Too much competition too many other
places
But not too many horns can make that
sound
Way on downsouth way on downsouth London
town
You check out Guitar George he knows
all the chords
Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't
want to make it cry or sing
And 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 honky tonk just like anything
Saving it up for Friday night
With the Sultans with the Sultans of
Swing
Amd a crowd of young boys they're fooling
around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown
baggies and their platform soles
They don't give a damn about any trumpet
playing band
It ain't what they call rock and roll
And the Sultans played Creole
And then the man he steps right up to
the microphone
And says at last just as the time bell
rings
'Thank you goodnight now it's time
to go home'
and he makes it fast with one more
thing
'We are the Sultans of Swing'
@SONG: Down to the Waterline
Sweet surrender on the quayside
You remember we used to run and hide
In the shadow of the cargoes I take
you one at a 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
@SONG: Portobello Belle
Bella donna's on the highstreet
Her breasts upon the off beat
And the stalls are just the side shows
Victoriano's old clothes
And yes her jeans are tight now
She got to travel light now
She got to turn up all her roots now
She got to turn up for 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
Do a song about a long gone Irish girl
But I got one for you Portobello Belle
She sees a man upon his back there
Escaping from a sack there
And Bella donna lingers
Her gloves aint got no fingers
The blind man says he Irish
He gets his money in a tin dish
Just a corner serinader
Upon a time he could of made her
She thinks she's tough
She ain't no English rose
But the blind singer
He's seen enough and he knows
Do a song about a long gone Irish girl
But I got one for you Portobello Belle
This time a pair a boys are hawking
And the paraket is squawking
Upon a truck there is a wino
She get the crying off the wino
And then she here the raggy rumble
Bella donna is in the jungle
But she is no garden flower
There is no distress in the tower
Bella donna walks
Bella donna taking a stroll
She don't care about your window box
or your button hole
Sing a song about a long gone Irish
girl
But I got one for you Portobello Belle
@SONG: Romeo and Juliet
a lovestruck romeo sings a streetsuss
serenade
laying everybody low with 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 shoudn'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
i forget the movie song
when you gonna
realize it was just that the time was wrong juliet?
come up on different 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
now your dream is real
how can you look at me as i was just
another one of your deals?
when you can fall for chains of silver
you can fall for chains of gold
you can fall for pretty strangers and
the promises they hold
you promised me everything you promised
me thick and thin
now you just say oh romeo yeah you
know i used to have a scene with him
juliet when we made
love you used to cry
you said i love
you like the stars above i'll love you till i die
there's a place
for us you know the movie song
when you gonna realize
it was just that the time was wrong?
i can't do the talk like they talking
on the tv
and i can't do a love song like the
way its meant to be
i can't do everything but i'd do anything
for you
i can't do anything except be in love
with you
and all i do is miss you and the way
we used to be
all i do is keep the beat and bad company
all i do is kiss you through the bars
of a rhyme
julie i'd do the stars with you any
time
juliet when we made
love you used to cry
you said i love
you like the stars above i'll love you till i die
there's a place
for us you know the movie song
when you gonna realize
it was just that the time was wrong?
a lovestruck romeo sings a streetsuss
serenade
laying everybody low with a lovesong
that he made
finds a convenient streetlight steps
out of the shade
says something like you and me babe
how about it?
@SONG: Where do you Think You're Going?
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 think you don't know
You got no way of knowing
You got no place to go
I understand your changes
How 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 joking
You know I like you to be free
Where do you think you're going
I think you'd better go with me, girl
You say there is no reason
But you still find cause to doubt me
When 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 joking
You know I like you to be free
Where do you think you're going
I think you'd better go with me, girl
@SONG: Walk of Life
Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
Be-Bop-A-Lua, 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
He got the action, he got the motion
Yeah the boy can play
Decidation devotion
Turning all the night time into the
day
And after all the violence and double
talk
There's just a song in the trouble
and the strife
You do the walk, you do the walk of
life
@SONG: Private Investigations
It's a mystery to me - the game commences
for the usual fee - plus expenses
confidential information - 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 whisky and a new set of
lies
blinds on the windows and a pain behind
the eyes
Scarred for life - nocompensation
private investigations
@SONG: Money for Nothing
Now look at them yo-yo's that's the
way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain't workin' that's the way you
do it
Money for nothin' and 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 colour TV's
See the little faggot with the earring
and the makeup
Yeah buddy that's his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet
airplane
That little faggot he's a millionaire
We gotta install microwave ovesns
Custom kitchens deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour TV'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?
