Dire Straits: Heavy Fuel, Calling Elvis, Sultans of Swing, Walk of Life, Romeo and Juliet

Posted on Apr 29, 2024 in English

Dire Straits – Heavy Fuel

Last time I was sober, man I felt bad
Worst hangover that I ever had
It took six hamburgers and scotch all night
Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right
‘Cos if you wanna run cool
If you wanna run cool
If you wanna run cool, you got to run
On heavy, heavy fuel

My life makes perfect sense
Lust and food and violence
Sex and money are my major kicks
Get me in a fight I like dirty tricks
‘Cos if you wanna run cool
Yes if you wanna run cool, you got to run
On heavy, heavy fuel

My chick loves a man who’s strong
The things she’ll do to turn me on
I love the babes, don’t get me wrong
Hey, that’s why I wrote this song

I don’t care if my liver is hanging by a thread
Don’t care if my doctor says I ought to be dead
When my ugly big car won’t climb this hill
I’ll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill
‘Cos if you wanna run cool
If you wanna run cool
Yes if you wanna run cool, you got to run
On heavy, heavy fuel

Dire Straits – Calling Elvis

Calling Elvis – is anybody home
Calling Elvis – I’m here all alone
Did he leave the building
Or can he come to the phone
Calling Elvis – I’m here all alone

Well tell him I was calling just to wish him well
Let me leave my number – heartbreak hotel
Oh love me tender – baby don’t be cruel
Return to sender – treat me like a fool

Calling Elvis – is anybody home
Calling Elvis – I’m here all alone
Did he leave the building
Or can he come to the phone
Calling Elvis – I’m here all alone

Why don’t you go get him – I’m his biggest fan
You gotta tell him – he’s still the man
Long distance baby – so far from home
Don’t you think maybe you could put him on

Well tell him I was calling just to wish him well
Let me leave my number – heartbreak hotel
Oh love me tender – baby don’t be cruel
Return to sender – treat me like a fool

Calling Elvis – is anybody home
Calling Elvis – I’m here all alone
Did he leave the building
Or can he come to the phone
Calling Elvis – I’m here all alone

Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing

You get a shiver in the dark, 
It’s a 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 the music ring
Well now you step inside but you don’t see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain they hear the jazz go down
Competition in other places
Uh but the horns they blowin’ that sound
Way on downsouth
Way on downsouth
London town

Check out guitar George, he knows-all the chords
Mind he’s strictly rhythm he doesn’t wanna make them cry or sing
They said 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
He can play the honky tonk like anything
Savin’ it up, for Friday night
With the sultans

We’re the sultans of swing

Then a crowd a young boys they’re a foolin’ around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles
They don’t give a damn about any trumpet playin’ band
It ain’t what they call rock and roll
Then the sultans
Yeah the sultans they play creole, creole
Lead 1:
And then the man he steps right up to the microphone
and says at last just as the time bell rings
Goodnight, now it’s time to go home
and he makes it fast with one more thing
We are the sultans
We are the sultans of swing
Now look at them yo-yo’s that’s the way you do it 
you play the guitar on the mtv 
that ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it 
money for nothin’ and chicks for free 
now that ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it 
lemme tell ya them guys ain’t dumb 
maybe get a blister on your little finger 
maybe get a blister on your thumb 
We gotta install microwave ovens 
custom kitchen deliveries 
we gotta move these refrigerators 
we gotta move these colour tv’s 
See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup 
yeah buddy that’s his own hair 
that little faggot got his own jet airplane 
that little faggot he’s a millionaire 
We gotta install microwave ovesns 
custom kitchens deliveries 
we gotta move these refrigerators I shoulda learned to play the guitar

_{i shoulda learned to play them drums 
look at that mama, she got it stickin’ in the camera 
man we could have some fun 
and he’s up there, what’s that? hawaiian noises? 
bangin’ on the bongoes like a chimpanzee 
that ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it 
get your money for nothin’ get your chicks for free 
We gotta install microwave ovens 
custom kitchen deliveries 
we gotta move these refrigerators 
we gotta move these colour tv’s, lord 
Now that ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it 
you play the guitar on the mtv 
that ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it 
money for nothin’ and your chicks for free 
money for nothin’ and chicks for free}

_{we gotta move these colour tv’s} 

_{I shoulda learned to play the guitar}

_{i shoulda learned to play them drums 
look at that mama, she got it stickin’ in the camera 
man we could have some fun 
and he’s up there, what’s that? hawaiian noises? 
bangin’ on the bongoes like a chimpanzee 
that ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it 
get your money for nothin’ get your chicks for free 
We gotta install microwave ovens 
custom kitchen deliveries 
we gotta move these refrigerators 
we gotta move these colour tv’s, lord 
Now that ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it 
you play the guitar on the mtv 
that ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it 
money for nothin’ and your chicks for free 
money for nothin’ and chicks for free}

<sub>Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies 
Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say 
Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman 
Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay 
He got the action, he got the motion 
Oh yeah, the boy can play 
Dedication devotion 
Turning all the night time into the day 

{Refrain} 
He do the song about the sweet lovin’ woman 
He do the song about the knife 
And he do the walk, he do the walk of life 
Yeah, he do the walk of life 

Here comes Johnny goin’ tell you the story 
Hand me down my walkin’ shoes 
Here come Johnny with the power and the glory 
Backbeat, the talkin’ blues 
He got the action, he got the motion 
Yeah, the boy can play 
Dedication devotion 
Turning all the night time into the day 

{Refrain} 

{Repeat first verse} 

And after all the violence and double talk 
There’s just a song in all the trouble and the strife 
You do the walk, you do the walk of life 
Hm, you do the walk of life</sub>

<sub>A lovestruck romeo sings the streets a 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 me 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?</sub>