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Lyrics for What It Is by Mark Knopfler:
| | | Artist: | Mark Knopfler |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | What It Is | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 56 | | | | Lyrics: | The drinking dens are spilling out
There's staggering in the square
There's lads and lasses
falling about
And a crackling in the air
Down around the dungeon doors
The shelters and
the queues
Everybody's looking for
Somebody's arms to fall into
And it's what it
is
It's what it is now
There's frost on the graves and the monuments
But the
taverns are warm in town
People Curse the government
And shovel hot food down
The lights
are out in the city hall
The castle and the keep
The moon shines down upon it all
The
legless and asleep
And it's cold on the tollgate
With the wagons creeping
through
Cold on the tollgate
God knows what I could do with you
And it's what it
is
It's what it is now
The garrison sleeps in the citadel
With the ghosts and the
ancient stones
High up on the parapet
A Scottish piper stands alone
And high on the
wind
The highland drums begin to roll
And something from the past just comes
And stares
into my soul
And it's cold on the tollgate
With the Caledonian Blues
Cold on the
tollgate
God knows what I could do with you
And it's what it is
It's what it is
now
What it is
It's what it is now
There's a chink of light, there's a burning
wick
There's a lantern in the tower
Wee Willie Winkie with a candlestick
Still writing
songs in the wee wee hours
On Charlotte Street I take
A walking stick from my hotel
The
ghost of Dirty Dick
Is still in search of Little Nell
And it's what it is
It's what it
is now
Oh what it is
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