Bangin' on the bongoes like a chimpanzee
That ain't workin' that's the way you
do it
Get your money for nothin' get your
chicks for free
We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour TV's, Lord
Now that ain't workin' that's the way
you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain't workin' that's the way you
do it
Money for nothin' and your chicks for
free
Money for nothin' and chicks for free
@SONG: Tunnel of Love
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 a 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 my
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 cake walk twisting baby
step right up and say
hey mister give me two give me two
cos any two can play
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
well it's been money for muscle another
whirligig
money for muscle and another girl i
dig
another hustle just to make it big
and rockaway rockaway
and girl it looks so pretty to me just
like it always did
like the spanish city to me when we
were kids
oh girl it looks so pretty to me just
like it always did
like the spanish city to me when we
were kids
she took off a silver locket she said
remember me by this
she put her hand in my pocket i got
a keepsake and a kiss
and in the roar of the dust and diesel
i stood and watched her walk away
i could have caught up with her easy
enough but something must have made me
stay
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
and now i'm searching through these
carousels and the carnival arcades
searching everywhere from steeplechase
to palisades
in any shooting gallery where promises
are made
to rockaway rockaway from cullercoats
and whitley bay out to rockaway
and girl it looks so pretty to me like
it always did
like the spanish city to me when we
were kids
girl it looks so pretty to me like
it always did
like the spanish city to me when we
were kids
@SONG: Brothers in Arms
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
@ALBUM: Communique
Lyrics and music:
Mark Knopfler
Phonogram, Vertigo
800 052-2
Notes:
1) The title should really be Communiqu{'e},
i.e., ending with a "e"
having an accent aigu.
The same goes for the fourth song.
2) I don't know the source of the first
seven songs. The original
archive was truncated
there. The last two song was transscribed
by Morten Welinder (terra@diku.dk)
and checked with the lyrics
printed in *new* CD-releases.
3) Group members are
Mark Knopfler
(vocals, lead & rhythm guitars)
David Knopfler
(rhythm guitar & vocals)
John Illsley
(bass & vocals)
Pick Withers
(drums)
Extra musician
B. Bear (keyboards)
@SONG: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
Some people get a cheap laugh breaking
up the speed limit
Scaring up pedestrians for a minute
Crossing up the progress driving on
the grass
Leaving just enough for room to pass
Sunday driver never took a test
Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west
Yes, and it's no use saying that you
don't know nothing
Still gonna get you if don't do something
Sitting on the fence that's a dangerous
course
You can even catch a bullet from the
peace keeping force
Even a hero gets a bullet in the chest
Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west
I want to marry your children Mrs. Lauden
Some of your mothers ought to lock
up your daughters
Who's protecting the innocent team
A heap of trouble in the land of plenty
Tell me how we're gonna do what's best
You guessed, once upon a time in the
west
Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west...
@SONG: NEWS
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 guns
He take the road as it comes
It takes the shine off his shoes
He's too fast to stop
He take it over the top
He make a line in the news
@SONG: WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING
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 think that 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 joking
You 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 joking
You know I like you to be free
So where do you think you're going?
