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 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
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 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'
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing (Official Music Video)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | The Official Music Video for Sultans of Swing. Taken from Dire Straits – Dire Straits.
Dire Straits – Live 1978-1992' is out now (UK/ROW). Out January 19th, 2024. (US). Order now: https://DireStraits.lnk.to/live78-92ID
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 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
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 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'
#DireStraits #SultansofSwingDire Straits - Sultans Of Swing (Lyric Video)Dire Straits2024-08-15 | Official Lyric Video for Sultans Of Swing.
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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 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
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 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'
http://vevo.ly/rWY6FqDire Straits - Telegraph Road (Visualiser)Dire Straits2024-05-03 | The official lyric video for Money For Nothing by 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 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 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 Dedication devotion Turning all the night time into the day
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
#DireStraits #WalkofLife #BrothersinArmsDire Straits - Walk of Life (UK Version)Dire Straits2022-06-10 | Official music videos (UK version) for Walk Of Life.
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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 cakewalk 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 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
#DireStraits #TunnelOfLove #AlchemyDire Straits - Romeo And Juliet (Official Music Video)Dire Straits2016-12-07 | The Official Music Video for Romeo And Juliet. Taken from Dire Straits – Making Movies.
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a lovestruck romeo sings a streetsusss 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 shouldn’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 realise 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 if 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 says 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 realise 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 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 and there’s a place for us you know the movie song when you gonna realise 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 streetlight steps out of the shade says something like you and me babe how about it?
#DireStraits # RomeoAndJuliet #MakingMoviesDire Straits - Money For Nothing (Live At Knebworth)Dire Straits2016-11-08 | The official live video for Money For Nothing, performed live at Knebworth.
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 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
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 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'
#DireStraits #SultansOfSwingDire Straits - Sultans Of Swing (Alchemy Live)Dire Straits2010-04-20 | Official Live Video for Sultans Of Swing. Taken from Dire Straits – Alchemy: Dire Straits Live.
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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 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
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 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'
#DireStraits #SultansOfSwingDire Straits - Expresso Love (Alchemy Live)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | Official Live Video for Espresso Love. Taken from Dire Straits – Alchemy: Dire Straits Live.
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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 lip 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
#DireStraits #EspressoLove #AlchemyDire Straits - Calling Elvis (Official Music Video)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | The Official Music Video for Calling Elvis. Taken from Dire Straits – On Every Street.
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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
why don’t you go get him – I’m his biggest fan you gotta tell him – he’s still the man long distance baby – so far from home don’t you think maybe you could put him on
well tell him I was calling just to wish him well let me leave my number – heartbreak hotel oh love me tender – baby 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
#DireStraits #CallingElvis #OnEveryStreet
Music video by Dire Straits performing Calling Elvis. (C) 1991 Universal Music International Ltd.Dire Straits - Solid Rock (Alchemy Live)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | The official live video for Solid Rock, as recorded on Alchemy: Dire Straits Live. Captured at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK, July 1983.
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Lyrics: well take a look at that i made a castle in the sand saying 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
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
#direstraits #solidrock #liveDire Straits - Heavy Fuel (Official Music Video)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | The Official Music Video for Heavy Fuel. Taken from Dire Straits – On Every Street.
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last time I was sober, man I felt bad worst hangover that I ever had it took six hamburgers and scotch all night nicotine for breakfast just to put me right ‘cos if you wanna run cool if you wanna run cool if you wanna run cool, you got to run on heavy, heavy fuel
my life makes perfect sense lust and food and violence sex and money are my major kicks get me in a fight I like dirty tricks ‘cos if you wanna run cool yes if you wanna run cool, you got to run on heavy, heavy fuel
my chick loves a man who’s strong the things she’ll do to turn me on I love the babes, don’t get me wrong hey, that’s why I wrote this song
I don’t care if my liver is hanging by a thread don’t care if my doctor says I ought to be dead when my ugly big car won’t climb this hill I’ll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill ‘cos if you wanna run cool if you wanna run cool yes if you wanna run cool, you got to run on heavy, heavy fuel
#DireStraits #HeavyFuel #OnEveryStreetDire Straits - Heavy Fuel (TV Edit)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | The official video for Heavy Fuel (TV Edit)
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ow look at them yo-yo’s that’s the way you do it You play the guitar on the MTV That ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it Money for nothin’ and chicks for free
Now that ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it Lemme tell ya them guys ain’t dumb Maybe get a blister on your little finger Maybe get a blister on your thumb
We gotta install microwave ovens Custom kitchen deliveries We gotta move these refrigerators We gotta move these colour TV’s
We gotta install microwave ovens 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
#DireStraits #MoneyForNothing #BrothersinArmsDire Straits - Two Young Lovers (Alchemy Live)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | Official Live Video for Two Young Lovers. Taken from Dire Straits – Alchemy: Dire Straits Live.
