01-ANGEL OF MERCY – Mi M

Dire Straits

 

Well there's a Peter Pan moon shepherd's delight

I got to dragon at noon, yes and I won the fight

Now 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 till the chorus of dawn

And all I need is a little oblivion,

you don't need protection

 

Well now here come 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 yeah

 

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 into it, you gotta

tell me that I'm more than a lover

 

CHORUS

 

CHORUS

 

CHORUS

02-COMMUNIQUE – Si m

Dire Straits

 

They wanna get a statement

for Jesus' sake
It's like a 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 means

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

 

CHORUS

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

CHORUS

03-EXPRESSO LOVE – Re m

Dire Straits

 

She gets the sun in the daytime
perfume in the dusk
and she comes out in the night time
with the honeysuckle musk

 
because she smells just like a rose
and she tastes just like a peach
she got me walking where the wildlife goes
I'd do anything to reach her

and she was made in heaven
heaven's in the world
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

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 saxophone was made to go with the night

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

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.

04-MONEY FOR NOTHING – C1 Fa# m
Dire Straits

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 color 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 millionaire

 

We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these color 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 color 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' get your chicks for free

Money for nothin' get chicks for free

05-LADY WRITER – La M

Dire Straits

 

Lady Writer on the TV
Talk about the Virgin Mary
Reminded me of you
Expectations left to come up to yeah

Lady writer on the TV
Yeah, she had another quality
The way you used to look
And I know you never read a book

Just the way that her hair fell down around her face
Then I recall my fall from grace
Another time,

another place

Lady writer on the TV
She had all the brains and the beauty
The picture does not fit
You talked to me when you felt like it

Just the way that her hair fell down around her face
Then I recall my fall from grace
Another time,

another place

 

Yes and your rich old man
You know he'd call her a dead ringer
You got the same command
Plus you mother was a jazz singer

Just the way that her hair fell down around her face
Then I recall my fall from grace
Another time,

another place

Lady writer on the TV
She knew all about a history
You couldn't hardly write your name
I think I want you just the same as the

Lady writer on the TV
Talking about the Virgin Mary
Yeah you know I'm talking about you and me
And the lady writer on the TV

Lady writer on the TV
Talking about the Virgin Mary
Yeah you know I'm talking about you and me
And the lady writer on the TV

06-MAN’S TOO STRONG – Re m

Dire Straits

 

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 hear 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.

07-ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST – La m

Dire Straits

 

Some people get a cheap laugh

breaking up the speed limit
Scaring the pedestrians

for a minute

Crossing up progress

driving on the grass
Leaving just enough for room

to pass

 
Sunday driver

never took a test
Oh yeah,

once upon a time in the west

Yes, it's no use saying

that you don't know nothing
It's still gonna get you

if don't do something

Sitting on a fence

that's a dangerous course
Oh, you could even catch a bullet

from the peace-keeping force

 

Even the hero

gets a bullet in the chest
Oh yeah,

once upon a time in the west

 

Guitar break

Mother Mary

your children are slaughtered
Some of you mothers

ought to lock up your daughters

Who's protecting

the innocent say
Heap big trouble

in the land of plenty

 
Tell me how we're gonna do

what's best
You guess

once upon a time in the west

Once upon a time in the west...

08-RIDE ACROSS THE RIVER – Mi m

Dire Straits

 

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

 

Guitar break

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.

09-SOLID ROCK – Re M

Dire Straits

 

Well take a look at that
i made a castle in the sand
saying this is where it's 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
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.

