In The Sky - Mark Knopfler
Are you home from the sea, my soul balladeer
You’ve been away roaming far away from here
weathered a storm, your heart unafraid
crossed every ocean in the boat that you made
Been blowing your horn, scaring the spooks
No crotchets or quavers in your books
Gone sailing all night, straight in the vein
like a bird on his own flight in his domain in the sky
Running in on the tide with the first of the stars
the moon on the water and the sound of guitars
Glide into the homing as the night falls
to tie up in the haven by the old harbour wall
And the hard-bitten stranger as deaf as a post
who stands at the fire where a poet’s dreams roast
He can’t know the story, he can’t feel the pain
and all of the glory falls around him like rain in the sky
You’re a light in the dark, a beacon of hope
and strong as a sea boat, strong as a rope
And the vagabond wind, whispers over the bay
and the songs and the laughter, are carried away in the sky
True Love Will Never Fade
July 18, 2008 National Arts Centre, Ottawa
True love will never fade, x5
I wonder if there's no forever, no walking hand in hand
Down a yellow brick road to to never-never land
These days I get to where Im going, make it there eventually
Follow a trail of breadcrumbs to where im meant to be, to where Im meant to be
I don't know what brought you to me. that was up to you
So many come to see me who want their own tattoo
I fixed a needle in your holder, laid my hand upon your spine
there upon your shoulder I drew the picture as your sign
when i think about us i see the picture that we made
the picture to remind us true love will never fade x4
I'm with the rowdies and day trippers, now and then I think of you
any which way were all shuffling, forward in the queue
they like to move my operation they like to get me off the beat
and I dream I'm on a steamer pulling out of here
when i think about us i see the picture that we made
the picture to remind us true love will never fade x4
