Glad am not the only one LE!!!!
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Maybe it is obvious, but can someone tell me what a "Silver Eagle" actually is? And his Silver Eagle passing... What is passing?
Thank you :wave
On the line “for blessings from above” I cant resist myself thinking about Old Pigweed.
Maybe it is obvious, but can someone tell me what a "Silver Eagle" actually is? And his Silver Eagle passing... What is passing?
Thank you :wave
I think "Silver Eagle" is Bob Dylan's tour bus. :)
I must be the only one who thinks it's an absolute boring song...
Good lyrics, OK
But the melody and the rhythm is plain.
Fortunately Beryl comes just after !
It may not be a song you would get excited about - but it is a song that I would get excited about! Depends on your taste.....I prefer this to Beryl for example....
Beautiful lyrics that I just translated in french today ...Is it possible that you share it?
Yes Pyroaction I try to do it later on or tomorrow, it's really hard to translate MK in french so I hope it will be ok. I already did the same thing for Lights of Taormina, Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes, Mighty Man, Basil and Terminal of Tribute to. Will put them on the french corner. :thumbsup :waveBeautiful lyrics that I just translated in french today ...Is it possible that you share it?
Hands up who's been brought to tears by this song???
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I am so moved by this song it's unreal!!!!
Maybe his best ever for me, the music perfectly fits the lyrics and you can just see the lyrics staring right at you!!!
Thank you Mark Knopfler for this beautiful gift!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hands up who's been brought to tears by this song???
:wave
I am so moved by this song it's unreal!!!!
Maybe his best ever for me, the music perfectly fits the lyrics and you can just see the lyrics staring right at you!!!
Thank you Mark Knopfler for this beautiful gift!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:wave
Yes Pyroaction I try to do it later on or tomorrow, it's really hard to translate MK in french so I hope it will be ok. I already did the same thing for Lights of Taormina, Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes, Mighty Man, Basil and Terminal of Tribute to. Will put them on the french corner. :thumbsup :waveBeautiful lyrics that I just translated in french today ...Is it possible that you share it?
I wonder if old Bob will hear this and shed a tear or two. I think he will.
The song might end up being my favourite from tracker, even before Taormina. And that's IN SPITE of the synth layer that was forced upon it; can you believe it?!
Haul away/Dream of the Drowned Submariner?
"Silver Eagle" is a make of motor coaches. So I guess the song is about some bus driver, and has nothing to do with Bob Dylan.Maybe it is obvious, but can someone tell me what a "Silver Eagle" actually is? And his Silver Eagle passing... What is passing?
Thank you :wave
I think "Silver Eagle" is Bob Dylan's tour bus. :)
Notoriously fastidious, Knopfler says he has Bob Dylan to partly thank for Tracker. Knopfler toured as Dylan's opening act in Europe in 2011, followed by a swing through the States the following year. Two songs on Tracker, "Silver Eagle" (named after the iconic line of tour buses) and "Lights of Taormina," were written during those dates. "I wouldn't have written those songs without doing two tours with Bob on buses," he says.
During those tours, Knopfler would often join Dylan and his band for the first four songs of Dylan's set, playing along with "Tangled Up in Blue," "Things Have Changed," and other Dylan songs. "Bob was quite thoughtful about it," Knopfler says. "I'd play and then change my shirt and jump with Bob and his band. I'd play about four songs and then I'd get on my coach and get on down the road and get a running start on Bob. Then they'd get on their buses and come on down the road after us." (In the CD booklet for Tracker, Knopfler included a photo of him and Dylan at the microphone, from earlier tours, as a nod to those collaborations.)
"Silver Eagle" is a make of motor coaches. So I guess the song is about some bus driver, and has nothing to do with Bob Dylan.Maybe it is obvious, but can someone tell me what a "Silver Eagle" actually is? And his Silver Eagle passing... What is passing?
Thank you :wave
I think "Silver Eagle" is Bob Dylan's tour bus. :)
The lyrics and musicarrangments on this song are very moving. I don't know what it exactly is that brings tears in my eyes but for me one of my favorites from this album.