10-SULTANS OF SWING – Re m

Dire Straits

 

You get a shiver in the dark,
It's a raining in the park

but meantime
South of the river you stop

and you hold everything
A band is blowing dixie, double four time
You feel alright when you hear the music ring

Well now you step inside

but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain

they hear the jazz go down
Competition in other places
Uh but the horns they blowin' that sound

Way on downsouth
Way on downsouth
London town

Check out guitar George,

he knows-all the chords
Mind he's strictly rhythm

he doesn't wanna make them cry or sing
They said an old guitar is all - he can afford
when he gets up under the lights to play his thing

 

And harry doesn't mind –

if he doesn't, make the scene
He's got a daytime job, he's doing alright
He can play the honky tonk like anything
Savin' it up, for friday night

With the sultans
We're the sultans of swing

Then a crowd a young boys

they're a foolin' around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown

baggies and their platform soles
They don't give a damn

about any trumpet playin' band
It ain't what they call rock and roll

Then the sultans
Yeah the sultans they play creole,

creole
And then the man he steps right up to the microphone
and says at last just as the time bell rings
Goodnight, now it's time to go home
and he makes it fast with one more thing
We are the sultans
We are the sultans of swing

11-WALK OF LIFE – Mi M

Dire Straits

 

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

Oh 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

And he do the walk, he do the walk of life

Yeah, he do the walk of life

Here comes Johnny goin' tell you the story

Hand me down my 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

And he do the walk, he do the walk of life

Yeah, 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

And after all the violence and double talk

There's just a song in all the trouble and the strife

You do the walk, you do the walk of life

Hm, you do the walk of life

12-YOUR LATEST TRICK – Mi M

Dire Straits

 

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 intelligence to use
The twelve keys hanging off my chain

 

I don't know how it happened
It all took place so quick
But all I can do is hand it to you
And your latest trick

Now it's past last call 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.

13-TUNNEL OF LOVE – Re m

Dire Straits

 

Getting crazy on the waltzers

but it's the life that I choose

Sing about the six blade sing about

the switchback and a torture tattoo

 

And I been riding on a ghost train

where the cars they scream and slam

And I don't know where I'll be tonight

but I'd always tell you where I am

 

In a screaming ring of faces

I seen her standing in the light

She had a ticket for the races

just like me she was a victim of the night

 

I put my hand upon the lever

said let it rock and let it roll

I had the one arm bandit fever

there was an arrow through my heart and 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 'cause 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

14-PORTOBELLO BELLE – Fa M

Dire Straits

 

Belladonna's on the high street

Her breasts up on the offbeat

And the stalls are just the side shows

Victoriana's old clothes

 

Yeah she got the skirt so tight now

She want to travel light now

She want to 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 of 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 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 of for you my Portobello Belle

 

Yes and these barrow boys are hawking

And a parakeet is squawking

Upon a truck 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

15-DOWN TO THE WATERLINE – Si m

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

 

Guitar solo

 

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

 

Guitar solo

 

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

16-LES BOYS – Re M

Dire Straits

 

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

Up on 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 and M these days

It's all in fun now.

 

Les boys come on again

For the high class whores

And the businessmen

Who drive in their

Mercedes-Benz

To a disco bar

in old München.

 

They get the jokes that the DJ makes

They get nervous and they make mistakes

They're bad for business

 

Some tourist take a photograph

Les boys don't get one laugh

He says they're used to it.

 

Les boys come on again

For the high class whores

And the businessmen

Who drive in their

Mercedes-Benz

To a disco bar

in old München.

 

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.

17-SKATEAWAY – Re M

Dire Straits

 

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 curbside 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

Enchanté. What can I say?

Don't care at all!

 

She tortures taxi drivers just for fun

She like to read their lips

Says: "Toro, toro, taxi. See ya tomorrow my son"

So, she let a big truck graze her hip

 

She got her own world in the city

You can't intrude on her, no, oh no

She got her own world in the city

Cos the city's been 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

on 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, all night long

 

Come slippin and a slidin

Life's a rollerball

Slippin and a slidin

Skateaway that's all

Shala shalay hey hey skateaway

She's singing shala shalay hey hey

Skateaway

18-WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING? – La m

Dire Straits

 

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

 

BREAK guitar

 

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

 

BREAK guitar

 

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

 

Short guitar solo

 

Where do you think you're going?

