Dire Straits
Dire Straits
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Down to the Waterline
04 : 01
2
Water of Love
05 : 27
3
Setting Me Up
03 : 19
4
Six Blade Knife
04 : 12
5
Southbound Again
02 : 59
6
Sultans of Swing
05 : 52
7
In the Gallery
06 : 19
8
Wild West End
04 : 43
9
Lions
05 : 07
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Track Lyrics
Down to the Waterline Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
Well, near misses on the dogleap stairway
French kisses in the darkened doorway
A foghorn blowing out a-wild and cold
A policeman, he shines a light upon my shoulder
[Verse 3]
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]
[Outro]
She can see him on the jetty that they used to know
She can feel him in the places where the sailors go
When she's walking by the river or the railway line
She can still hear him whisper, "Let's go down to the waterline, c'mon"
Six Blade Knife Lyrics
[Chorus]
Your six blade knife do anything for you
Anything you wanna do
One blade breaking my heart
One blade tearing me apart
Your six blade knife do anything for you
[Verse 1]
You take away my mind like you take away the top of a tin
You come up from behind me 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
Yes, you take away my mind like you take away the top of a tin
[Bridge]
I'd like to be free of it babe, I don't want it no more
I'd like to be free of it now, I don't want it no more
[Guitar solo]
[Verse 2]
Everybody got a knife it can be just what you want it to be
A needle, a wife, or something that you just can't see
[Chorus]
A six blade knife, you're strong
Yes and you'll do me wrong
Your six blade knife do anything for you
[Outro]
Do anything, anything for you
Anything
Southbound Again Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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's bound to be moving
Seems like the boy's bound to roam
[Verse 2]
Oh, every single time
I roll across the rolling river Tyne
Every single time
I roll across the rolling River Tyne
Oh, I get the same old feeling
Every time I'm moving down the line
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Southbound again
Last night I felt like crying, like crying
Southbound again
Last night I felt like crying
By now I'm sick of living
But I'm gonna keep on trying, keep on trying
Sultans of Swing Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
Well, now you step inside
But you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain
To hear the jazz go down
Competition in other places
Ah, but the horns, they're blowing that sound
[Refrain]
Way on down south
Way on down south, London town
[Verse 3]
You check out guitar George
He knows all the chords
Mind, it's strictly rhythm
He doesn't want to make it cry or sing
Yes and an old guitar is all he can afford
When he gets up under the lights to play his thing
[Verse 4]
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
Saving it up for Friday night
[Refrain]
With the Sultans
With the Sultans of Swing
Yeah
[Verse 5]
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
[Refrain]
And the Sultans
Yeah, the Sultans, they play Creole
Creole
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 6]
And then the man
He steps right up to the microphone
And says at last
Just as the time bell rings
âGoodnight, now it's time to go homeâ
Then he makes it fast with one more thing
[Refrain]
âWe are the Sultans
We are the Sultans of Swingâ
[Guitar Solo Outro]
In the Gallery Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
He was ignored by all the 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
[Verse 3]
And then you get an artist says he doesn't want to paint at all
Just takes an empty canvas, sticks it on a wall
Birds of a feather, all the phonies and all of the fakes
[Chorus]
While the dealers, they get together
And they decide who gets the breaks
And who's going to be
Who's going to be
In the gallery
In the gallery
[Instrumental break 3:02-4:03]
[Guitar solo]
[Verse 4]
No lies, he wouldn't compromise
No junk, no string
And all the lies we subsidise
They just don't mean a thing
[Chorus]
I've got to say he passed away in obscurity
And now all the vultures, they're coming down from the tree
He's going to be
He's going to be
In the galle-, galle-, galle-, gallery
In the gallery
[Outro]
Harry made a bareback rider
Made a bareback rider
[Guitar solo]