Mark Knopfler: A Life in Songs Page #5

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# Juliet. #

I enjoy playing the song now.

Some of those songs, they just seem to want to go on

and as long as they've got a life, I'll enjoy playing them.

I've got to find something in it for myself when I do it

just to try and make sure that there's something real

in it happening for me all the time.

# And the dream was just the same

# You dreamed your dream for you And o now your dream's real

# How can you look at me as if I'm just another one of your deals?

# When 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 thick and thin

# Now you just say

# Romeo, 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

# Oh I'll love you till the day I die

# And there's a place for us

# You know the movie song

# When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong?

# Juliet. #

I don't think you do necessarily know which song is better than another. They're just different.

They're like people and you have to do the best thing by them

and you do the best thing by them

almost like a little person and then they grow up and you do

the best thing and they're the boss and then they walk away from you.

When they're recorded, off they go and they have their life.

This song's Tunnel Of Love.

For the song Tunnel of Love, also on the Making Movies album,

Knopfler was drawing inspiration from memories of his childhood growing up in the north-east.

The biggest fair in Europe comes to Newcastle every year and that was a magnet for me.

I was just always lost in the middle of it.

Also when I was little we used to go to Cullercoats and Whitley Bay.

On the train from South Gosforth station, there was an electric train that went there

and we used to go there and the Spanish City is something that I remember.

I'd been just on a roller coaster ride for the past few years.

# Crazy on the waltzers

# But it's the life that I choose... #

I realised that's what I was going to do.

I realised that was my life and that was the way it was all going to be, I was just,

I was in the middle of it, in the eye of the storm really

but I was just riding it just fine, I was doing it,

I was hanging in there and I was determined that I was going to go on.

# She took off a silver locket

# Said remember me by this

# Put a hand in my pocket

# I got a keepsake and a kiss

# And in the roar of dust and diesel

# I stood I watched her walk away

Could have caught up with her easy enough... #

My travels had taken me to New York at this point, but I knew where I was from,

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