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Alchemy - 1984 Dire Straits - Alchemy (1984)
23 de Juliol de 1983
Grabat al Hammersmith Odeon, Londres, GB, a càrrec de Mick McKenna
Mesclat als Air Studios, Londres, GB., el novembre de 1983, a càrrec de Nigel Walker y Jeremy Allom
Produit per Mark Knopfler
Components: Alan Clark (Teclats), Mel Collins (Saxo), Joor de Kurte (Percusió), John Illsley (Baix), Mark Knopfler (Guitarra i veu), Hal Lindes (Guitarra), Tommy Mandel (Teclats), Terry Williams (Bateria)
 
Tema CAT AL Tema CAT AL Tema CAT AL
Once upon a time in the West     Romeo and Juliet     Expresso Love    
Sultans of Swing     Private investigations     Two young Lovers    
Tunnel of Love      Telegraph road     Solid rock    
Going Home "Theme from Local Hero"                

 

AmuntOnce upon a time in the West  
Some people get a cheap laugh breaking up the speed limit 
Scaring the pedestrians for 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 it's no use saying that you don't know nothing 
It's still gonna get you if you don't do something 
Sitting on a fence that's a dangerous course 
Ah, you could even catch a buller 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 yout daughter 
Who's protecting the innocenti 
Heap big trouble in the land of plenty 
Tell me how we're gonna do what's 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 
 
AmuntRomeo and Juliet
A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade 
Laying everybody low with 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 it's Romeo you nearly gimme me a heart attack 
He's underneath the window she's singing hey la my boyfriend's back 
You shouldn't 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 I forget the movie song 
When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong Juliet? 
Come up on different streets they booth were streets of shame 
Both dirty both mean yes and the dream was just the same 
And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real 
How can you look at me as if I was 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 med everything you promised me thick and thin 
Now you just say 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 I'll love you till I die 
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 can't do the talk like they talk on tv 
And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be 
I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you 
I can't do anything except be in love with you 
And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be 
All I do is keep the beat and bad company 
All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme 
Julie I'd 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 I'll love you till I die 
There's 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 streetsuss serenade 
Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made 
Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade 
Says something like you and me babe how about it?
 
AmuntExpresso 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 
I'd do anything to reach her 
And she was made in heaven 
Heaven's in the world 
Is this just expresso love 
You know I'm crazy for the girl 
She call me just to talk 
She's my lover she's 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 don't 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 
Seat on her hip 
And I surrender to the fever 
I surrender to the will of the night 
She love me so tender I got to believe her 
Love? Expresso love's alright 
I don't want no sugar in it 
Thank you very much 
All wired up on it all fired up on it 
Expresso touch 
Hey maestro expresso 
It's just another one just like the other one 
Hey maestro expresso 
Is this another one just like the other one
 
Amunt Private investigations
It's a mystery to me - the game commences 
For the usual fee - plus expences 
Confidential information - it's in a diary 
This is my investigation - it's not a public inquiry 
I go checking out the reports - digging up the dirt 
You get to meet all sorts in this line of work 
Treachery an reason - there's always an excuse for it 
And when I find the reason I still 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 investigation 
 
AmuntSultans of Swing
You get a shiver in the dark 
It's 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 alright when you hear that music ring 
You step inside but you don't see too many faces 
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down 
Too much competition too many 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 he's strictly rhythm he doesn't 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 doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene 
He's got a daytime job he's doing alright, thanx you very much 
He can play honky tonk just like anything 
Saving the Sultans with the Sultans of Swing 
And a crowd of young boys they're fooling around in the corner 
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles 
The don't give a damm about any trumpet playing band 
It ain't whet 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 it's time to go home' 
and he makes it fast whith one more thing 
'We are the Sultans of Swing'
 
AmuntTwo 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 don't dance 
He said: Baby let me teach you 
She said: Okay, when ? 
He said: So how can I reach you baby ? 
I'd 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 sweat 
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 couldn't stand to be apart 
They couldn't leave one another alone 
Her mama used to say: It's getting late sweetheart, 
It's time that boy went home 
And upstairs papa kissed mama 
And she gave him a sweet caress 
He said: Here's to the two young lovers 
Let's 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, here's to the two young lovers 
Let's wish 'em every happiness 
 
Amunt Tunnel of Love 
Getting crazy on the waltzers but it's the life that I 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 don'r know where I'll be tonight but I'd 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 races 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 soul 
And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above 
And I'm just high on the world 
Come on and take a low ride with me girl 
On the tunnel of love 
It's just the danger when you're riding at your own risk 
She said you are the perfect stranger she said baby let's keep it like this 
It's just a cakewalk twisting baby step right up and say 
Hey mister give me two give me two cos any two can play 
And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above 
And I'm just high on the world 
Come on and take a low ride with me girl 
On the tunnel of love 
Well it's been money for muscle another whirlgig 
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 were kids 
Oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did 
Like the spanish city to me when we were 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 cought up with her easy enough but something must have made me 
stay 
And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above 
And I'm just high on the world 
Come on and take a low ride with me girl 
On the tunnel of love 
And now I'm searching through these carousels and the carnival arcades 
Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades 
In any shooting gallery where promises ar made 
To rockaway rockaway from Cullercoasts and Whitley bay out to rockaway 
And girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did 
Like the spanish city to me when we were kids 
Oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did 
Like the spanish city to me when we were kids 
 
Amunt Telegraph road
A long time ago came a man on a track 
Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back 
And he put down his load where he thought it was the best 
He 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 and they never went back 
Then came the churches then came the schools 
Then came the lawyers and the came the rules 
The 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 it's gonna freeze 
People driving home from the factories 
There's six lanes of traffic 
Three lanes moving slow... 
I used to like to go to work but they shut it down 
I've got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found 
Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed 
We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed 
And the birds up on the wires and the telepraph 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 I'd 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 don't seem to care... 
But believe in me baby and I'll 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 I've run every red light on memory lane 
I've seen desperation explode into flames 
And I don't wanna see it again... 
From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed 
All the way down the telegraph road
 
Amunt Solid rock
Well take a look at that 
I made a castle in the sand 
Saying this is where it's at you know 
Couldn't understand now 
If I realised that the chances were slim 
How come I'm so suprised when the tide rolled in 
I wanna live on solid rock 
I'm gonna live on solid rock 
I wanna give don't wanna be blocked 
I'm gonna live on solid rock 
Well I'm sick of potential 
I'm sick fo vanity now 
I'm sticking to essential reality now 
I don't know what's 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 they're gonna stick 
Yeah they're gonna stick together 
Because the heart that you break 
That's the one that tou rely on 
The bed that you make 
That's the one you gotta lie on 
When you point you fingers cos you plan fell through 
You got three more fingers pointing back at you 
I wanna live on solid rock 
I'm gonna live on solid rock 
I wanna give don't wanna be blocked 
I'm gonna live on solid rock 
  
Amunt Going Home "Theme from Local Hero"
- Instrumental -