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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 her up on a Friday night He took her for a bite to eat His heart was beating and his hands were shaking She thought he was sweet And he stood on her shoes on the dance floor Well, they were doing it cheek to cheek And he walked her home and he kissed her He was walking on air all week Well, they couldn't stand to be apart They couldn't leave one another alone Her mama used to say, 'It's getting late sweetheart It's time that boy went home' And upstairs papa kissed mama And she gave him a sweet caress He said, 'Here's to the two young lovers Let's wish 'em every happiness' It was the last day of summer They came walking home hand in hand They went and told her mama They showed her the wedding band Mama cried and poured the wine Papa just said God Bless Now, here's to the two young lovers Let's wish 'em every happiness
#DireStraits #TwoYoungLovers #Alchemy
Music video by Dire Straits performing Two Young Lovers. (C) 1982 Mercury Records LimitedDire Straits - Walk Of Life (Official Music Video)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | The Official Music Video for Walk of Life. Taken from Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms.
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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 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 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 Dedication devotion Turning all the night time into the day
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
#DireStraits #WalkofLife #BrothersinArmsDire Straits - The Bug (Official Music Video)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | The Official Music Video for The Bug. Taken from Dire Straits – On Every Street.
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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 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 slugger sometimes you’re the ball sometimes it all comes together baby sometimes you’re going to lose it all
you gotta know happy – you gotta know glad because you’re gonna know lonely and you’re gonna know bad when you’re rippin’ and a ridin’ and you’re coming on strong you start slippin’ and a slidin’ and it all goes wrong, because
sometimes you’re the windshield sometimes you’re the bug sometimes it all comes together baby sometimes you’re a fool in love sometimes you’re the louisville slugger sometimes you’re the ball sometimes it all comes together baby sometimes you’re going to lose it all
one day you got the glory then you got none one day you’re a diamond and then you’re a stone
everything can change in the blink of an eye so let the good times roll before we say goodbye, because
sometimes you’re the windshield sometimes you’re the bug sometimes it all comes together baby sometimes you’re a fool in love sometimes you’re the louisville slugger sometimes you’re the ball sometimes it all comes together baby sometimes you’re going to lose it all
#DireStraits #TheBug #OnEveryStreetDire Straits - Brothers In Arms (Official Music Video)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | The Official Music Video for Brothers In Arms. Taken from Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms.
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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 Baptisms 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
#DireStraits #BrothersInArmsDire Straits - Private Investigations (Official Music Video)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | The Official Music Video for Private Investigations. Taken from Dire Straits – Love over Gold.
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t’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 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 investigation
#DireStraits #PrivateInvestigations #LoveoverGoldDire Straits - Skateaway (Official Music Video)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | The Official Music Video for Skateaway. Taken from Dire Straits – Making Movies.
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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 graze 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 been so rude to her
come slippin and a slidin life’s rollerball slippin and a slidin skateaway that’s all shala shalay hey hey skateaway she’s singing shala shalay hey hey skateaway
#DireStraits #Skateaway #MakingMoviesDire Straits - Money For Nothing (Official Music Video)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | The Official Music Video for Money For Nothing. Taken from Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms.