Don't you know it's dark outside?

Where do you think you're going?

I wish I didn't 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

 

Speedin' up Guitar solo

19-NEWS – Mi m

Dire Straits

 

He sticks to his guns

he take the road as it comes

It take the shine off his shoes

 

He says it's a shame

You know it may be a game

Ah but I won't play to loose

 

He's burning the grass

Ha take up a glass

He swallow it neat

 

He crosses the floor

he open the door

He take a sniff of the street

 

And then she tell him that he's crazy

She's a-saying hey baby

I'm your wife

 

Yeah she tell him that he's crazy

For gambling a-with his life

 

 

But he climbs on his horse

You know he feel no remorse

he just kicks it alive

 

His motor is fine

He take it over the line

Until he's ready to dive

 

guitar break

 

And she tell him that he's crazy

Yes she's saying listen baby

I'm your wife

 

Yeah she tell him that he's crazy

For gambling with his life

 

He sticks to his guns

He take the road as it comes

It take the shine off his shoes

 

He say it's a shame

You know it may be a game

Ah but I won't play to loose

 

He sticks to his guns

He take the road as it comes

It take the shine off his shoes

 

He's too fast to stop

He take it over the top

He make a line in the news

20-ONE WORLD – Mi m

Dire Straits

 

Can't get no sleeves for my records

Can't get no laces for my shoes

Can't get no fancy notes on my blue guitar

I can't get no antidote for

 

Blues

Blues

 

Can't find the reasons for your actions

Or I don't much like the reasoning you use

Somehow your motives are impure

Somehow I can't find the cure

Can't get no antidote for

 

Blues

Blues

 

y 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

 

Oh yeah

Ah yeah

Blues

 

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

Blues

21-LOVE OVER GOLD – Fa M

Dire Straits

 

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 knowledge of your sin,

You throw your love to all the strangers,

And caution to the wind.

 

break

 

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.

 

break

 

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.

22-CALLING ELVIS – Si m

Dire Straits

 

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

Treat me like a fool.

 

Calling Elvis

Is anybody home?

Calling Elvis

I'm here all alone

Did he leave the building?

Can he come to the phone?

 

Calling Elvis

I'm here all alone

Alright

 

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.

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

Treat me like a fool.

23-FADE TO BLACK – Re m

Dire Straits

 

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 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 lassoed

Maybe it's some kind of test

But I wish I'd never been tattooed

Or been to hell and back

Fade to black

 

24-HOW LONG – Re M

Dire Straits

 

How long, how long baby

How long has it been

How long you gonna keep me wondering

How long before you see

Stallin' me was wrong

How long

 

How long, how long you gonna keep

Slappin' my hand away

How long you gonna keep my love at bay

How long before you're sure

My love is strong

How long

 

How long, how long you gonna keep

Tellin' me you like me fine

How long until I'm gonna make you mine

How long before you wake up

And find your good man gone

How long

25-IRON HAND – Si m

Dire Straits

 

With all the clarity of dream

The sky so blue, the grass so green

The rank and file and the navy blue

The deep and strong, the straight and true

 

The blue line they got the given sign

The belts and boots march forward in time

The wood and leather the club and shield

Swept like a wave across the battlefield

 

Now with all the clarity of dream

The blood so red, the grass so green

The gleam of spur on chestnut flank

The cavalry did burst upon the ranks

 

Oh the iron will and iron hand

In England's green and pleasant land

No music for the shameful scene

That night they said it had even shocked the queen

 

Well alas we've seen it all before

Knights in armour, days of yore

The same old fears and the same old crimes

We haven't changed since ancient times

 

26-SOUTHBOUND AGAIN – La m

Dire Straits

 

Southbound again

Don't know if I'm going or leaving home

Southbound again

Don't know if I'm going or leaving home

 

Boy got to be moving,

seems like the boy is bound to roam

 

Every single time

roll across the rolling River Tyne

Every single time

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

Southbound again

Last night I felt like crying

 