I think you better go with me girl
@SONG: COMMUNIQUE
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 to worry with the previous
release
Right now, 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
@SONG: LADY WRITER
Lady writer on the TV
Talk about the Virgin Mary
Reminded me of you
Expectation left a come on too
Lady writer on the TV
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
And I recall my fall from grace
Another time another place
Lady writer on the TV
She had all her brains and the beauty
The pictures does not fit
You'd talk to me when you felt like
this
Just the way that her hair fell down
around her face
And I recall my fall from grace
Another time another place
Your rich old man,
You know he'd a call her a dead wringer
You got the same command
Plus your mother was a mess in life
Just the way that her hair fell down
around her face
And I recall my fall from grace
Another time another place
Lady writer on the TV
She knew all about history
You couldn't hardly write your name
I think I want it just the same
Lady writer on the TV
Talking about the Virgin Mary
You know I'm talking about you and
me
Lady writer on the TV
@SONG: ANGEL OF MERCY
Well there's a Peter Pan moon shepard's
delight
I got to drag in at noon and won the
fight
I want my reward in heaven tonight
Just like you promised
Angel of Mercy you'll come to no harm
Angel of Mercy there's no need for
alarm
The knight in his armor wants a night
in your arms
You know he's honest
Angel of Mercy angel delight
Give me my reward in heaven tonight
And if I give up my sword won't you
give me the right sweet angel
Well now it's too late for talking we
can talk later on
Let the saxophone play us until the
chorus of dawn
All I need is a little oblivion
You don't need protection
Here comes the moonlight down on your
bed
Angel of mercy let your heart rule
your head
I don't want your money I want you
instead
Don't need rejection
Angel of Mercy angel delight
Give me my reward in heaven tonight
And if I give up my sword won't you
give me the right
Angel of Mercy give me heaven tonight
Well if you cross your heart and spit
And swear upon the grave of your mother
You got to get in the hit
Tell me that I'm your all night lover
Angel of Mercy angel delight
Give me my reward in heaven tonight
And if I give up my sword won't you
give me the right
Angel of Mercy give me heaven tonight
Angel of Mercy angel delight
Give me my reward in heaven tonight
And if I give up my sword won't you
give me the right
Angel of Mercy give me heaven tonight
@SONG: PORTOBELLO BELLE
Belladonna's on the high street
Her breasts upon the offbeat
And the stalls are just the side shows
Victoriana's old clothes
Yeah she got the skirt so tight now
She wanna travel light now
She wanna tear 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
He do a song about a long gone Irish
girl
But I got one for you my Portobello
Belle
She sees a man upon his back there
Escaping from a sack there
And Belladonna lingers
Her gloves they got no fingers
Blind man he's singing the Irish
He gets his money in a tin dish
Just a corner serenader
Once 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
He do a song about a long gone Irish
girl
But I got one for you my Portobello
Belle
Yes and these barrow boys are hawking
And a parakeet is squawking
Upon a truck a paper rhino
She get the crying of a wino
And then she get the reggae rumble
Belladonna's in the jungle
But she ain't no garden flower
There ain't no distress in the tower
Belladonna walks
Belladonna taking control
She don't care about your window box
Or your button hole
She sing a song about a long gone Irish
girl
But I got one for you my Portobello
Belle
@SONG: SINGLE HANDED SAILOR
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
Around the Cutty Sark
Yeah the single handed sailor goes
sailing
Sailing away in the dark
@SONG: FOLLOW ME HOME
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
@ALBUM: brothers.in.arms
Author: Dire
Straits
Album title:
Brothers in Arms
@SONG: So Far
Away
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 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
@SONG: Money for
Nothing
Now look at them yo-yo's that's the
way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain't workin' that's the way you
do it
Money for nothin' and 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 colour TV's
See the little faggot with the earring
and the makeup
Yeah buddy that's his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet
airplane
That little faggot he's a millionaire
We gotta install microwave ovesns
Custom kitchens deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour TV'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?
Bangin' on the bongoes like a chimpanzee
That ain't workin' that's the way you
do it
Get your money for nothin' get your
chicks for free
We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour TV's, Lord
Now that ain't workin' that's the way
you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain't workin' that's the way you
do it
Money for nothin' and your chicks for
free
Money for nothin' and chicks for free
@SONG: Walk of
Life
Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
Be-Bop-A-Lua, 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
He got the action, he got the motion
Yeah the boy can play
Decidation devotion
Turning all the night time into the
day
And after all the violence and double
talk
There's just a song in the trouble
and the strife
You do the walk, you do the walk of
life
@SONG: Your Latest
Trick
All the late night bargains have been
struck
Between the satin beaus and their belles
And prehistoric garbage trucks
Have the city to themselves
Echoes 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
down Lover's Lane
And you never did have the inteligence
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 for alcohol
Past recall has been here and gone
The landlord finally paid us all
The satin jazzmen have put away their
horns
And we're standing outside of this
wonderland
Looking so bereaved and so bereft
Like a Bowery bum when he finally understands
The bottle's empty and there's nothing
left
I don't know how it happened
It was faster than the eye could flick
But not all I can do is hand it to
you
And your latest trick
@SONG: Why Worry
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 grey
Why worry, there should be laughter
after the pain
There should be sunshine after rain