I apologize for not researching this first, but hoping someone has an easy answer... Did Bob/Mark also use the Silver Eagle in Europe, or was this just a N America thing? :thinkWell Lis, I am not really answering your question, but it brings to mind an observation I made at one of the concerts in NA. We were all standing in the lobby, waiting to be allowed into the hall and were actually being treated to MK's sound check (Kingdom of Gold, no less) when a big, silver/black bus drove right past where we were standing and someone in the crowd stated, "Here comes Bob." I could be wrong but I never got the idea that Bob and Mark traveled together "on the bus". MK and Company had their set of buses and the Dylan folks moved in a parallel universe, so to speak. ;)
The lyrics and musicarrangments on this song are very moving. I don't know what it exactly is that brings tears in my eyes but for me one of my favorites from this album.
Listening the whole day...can't stop! Definitely my favorite from the album along My Herat Never Change! ????????
The lyrics and musicarrangments on this song are very moving. I don't know what it exactly is that brings tears in my eyes but for me one of my favorites from this album.
Listening the whole day...can't stop! Definitely my favorite from the album along My Herat Never Change! ????????
Same here, Slavi. My two favourites :)
The lyrics and musicarrangments on this song are very moving. I don't know what it exactly is that brings tears in my eyes but for me one of my favorites from this album.
Listening the whole day...can't stop! Definitely my favorite from the album along My Herat Never Change! ????????
Same here, Slavi. My two favourites :)
Hehe, it's great!
Must admit over the years I love more and more MK's slow and tenders songs ??
The lyrics and musicarrangments on this song are very moving. I don't know what it exactly is that brings tears in my eyes but for me one of my favorites from this album.
Listening the whole day...can't stop! Definitely my favorite from the album along My Herat Never Change! ????????
Same here, Slavi. My two favourites :)
Hehe, it's great!
Must admit over the years I love more and more MK's slow and tenders songs ??
That's a sign of old age Slavi! ;) Listen to the faster songs and stay young at heart! ;D
That's a sign of old age Slavi! ;) Listen to the faster songs and stay young at heart! ;D
Well, agree! But especially in Tracker imho the slow songs are better if we even could talk about faster here. Still listening often ( and dancing at) Don't You Get It...another one my all time favorite.
Lovely that you like Don't You Get It.....Marks guitar is on fire in that song ;)The lyrics and musicarrangments on this song are very moving. I don't know what it exactly is that brings tears in my eyes but for me one of my favorites from this album.
Listening the whole day...can't stop! Definitely my favorite from the album along My Herat Never Change! ????????
Same here, Slavi. My two favourites :)
Hehe, it's great!
Must admit over the years I love more and more MK's slow and tenders songs ??
That's a sign of old age Slavi! ;) Listen to the faster songs and stay young at heart! ;D
Well, agree! But especially in Tracker imho the slow songs are better if we even could talk about faster here. Still listening often ( and dancing at) Don't You Get It...another one my all time favorite.
The lyrics and musicarrangments on this song are very moving. I don't know what it exactly is that brings tears in my eyes but for me one of my favorites from this album.
Listening the whole day...can't stop! Definitely my favorite from the album along My Herat Never Change! ????????
Same here, Slavi. My two favourites :)
Hehe, it's great!
Must admit over the years I love more and more MK's slow and tenders songs ??
Yeah! I love these songs too. Last August I cried my eyes out to Haul Away...one of my all time fav...isn't it amazing to have so many all time favorites songs by Mark! ;D ;D ;DThe lyrics and musicarrangments on this song are very moving. I don't know what it exactly is that brings tears in my eyes but for me one of my favorites from this album.
Listening the whole day...can't stop! Definitely my favorite from the album along My Herat Never Change! ????????
Same here, Slavi. My two favourites :)
Hehe, it's great!
Must admit over the years I love more and more MK's slow and tenders songs ??
Same here. However, I probably couldn't/wouldn't want to listen to such songs all day. I kind of try to save them for special occasions – because I know how emotionally I'm going to react. On each of Mark's solo albums, there seem to be one or two songs that I just can't listen to without starting to cry. Silver Eagle is the latest one, and before that: Follow the Ribbon, Seattle, The Car was the One, The Fish and the Bird, Beyond my Wildest Dreams, Back to Tupelo, Old Pigweed, The Long Highway, Je Suis Désolé ...
On the line “for blessings from above” I cant resist myself thinking about Old Pigweed.
Same here. Like a nail driven into the head. :wave
Help, please...Would wish to translate this song into my language for a friend of mine. For the first time I think about the meaning of the word "lay" in the verse...
"Half a mile from where she lay"
So, she lay in her bed waiting...or she passed (dead) and was put there?
Or it is something else??
... :smack :smack :smack