dIRE sTRAITS

Albums - Alchemy

Expresso Love

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 Id do anything to reach her

And she was made in heaven Heavens in the world Is this just expresso love You know Im crazy for the girl

She call me just to talk Shes my lover, shes 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 dont 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 loves alright

I dont want no sugar in it Thank you very much All wired up on it all fired up on it Expresso touch Hey maestro expresso Its just another one just like the other one Hey maestro expresso Is this another one just like the other one

Going Home - Theme from local hero

Still going through this song, sorry!

Love Over Gold

You walk out on the high wire Youre 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 Youre thrown your love to all the strangers And caution to the wind

I takes love over gold And mind over matter To do what you to that you must When the things that you hold Can fall and be shattered Or run through your fingers like dust

Once Upon A Time In The West

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 room to pass Sunday driver never took a test Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west

Yes its no use saying that you dont know nothing Its still gonna get you if you dont do something Sitting on a fence thats 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

Mother mary your children are slaughtered Some of you mothers ought to lock up your daughters Whos protecting the innocenti Heap big trouble in the land of plenty Tell me how were gonna do whats best You guess once upon a time in the west

Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west

Once upon a time in the west

Private Investigations

Its a mystery to me The game commences For the usual fee Plus expenses Confidential information Its in a diary This is my investigation Its not a public inquiry

I go checking out the report Digging up the dirt You get to meet all sorts In the line of work Treachery and treason Theres always an excuse for it And when I find the reason I still cant 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 window and a pain behind the eyes

Scarred for life No compensation Private investigations

Romeo and Juliet

A lovestruck romeo sings a streetsus serenade Laying everybody low with me 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 its romeo you nearly gimme a heart attack Hes underneath the window shes singing hey la my boyfriends back You shouldnt 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 the movie song When you wanna realise it was just that the time was wrong juliet ?

Come up on differents 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 your dream is real How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals ?

Where 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 think 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 Ill love you till I die Theres a place for us you know the movie song When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong juliet ?

I cant do the talk like they talk on tv And I cant do a love song like the way its meant to be I cant do everything but Id do anything for you I cant do anything except be in love with you

And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be All do is keep the beat and bad company All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme Julie Id 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 Ill love you till I die Theres 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 streetsus serenade Laying everybody low with me a lovesong that he made Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade Says something like you and me babe how about it ?

Solid Rock

Well take a look at that I made a castle in the sand Saying this is where its at you know Couldnt understand now If I realised that the chances were slim How come Im so surprised when the tide rolled in

I wanna live on solid rock Im gonna live on solid rock I wanna give I dont wanna be blocked Im gonna live on solid rock

Well Im sick of potential Im sick of vanity now Im sticking to essential reality now I dont know whats 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 theyre gonna stick Yeah theyre gonna stick together

Because the heart you break Thats the one that you rely on The bed that you make Thats 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 Im gonna live on solid rock I wanna give I dont wanna be blocked Im gonna live on solid rock Im solid rock now

Sultans Of Swing

You get a shiver in the dark Its 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 dont 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 hes strictly rhythm he doesnt 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 doesnt mind if he doesnt make the scene Hes got a daytime job hes 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 theyre fooling around in the corner Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles They dont give a damn about any trumpet playing band It aint 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 its time to go home And he makes it fast with one more thing we are the sultans of swing

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 Made a home in the wilderness 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, no, 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 its gonna freeze People driving home from the factories Theres six lanes of traffic Three lanes moving slow. . .

I used to like to go to work but they shut it down I got a right to go to work but theres no work here to be found Yes and they say were gonna have to pay whats owed Were gonna have to reap from some seed thats 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 hear them singing out their telegraph code All the way down the telegraph road

You know Id 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 dont seem to care But believe in me baby and Ill 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 Ive run every red light on memory lane Ive seen desperation explode into flames And I dont want to see it again. . .

from all of these signs saying sorry but were closed All the way down the telegraph road

Tunnel Of Love

Getting crazy on the waltzers but its life that 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 dont know Ill be tonight but Id 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 race 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 Im just high on the wold Come on and take a low with ma girl On the tunnel of love

Its just the danger when youre riding at your own risk She said you are the perfect stranger she said baby lets keep it like this Its 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 on turning neon burning up above And Im just high on the world Come on and take the low ride with me girl On the tunnel or love

Well its 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 where kids Oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did Like the spanish city to me when we where 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 up above And Im high on the world Come on and take a low ride with me girl On the tunnel of love

And now Im 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 bat out to rockaway

And girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did Like the spanish city to me when we where kids Girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did Like the spanish city to me when we where kids

Two Young Lovers

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 dont dance

He said, baby let me teach you She said, o.k., when? He said, how can I reach you baby Id 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 couldnt stand to be apart They couldnt leave one another alone Her mama used to say, its getting late sweetheart Its time that boy went home

And upstairs papa kissed mama And she gave him a sweet caress He said, heres to the two young lovers Lets 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, heres to the two young lovers Lets wish em every happiness