These things have always been the same
So 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 shining red and gold
And all the rest is by the way
Why worry, there should be laughter
after pain
There should be sunsh
ine after rain
These things have always been the same
So why worry now
@SONG: Ride Across
the River
I'm a soldier of freedom in the army
of man
We are the chosen, we're the partisan
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
name
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 becomes 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
@SONG: The Man's
too Strong
I'm just and ageing 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 her my confession
I have legalised robbery
Called it a belief
I have run with the money
And hid like a theif
I have re-written history
With my 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 have tried to be meek
And I have tried to be mild
But I spat like a woman
And sulked like a child
I have lived behind walls
That have made me alone
Striven for peace
Which I have never 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 they all did hear him say
'You always were a Judas
But I got you anyway
You may have got your silver
But I swear upon my life
Your sister gave me diamonds
And I gave them to your wife'
Oh father please help me
For I have done wrong
The man's too big
The man's too strong
@SONG: One World
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
@SONG: Brothers
in Arms
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
Author: Dire Straits
Album title:
on every street
(note: all lyrics on the album are in
lowercase)
calling elvis
------- -----
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 can he come to the phone
calling elvis - I'm here all alone
on every street
-- ----- ------
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 expode
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
when it comes
to you
---- -- -----
-- ---
if we can't get along we oughta be apart
and I'm wondering where'd you get that
cold, cold heart
set me free - sign my release
I'm tired of being the villain of the
peace
you been giving me a bad time
tell me what I'd do
how come I always get a hard time
honey when it comes to you
sayin' things that you didn't have
to
how come I always get a hard time
honey when it comes to you
you only get one life - this I know
I wanna get my licks in now before
I go
the fire of love is dead and cold
I gotta satisfy the hunger in my soul
and you been giving me a bad time
tell me what I'd do
how come I always get a hard time
honey when it comes to you
sayin' things that you didn't have
to
how come I always get a hard time
honey when it comes to you
fade to black
---- -- -----
I wonder where you are tonight
you're probably on the rampage somewhere
you have been known to take delight
in gettin' in somebody's hair
and you always had the knack
fade to black
I bet you already made a pass
I see a darkened room somewhere
you run your finger round the rim of
his glass
run your fingers through his hair
they scratch across his back
fade to black
well maybe it's all for the best
but I wish I'd never been lassooed
maybe it's some kind of test
I wish I'd never been tattooed
or been to hell and back
fade to black
the bug
--- ---
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 breaks
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 to 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 to lose it all
one day you got the glory
one day you got none
one day you're a diamond
and then you're a stone
everything can change
in the blink of an eye
so let the good times roll
before we say goodbye, 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 to lose it all
you and your friend
--- --- ----
------
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
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
I relive the situation
still see in in my mind
you got my imagination
working overtime
heavy fuel
----- ----
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
iron hand
---- ----
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 marched forward
in time
the wood and the 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 the chestnut flank
the cavalry did burst upon the ranks
oh the iron will and the 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 for yore
the same old fears and the same old
crimes
we haven't changed since ancient times
ticket to heaven
------ -- ------
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 ticket to heaven
and everlasting life
all the way to paradise
my parties
-- -------
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 a genuine weathervane - it moves
with the breeze
portable hammok baby - 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 its own telephone
that's a 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 o.k.
in my book
here, take a sip - maybe a little heavy
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 spike 'em - say,
did you try these?
so glad you like 'em - the secret's
in the cheese
it's casual entertaining - we aim to
please
at my parties
now don't talk to me about the polar
bear
don't talk to me about the ozone layer
ain't much of anything these days,
even the air
they're running out of rhinos - what
do I care?
let's hear it for the dolphin - let's
hear it for the trees
ain't running out of nothing in my
deep freeze
it's casual entertaining - we aim to
please
at my parties
the planet of
new orleans
--- ------ --
--- -------
standin' in the corner
of toulouse and dauphine
waitin' on marie-ondine
I'm tryin' 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 somethin' that she said in a dream
inside of my suit I got my mojo root
and a true love figurine
for the planet of new orleans
new orleans - the other planet
with other life upon it
and everythin' that's shakin' in between
if you should ever land upon it
you better know what's on it
the planet of new orleans
now I'm tryin' to find my way
through the rain and the steam
I'm lookin' straight ahead through
the screen
and then I heard her say
somethin' 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 back to her courtyard
where magnolia perfume screams
behind the gates and the granite
of the planet of new orleans
how long
--- ----
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 hands 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 you wake up
and find a good man gone - how long
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