Dire Straits

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

I'm so far away From everything you know Your name is carried on the wind Your ice blue waters Anya Where do they flow Where have they been Where have they been A hidden passion Touching a spark Flame of revolution Burning wild in your gypsy heart Your gypsy...

Me and my mate we think you're great Some we like and some we hate I know him I've seen him on the adverts Got any badges posters stickers or t-shirts You were bloody great last time you come I thought me 'ead was stuck in the bass drum Bloody loud, me bloody...

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 arms Through these fields of destruction Baptism of fire I've w...

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 t...

You wanna get a statement from Jesus C 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...

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 f...

It was New Cross Station, I was going on home Saw you get your ticket, standing on your own Here come the train about 02:44 I couldn't get a smoker, you took another car Yeah, the end of the line, we both had to change, And you're standing right behind me, I...

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 he...

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 fin...

Oh well the sun go down Celebration in the town tonight All day long They been slaughtering upon a stone Share outt he meat Yeah, you really liked to eat Come on woman, come follow me home Well, the priest he cries Virgins ascending to the skies tonight All d...

The sky is crying the streets are full of tears rain come down wash away my tears 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...

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...

How long, how long baby how long has it been how lon gyou 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 s...

I'm not alone sitting right there How come I get the feeling you'd vanish into the air I love you more than anybody else, babe Can't you tell I'm an easy touch. Baby, baby, I think I love you too much If I picked you up, oh you'd slip right away If I locked y...

Oo-ooo if I had you, yeah the things that I could do Honey, if I had you Now I could sing like an angel, fly just like a bird Sing you the best love song you ever heard. I could be a poet like Mohammed Ali, Float like a butterfly, sting just like a, just like...

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...

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...

With all the clarity of dream the sky so blue, the grass so green the rank and file and the navy blue the deep and strong, the straight and true the blue line they got the given sign the belts and boots marched forward in time the wood and the leather the clu...

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 do...

I tell you what! They don't mess with me, I'm a wild man, son I got me my very own anti tank gun I got a jack rabbit with it, guess he was a mean one Yeah, I've always been a sportsman Now, there wasn't much left when I got to him Them big old shells d...

Lady writer on the TV Talk about the Virgin Mary Reminded me of you Expectation left to come up to yeah 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 fa...

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 risqué Got to do a little...

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 s...

You walk out on the high wire You're a dancer on a 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 danc...

I woke up this morning, my jacuzzi wouldn't work Then the butler quit on me, man, can you believe it? Jerk! Must have been my artistic temperament he couldn't take How come nobody wants to give me a break? I've got the blues right down, mean and low I'm as low...

( I want my I want my MTV) 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...

I want my MTV) 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 dum...

Well this is my back yard - my back gate I hate to start my parties late here's the party cart - ain't that great? that ain't the best part baby - just wait that a genuine weathervane - it moves with the breeze portable hammok baby - who needs trees it's casua...

He sticks to his guns He take the road as it comes It atke 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 lose He's burning the grass He take up a glass He swallow it neat He crosses the floor He open the door H...

There's gotta be a record of you some place You gotta be on somebody's books The lowdown, a picture of your face Your injured looks The sacred and profane The pleasure and the pain Somewhere your fingerprints remain concrete And it's your face I'm looking for...

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 us...

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...

Bella donna's on the high street Her breasts upon the off beat And the stalls are just the side shows Victoriana's old clothes And yes her Jeans are tight now She gonna travel light now She's gonna tear up all her roots now She got a turn up for the botos now...

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 investigation - it's not a public inquiry I go checking out the reports - digging up the dirt You get to meet all sorts in t...

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...

A lovestruck Romeo Sings the streets a serenade Laying everybody low With a love song that he made Finds the streetlight Steps out of the shade Says something like: "You and me, babe, how about it?" Juliet says: "Hey it's Romeo, You nearly gave me a heart att...

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...

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 p...

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 be...

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 chan...

Here I am again in this mean old town And you're so far away from me And where are you when the sun goes down You're so far away from me So far away from me So far I just can't see So far away from me You're so far away from me I'm tired of being in...

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 surpirsed when the tide rolled in i wanna live on solid rock i'm gonna live on soli...

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 r...

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...

A long time ago came a man on a track Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back And he put down his load where he thought it was the best He made a home in the wilderness he built a cabin and a winter store And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake sho...

Well it's a strange old game - you learn it slow one step forward and it's back to go you're standing on the throttle you're standing on the breaks in the groove 'til you make a mistake sometimes you're the windshield sometimes you're the bug sometimes it all...

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...

Standin' in the corner of toulouse and dauphine waitin' on marie-ondine I'm tryin' to place a tune under a louisiana moonbeam on the planet of new orleans in a bar they call the saturn nad in her eyes of green and somethin' that she said in a dream inside of m...

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...

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 te...

We're going on a holiday now Gonna take a villa, a small chalet On the Costa del Magnifico Where the cost of living is so low Yeah, we're gonna be so neat Dance to the Eurobeat Yeah, we're gonna be so cool Twisting by the pool Sitting in a small cafe now Swi...

It was the last day of summer It was the first of a new romance He walked into her on the corner She said, 'I don't dance' He said, 'Baby let me teach you' She said, 'O.K., when?' He said, 'How can I reach you baby I'd really like to see you again' He picked...

Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay He got the action, he got the motion Yeah, the boy can play Dedication devotion Turning all the n...

High and dry in the long hot day Lost and lonely in every way Got the flats all around, sky up above Yes, 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've taken enough Yes,...

There's a shadow hanging over the valley a total eclipse of the moon closing up the gates of the city the wind it plays a wild tune don't you put a lock on your window don't you put the bar on your door don't you cry for the rain in the sky you've seen the sto...

If we can't get along we oughta be apart and I'm wondering where'd you get that cold, cold heart set me free - sign my release I'm tired of being the villain of the peace you been giving me a bad time tell me what I'd do how come I always get a hard time hone...

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 Is really no place you can go I understand...

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...

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 mar...

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 plan...

All the late night bargains have been struck Between the satin beaus and their belles 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...