dIRE sTRAITS



Albums - On The Night


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  1. Brothers In Arms
  2. Calling Elvis
  3. Heavy Fuel
  4. Money For Nothing
  5. On Every Street
  6. Private Investigations
  7. Romeo & Juliet
  8. Solid Rock
  9. The Bug
  10. Walk Of Life
  11. You & Your Friend

Brothers In Arms

These mist covered mountains Are a home now for me But my home is the lowlands And always will be Some day youll return to Your valleys and your farms And youll no longer burn To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction Baptisms of fire Ive 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

Theres so many different worlds So many differents suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones

Now the suns gone to hell And the moons riding high Let me bid you farewell Every man has to die But its written in the starlight And every line on your palm Were fools to make war On our brothers in arms


Calling Elvis

Calling elvis Is anybody home Calling elvis Im here all alone Did he leave the building Or can he come to the phone Calling elvis Im 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 dont be cruel Return to sender Treat me like a fool

Calling elvis Is anybody home Calling elvis Im here all alone Did he leave the building Can he come to the phone Calling elvis Im here all alone

Why dont you go get him Im his biggest fan You gotta tell him Hes still the man Long distance baby So far from home Dont 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 dont be cruel Return to sender Treat me like a fool

Calling elvis Is anybody home Calling elvis Im here all alone Did he leave the building Or can he come to the phone Calling elvis Im here all alone


Heavy Fuel

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 whos strong The things shell do to turn me on I love the babes, dont get we wrong Hey, thats why I wrote this song

I dont care if my liver is hanging by a thread Dont care if my doctor says I ought to be dead When my ugly big car wont climb this hill Ill 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


Money For Nothing

Now look at them yo-yos thats the way you do it You play the guitar on the mtv That aint workin thats the way you do it Money for nothin and chicks for free Now that aint workin thats the way you do it Lemme tell ya them guys aint 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 tvs

See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup Yeah buddy thats his own hair That little faggot got his own jet airplane That little faggot hes a millionaire

We gotta install microwave ovesns Custom kitchens deliveries We gotta move these refrigerators We gotta move these colour tvs

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 hes up there, whats that? hawaiian noises? Bangin on the bongoes like a chimpanzee That aint workin thats 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 tvs, lord

Now that aint workin thats the way you do it You play the guitar on the mtv That aint workin thats the way you do it Money for nothin and your chicks for free Money for nothin and chicks for free


On Every Street

Theres gotta be a record of you some place You gotta be on somebodys 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 its your face Im looking for on every street

A ladykiller - regulation tattoo Silver spurs on his heels Says - what can I tell you as Im standing next to you She threw herself under my wheels Oh its a dangerous road And a hazardous load And the fireworks over liberty expode in the heat And its your face Im looking for on every street

A three-chord symphony crashes into space The moon is hanging upside down I dont know why it is Im still on the case Its a ravenous town And you still refuse to be traced Seems to me such a waste And every victory has a taste thats bittersweet And its your face Im looking for on every street


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 & 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


The Bug

Well its a strange old game - you learn it slow One step forward and its back to go Youre standing on the throttle Youre standing on the brakes In the groove til you make a mistake

Sometimes youre the windshield Sometimes youre the bug Sometimes it all comes together baby Sometimes youre a fool in love Sometimes youre the louisville slugger Sometimes youre the ball Sometimes it all comes together baby Sometimes youre going lose it all

You gotta know happy - you gotta know glad Because youre gonna know lonely And youre gonna know bad When youre rippin and a ridin and youre coming on strong You start slippin and a slidin and it all goes wrong, because

Sometimes youre the windshield Sometimes youre the bug Sometimes it all comes together baby Sometimes youre a fool in love Sometimes youre the louisville slugger baby Sometimes youre the ball Sometimes it all comes together baby Sometimes youre going lose it all

One day you got the glory Then you got none One day youre a diamond And then youre a stone Everything can change In the blink of an eye So let the good times roll Before we say goodbye, because

Sometimes youre the windshield Sometimes youre the bug Sometimes it all comes together baby Sometimes youre a fool in love Sometimes youre the louisville slugger baby Sometimes youre the ball Sometimes it all comes together baby Sometimes youre going lose it all


Walk Of Life

Here comes johnny singing oldies, goldies Be-bop-a-lua, 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 hell tell you the story Hand me down mu 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 Decidation devotion Turning all the night time into the day

And after all the violence and double talk Theres just a song in the trouble and the strife You do the walk, you do the walk of life


You & Your Friend

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 Im a hungry man Let me know one way or the other So I can make my plans

Will you and your friend come around Or are you and your friend gonna get on down Will you and your friend come around Or are you and your friend gonna get on down

I relive the situation Still see it in my mind You got my imagination Working overtime

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