A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: dustyvalentino on May 09, 2022, 11:34:52 AM
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What are your favourite MK opening lines?
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Getting crazy on the waltzers 8)
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I got shot off my horse
So what? I’m up again
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Well a long time ago, came a man on a track. Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back
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"ouh ouh" :lol :lol :lol
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Maybe I’m bound to wander
From one place to the next
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It's time to come away, my darling pretty
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The drinking dens are spilling out, there’s staggering in the square
I hear the Seven Deadly Sins and the Terrible Twins came to call on you
Standin’ on the corner of toulouse and dauphine, waitin’ on marie-ondine
I’m a soldier of freedom in the army of man
When it’s pop goes the weasel let go of the easel
My whistle under the archways still echoes down the street
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Opening lines?
"Hola amigoooos! Buenas tardes! Oh, that's beautiful!"
Cordoba 2010
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And also DS:
High and dry in the long hot day
Lost and lonely in every way
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''Sweet surrender on the quayside''
And the rest is history...
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''Sweet surrender on the quayside''
And the rest is history...
:thumbsup I thought about it too.
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These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
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I`m going to San Bernardino ring-a-ding-ding ;D
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My personal favourite opening lines from both DS (Telegraph Road) and Mark's solo career (Everybody Pays) have already been mentioned, but I can give another favourite of mine that hasn't come up yet:
There's gotta be a record of you someplace
You gotta be on somebody's books
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Do you come to my shows often? :-*
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Do you come to my shows often? :-*
Lolz. I think that was more likely to be from TK...
Back on topic:
It's a mystery to me, the game commences, for the usual fee, plus expenses.
Immediately sets the mood for the story and the song.
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I can't forget one more:
You can tell me your troubles
I’ll listen for free
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The sky is crying the streets are full of tears
Rain come down wash away my fears
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What about…….
“I always know when the mother in law is coming, the mice throw themselves in the traps”
Oh does it have to be MK?
-5.15am, snow laying all around.
(Not THAT powerful I grant you but most folk aren’t up at that time so you know it’s not going to be a normal event.) As a side note, I sometimes AM up at 5.15am as it’s my preferred “end of the day” and I always think of MK if I set my alarm for then.
-she likes a man, with a broken nose.
Intriguing one for sure.
There are more but I decided against checking the lyrics as I felt that if I had to look a song up, the opening line wouldn’t have had that much of an impact on me.
Can we do one about the worst/most underwhelming opening lines?
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Go for it!
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The sky is crying the streets are full of tears
Rain come down wash away my fears
beaut!