Right now I'm sick of living

but I'm going to keep on trying

27-IN THE GALLERY – C1 La m

Dire Straits

 

Harry made a bareback rider

Proud and free upon a horse

And a fine coal-miner

For the NCB that was

 

A fallen angel

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 in clay and stone

Like the waves coming to the shore

It was in his blood and in his bones

 

He was ignored by all trendy boys in London

Yes and in Leeds

He might as well have been making toys

Or strings of beads

 

He couldn't be

No, he couldn't be

In the gallery

No, no

In the gallery

 

And then you get an artist

Says he doesn't want to paint at all

 

He takes an empty canvas

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 gonna to be

Who's gonna 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

Obscurity

And now all the vultures

Are coming down from the tree

He's going to be

He's going to be

In the gallery

Got a gallery on

In the gallery

 

Harry made a bareback rider

Bareback rider

28-SINGLE HANDED SAILOR – Re m

Dire Straits

 

Guitar

 

Two in the morning dry-dock town

The river rolls in the night

Little gypsy moth she's all tied down

She quiver in the wind and the light

 

Yeah and a sailing ship

is just held down in chains

From the lazy days of sail

She's just a lying there in silent pain

He lean on the tourist rail

 

A mother and her baby and the college of war

In the concrete graves

You never wanna fight against the river law

Nobody rules the waves

 

Yeah and on a night

 when the lazy wind is a-wailing

Around the Cutty Sark

The single handed sailor goes sailing

Sailing away in the dark

 

guitar

 

He's upon the bridge on the self same night

The mariner of dry dock land

Two in the morning but there's one green light

And a man on a barge of sand

 

She's gonna slip away below him

Away from the things he's done

But he just shouts 'hey man

what you call this thing'

He could have said 'Pride of London'

 

On a night when the lazy wind is a-wailing

Around the Cutty Sark

Yeah the single handed sailor goes sailing

      Sailing away in the dark

29-SO FAR AWAY – Mi M

Dire Straits

 

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

 

You're so far away from me

So far I just can't see

You're so far away from me

You're so far away from me, all right

 

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

'Cause you're so far away from me

 

You're so far away from me

So far I just can't see

You're so far away from me

You're so far away from me, all right

 

And I get so tired when I have to explain

When you're so far away from me

See you've been in the sun and I've been in the rain

And you're so far away from me

 

You're so far away from me

So far I just can't see

You're so far away from me

You're so far away from me

 

Far away from me

You're so far away from me

You're so far

You're so far away from me

You're so far away from me

So far away from me

You're so far

You're so far away from me

You're so far away from me

You're so far

You're so far away from me

You're so far away from me

You're so far away from me

You're so far away from me

You're so far

You're so far away from me

You're so far away from me

You're so far

You're so far

You're just so far away from me

30-WATER OF LOVE – Re m

Dire Straits

 

High and dry in the long hot day

Lost and lonely every way

Got the flats all around me sky up above

Yes I need a little water of love

 

I've been too and long lonely and my heart feels pain

Crying out for some soothing rain

I believe I have taken enough

Yes I need a little water of love

 

Water of love deep in the ground

But there ain't no water here to be found

Some day baby when the river runs free

It's gonna carry that water of love to me

 

There's a bird up in a tree sitting up high

Just waiting for me to die

If I don't get some water soon

I'll be dead and gone in the afternoon

 

Water of love deep in the ground

But there ain't no water here to be found

Some day baby when the river runs free

It's gonna carry that water of love to me

 

Once I had a woman I could call my own

Once I had a woman now my woman she gone

Once there was a river now there's a stone

You know it's evil then you're living alone

 

Water of love deep in the ground

But there ain't no water here to be found

Some day baby when the river runs free

It's gonna carry that water of love to me, carry that

 

Water of love deep in the ground

But there ain't no water here to be found

Some day baby when the river runs free

It's gonna carry that water of love to me

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