Mark Knopfler

We are leaving, leavingLeaving on the tideCome and stand beside me loveThe water is so wideYou can hear the sailors callingAt the dawning of the dayYesterday is falling, loveAnd je suis désolé, je suis désoléJe suis désolé, mais je n’ai pas le choixJe suis désolé, mais la vie me demande çaI am

Well now the school Christmas party is comingAin’t doing rugby no moreMcIntyre teaching us waltzingOut on the gymnasium floorNobody battered or bleedingNobody’s tattered and tornMcIntyre’s dim, loud in the gymWell, we’ve only got a little (…

Yearning we were yearningGreen light blinding on the railBurning we were burningAnd the line unwinding to the Holy GrailTo the future gleaming on a blue horizonAnd a golden girl on golden sandDreaming fantasizingIn another world from MetrolandI’ve danced in rain and I’

When I leave this world behind meTo another I will goIf there are no pipes in heavenI’ll be going down belowIf friends in time be severedSomeday we will meet againI’ll return to leave you neverBe a piper to the endThis has been a day to die forNow the day has almost goneUp above a choir […]