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ow look at them yo-yo’s that’s the way you do it You play the guitar on the MTV That ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it Money for nothin’ and chicks for free
Now that ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it Lemme tell ya them guys ain’t dumb Maybe get a blister on your little finger Maybe get a blister on your thumb
We gotta install microwave ovens Custom kitchen deliveries We gotta move these refrigerators We gotta move these colour TV’s
See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup Yeah buddy that’s his own hair That little faggot got his own jet airplane That little faggot he’s a millionaire
We gotta install microwave ovens 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
#DireStraits #MoneyforNothing #BrothersinArmsDire Straits - So Far Away (Official Music Video)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | The Official Music Video for So Far Away. Taken from Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms.
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Here I am again in this mean old town And you’re so far away from me And where are you when the sun goes down You’re so far away from me
So far away from me So far I just can’t see So far away from me You’re so far away from me
I’m tired of being in love and being all alone When you’re so far away from me I’m tired of making out on the telephone And you’re so far away from me
So far away from me So far I just can’t see So far away from me You’re so far away from me
I get so tired when I have to explain When you’re so far away from me See you been in the sun and I’ve been in the rain And you’re so far away from me
So far away from me So far I just can’t see So far away from me You’re so far away from me
#DireStraits #SoFarAway #BrothersinArmsDire Straits - Love Over Gold (Alchemy Live)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | Official Live Video for Love Over Gold. Taken from Dire Straits – Alchemy: Dire Straits Live.
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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
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
#DireStraits #LoveOverGold #Alchemy
Music video by Dire Straits performing Love Over Gold. (C) 1984 Universal Music International Ltd.Dire Straits - Lady Writer (Official Music Video)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | The Official Music Video for Lady Writer. Taken from Dire Straits - Communiqué.
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Lady Writer on the t.v. Talk about the Virgin Mary Reminded me of you Expectations left to come up to yeah
Lady writer on the t.v. 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 t.v. 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 your mother was a jazz singer
Just the way that her hair fell down around her face Then I recall my fall from grace Oh yeah, another time, another place
Lady writer on the t.v. 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 t.v. Talking about the Virgin Mary Yeah you know I’m talking about you and me And the lady writer on the t.v. Lady writer on the t.v. Talking about the Virgin Mary Yeah you know I’m talking about you and me And the lady writer on the t.v.
#DireStraits #LadyWriter #CommuniquéDire Straits - Twisting By The Pool (Official Music Video)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | The Official Music Video for Twisting By The Pool. Taken from Dire Straits - ExtendedancEPlay.
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We're going on a holiday now Gonna take a villa, a small chalet Costa del Magnifico Yo, cost of living is so low Yeah, gonna be so neat Dance to the Euro beat Yeah, gonna be so cool Twisting by the, twisting by the By the pool We're twisting by the pool We're twisting by the pool Twisting, twisting by the pool Sitting in a small cafe now Swing, swing, swingin' to the cabaret You wanna see a movie, take in a show now Meet new people at the disco Yeah, gonna be so neat Dance to the Euro beat Yeah, gonna be so cool Twisting by the, we're twisting by the By the pool Twisting by the pool Twisting by the pool Yeah, twisting, twisting by the pool And we can still get information Reading all about inflation And you're never gonna be out of reach There's a call-box on the beach So one, a two A one, a two, a three Alright We're just twisting by the pool And we're twisting by the pool You got me twisting by the pool Yeah, twisting, twisting by the pool You're gonna look so cute Sunglasses and bathing suites Be the baby of my dreams Like the ladies in the magazine Yeah, gonna be so neat Dance to the Euro beat Oh yeah, gonna be so cool Twisting by the, we're just twisting by the Oh, by the pool, twisting by the pool I'm a twisting fool Just twisting, yeah twisting Twisting by the pool Everybody got to do the twisting by the pool And we're twisting by the pool You got me twisting by the pool Oh, twisting, twisting by the pool And we're twisting by the pool You got me twisting by the pool Oh, twisting, twisting by the pool Everybody got to do the twisting by the pool And we're twisting by the pool You got me twisting by the pool Oh, twisting, twisting by the pool Look here Come on and twisting by the pool I'm twisting fool Come and do the twisting by the pool Twisting, twisting by the pool
#DireStraits #TwistingbythePool #ExtendedancEPlayDire Straits - Wild West End (Official Music Video)Dire Straits2010-02-23 | The Official Music Video for Wild West End. Taken from Dire Straits – Dire Straits.
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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 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 the 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
And I 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