Dire Straits







Dire Straits Albums :

Dire Straits   1978
Communique   1979
Making Movies  1980
Love Over Gold  1982
Alchemy ( live )  1982
Brothers In Arms  1985


Musicians :

Barry Beckett
Roy Bittan
Michael Brecker
Randy Brecker
Alan Clark
Mel Collins
Guy Fletcher
Omar Hakim
John Illsley
David Knophler
Mark Knophler - author
Joop de Korte
Hal Lindes
Jimmy Maelen
Mike Mainieri
Tommy Mandel
Sting
Terry Williams
Pick Withers













Sultans Of Swing - 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
They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band
It ain't what they call rock and roll
And the Sultans play 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 make it fast with one more thing
'We are the Sultans of Swing'

1978 Phonogram Ltd. ( London )







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 your own 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 foghorm 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

1978 Phonogram Ltd. ( London )

Portobello Belle - June 1983

Belladonna's on the night street
Her brests 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 tought
She ain't no English rose
But the blind singer
He's seen enough and he knows
He do a song about along-time 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 get the money in the tin dish
Just a corner serenader
Ones upon a time he could have made her
She thinks she's tought
She ain't no English rose
But the blind singer
He's seen enough and he knows
He do a song about along-time Irish girl
But I got one for you my Portobello Belle

Yes and these barrow boys are howking
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 talking control
She don't care about your window box
Or you button hole
She sing a song about a long-gone Irish girl
But I got one for you my Portobello Belle

1988 Phonogram Ltd. ( London )


Romeo And Juliet

A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade
Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made
Finds a convenient streetlights steps out of the shade
Says something like you and me baby 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 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 for you and now your dream is real

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 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 Juliet ?

I can't do the talk like they talk on TV
And I can't do a love song like the way it's 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 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 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 Juliet ?

A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade
Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made
Finds a convenient streetlights steps out of the shade
Says something like you and me baby how about it ?

1980 Phonogram Ltd. ( London )






Twisting By The Pool - October 1982

We're going on a holiday now
Gonna take a villa, a small charlet
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 gonna be out of reach
There's a call-box on the beach

Mmm, you're gonna look 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 a twisting fool
Just twisting, yeah, twisting
Twisting by the pool









Where Do You Think You're Going - November 1978

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
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
Where do you think you're going ?
I think you better go with me girl

1979 Phonogram Ltd. ( London )











Walk of life - December 1984

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, try 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 my walking shoes
Here comes Johnny with the power and the glory
Backbeat the talking' 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, try 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

And after all the violence and double talk
There's just song in all the trouble and the strife
You do the walk, you do the walk of life

1985 Phonogram Ltd. ( London )




Private Investigations - may 1982

It's a mystery to me - the game commences
For the usual fee - plus expenses
Confidential information - it's in a diary
This is my investigations - 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.

1982 Phonogram Ltd. ( London )

Money For Nothing - December 1984

Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain't working - that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and chicks for free
Now that ain't working - 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 make-up
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 ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour TV's

I shoulda learn to play the guitars
I shoulda learn to play them drums
Look at that mama, she got it stickin' in the camera
Man we can 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

Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain't working - that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and chicks for free
Money for nothin' and chicks for free

1985 Phonogram Ltd. ( London )

Tunnel Of Love - July 1980

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 were 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 victum 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 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 cakewalk twisting baby step right up and say
Hey mister give me two give me two cos 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 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 keepsake and a kiss
And in the roar of 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 Cullercoasts and Whitley Bay out to 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

1980 Phonogram Ltd. ( London )




Brothers In Arms - December 1984

This 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 arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptism of fire
I've watched all your suffering
As the battle raged higher
And though the did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not deserve 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 in your arm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

1985 Phonogram Ltd. ( London )
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    і є D I R E   S T R A I T S є і
      ИНННННННННННННННННННННННННј і
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     ЙНННННННННННННННННН»
     є Brothers in Arms є
     ИННННННННННННННННННј
ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і So Far Away і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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 fr^Oom 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

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і Money for Nothing і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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 d^Oo 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 oves^Ons
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

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і Walk of Life і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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 acti^Oon, 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 s^Oong in the trouble and the strife
You do the walk, you do the walk of life

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і Your Latest Trick і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДї
і Why Worry і
АДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і Ride Across the River і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і The Man's too Strong і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДї
і One World і
АДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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 harmon^Yy
Can't get no antidote for blues

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і Brothers in Arms і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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

     ЙННННННННННННННННН»
     є On Every Street є 1991
     ИНННННННННННННННННј


      Dire Straits

    Brothers in Arms

     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 fr^Oom 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

     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 d^Oo 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 oves^Ons
     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

     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 acti^Oon, 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 s^Oong in the trouble and the strife
     You do the walk, you do the walk of life

     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 most of 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

     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

     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

     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

     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 harmon^Yy
     Can't get no antidote for blues

     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
           ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДД
    і ЙННННННННННННННННННННННННН»
    і є D I R E   S T R A I T S є і
      ИНННННННННННННННННННННННННј і
 ДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
     ЙНННННННННННН»
     є Communique є
     ИННННННННННННј
ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і Once Upon a Time in the West і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
Some people get a cheep laugh breaking up the speed limit
Scaring the pedestrians for a minute
Crossing up the progress driving on the grass
Leaving just enough room to pass
Sunday driver never took a test
Once upon a time in the west

It's no use saying that you don't know nothing
Still gonna get you if you don't do something
Sitting on the fence that's a dangerous course
You could even catch a bullet from the peace keeping force
Even a hero gets a bullet in the chest
Once upon a time in the west

I want to marry your children Mrs. Louden
Some of you mother's should 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
Once upon a time in the west
Once upon a time in the west

ЪДДДДДДї
і News і
АДДДДДДЩ
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 neet

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

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і Where do you Think You're Going? і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і Communique і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і Lady Writer і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і Angel of Mercy і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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 saxaphone 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

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і Portobello Belle і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і Single-Handed Sailor і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
Two in the morning dry dock town
The river rolled away in the night
Little gypsy mom she's all tied down
She quiver in the wind down the light
The sailing ship is just held with chains
































  On Every Street       Dire Straits 91







  Contents:

   1.  Calling Elvis
   2.  On Every Street
   3.  When It Comes To You
   4.  Fade To Black
   5.  The Bug
   6.  You And Your Friend
   7.  Heavy Fuel
   8.  Iron Hand
   9.  Ticket To Heaven
   10. My Parties
   11. Planet Of New Orleans
   12. How Long































 1. 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 don't be cruel
   Return to sender - heart 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

   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 don't be cruel
   Return to sender - heart me like a fool


 2. On Every Street

   There's gotta be a record of you someplace
   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 concerte
   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 crashed 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


 3. When It Comes To You

   If we can't get along we oughtta 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 givin' me a bad time
   Tell me what'd I 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 givin' me a bad time
   And you been givin' me a bad time


 4. 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
   You run your finger 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
   But I wish I'd never been tattooed
   Or been to hell and back
   Fade to black


 5. 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 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 shigger
   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
   And it all goes wrong, because

   One day you got the glory
   Then you got none
   One day you're 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
   Before we say goodbye, because


 6. 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
   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
   So I can make my plans
   So I can make my plans

   I relive the situation
   Still see it in my mind
   You got my imagination
   Working overtime


 7. 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 the major kicks
   Get me in a fight I like dirty tricks
   '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 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 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
   If you wanna run cool, you got to run
   On heavy, heavy fuel


 8. 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 staight 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 gran so green
   The gleam of spur on 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 shemeful scene
   That night they said it had even shocked the queen

   Well alas we're seen it all before
   Knights in amour, days of yore
   The same old fears and the same old crimes
   We haven't changed since ancient times


 9. 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

   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 wint the diamond ring
   They're tuning in across the land
   To hear him sing
   To hear him sing


 10. My Parties

   Well this is my back - 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 frees
   It's casnal entertainig - 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 bran 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 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 many kiss the cook
   Let me show 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 about the polar bear
   Don't talk to me about ozone layer
   Ain't so much of anything these days, even the air
   They're running out of rhinos - what do I care?
   Let's hear it for the dolpin - let's hear it for the trees
   Ain't runnin' out of nothin' in my deep freeze
   It's casual entertaining - we aim to please
   At my parties


 11. Planet Of New Orleans

   Standin' on 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'd 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 talkin' 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 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


 12. 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 your good man gone - how long




   Produced by :
      Mark Knopler,
      John Illsley,
      Alan Clark,
      Guy  Fletcher.
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і Down to the Waterline і
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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

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і Water of Love і
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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

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і Setting Me Up і
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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

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і Six Blade Knife і
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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

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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'

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і In the Gallery і
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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

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і Wild West End і
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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

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і Lions і
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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.


      Dire Straits

     Love Over Gold

     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
     he made a home in the west
     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 and 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've 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 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 here 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

     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

     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 Bette 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 so they can keep us on our knees
     they wanna have a war so they can 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 out on hunger strick he's dying by degrees
     how come Jesus gets Industrial Disease

     Love Over Gold
     ---- ---- ----

     You walk out on the high wire
     you're a dance 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

     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
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і Tunnel of Love і
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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

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і Romeo and Juliet і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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?

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДї
і skateaway і
АДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і expresso love і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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 my world
    is this just expresso love
    you know i'm 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
she says boys don't know anything
but i know what i want
i want everything

    and she was made in heaven
    heaven's in my world
    is this just expresso love
    you know i'm crazy for the girl

well i feel so good cos i feel so good
and i feel so good cos it feels so right
i was made to go with my girl
like a saxaphone was made to go with the night

and she can raise one eybrow
put her hand on my hip
and i close one eye now
sweat on her lip
and i surrender to the fever
i will surrender to the will of the night
she love me so tender i got to believe her
love?  expresso love's alright

    and she was made in heaven
    heaven's in my world
    is this just expresso love
    you know i'm crazy for the girl

i don't want no sugar in it
thank you very much
all wired up on it  all fired up on it
expresso touch
hey maestro expresso
it's just another one just like the other one
hey maestro expresso
is this another one just like the other one

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і hand in hand і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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?

    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

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 line
now it's another dirty river and another dirty scar
and i don't know who's kissing you and i don't know where you are
so far from home  don't you think of me sometime

    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

sky is crying see the streets are full of tears
rain coming down to wash away my fears
and all this writing on the wall
oh i can read between the lines

ЪДДДДДДДДДДДДї
і solid rock і
АДДДДДДДДДДДДЩ
well take a look at that
i made a castle in the sand
sayting 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

    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 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 together
yeah they're gonna stick together

because the heart that 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 pointing back at you

    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
    i'm solid rock now

ЪДДДДДДДДДДї
і les boys і
АДДДДДДДДДДЩ
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 business men
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 takes a photograph
les boys don't get one laugh
he says they're useless

late at night when they've 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