Tuesday May 26, 2020 “Skateaway” Dire Straits

It almost feels like we might be slowly emerging from these dire straits.

I love a good story song and Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits consistently tells some fine ones accompanied by an enviably simple sounding but really complex skill on guitar. His story-telling abilities are likely a result of his studies in college as a journalism major and one of his early jobs was working for a newspaper where his first assignment was to write the obituary for Jimi Hendrix.

Knopfler is left handed but plays a right handed guitar and in an interview discussing his skills as a guitar player he suggested that he is embarrased playing with ‘real musicians’ because he feels he plays guitar like a plumber.

In addition to his writing and playing Mark Knopfler is an active producer having worked with people like Bob Dylan, Willy DeVille and Aztec Camera among many others. Dire Straits, once suggested to have been Princess Diana’s favorite band, have sold over 100 million albums/CDs, are members of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and have several Grammys.

Sit back and enjoy this ride with the Roller Girl.

Stay safe and well…the music always makes us want to be the story.

I seen a girl on a one way corridor
Stealing down a wrong way street
For all the world like an urban toreador
She had wheels on on her feet
Well the cars do the usual dances
Same old cruise and the kerbside crawl
But the roller girl she's taking chances
They just love to see her take them all

No fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd
In her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud

Hallelujah here she comes queen roller ball
Enchante what can I say don't care at all
You know she used to have to wait around
She used to be the lonely one
But now that she can skate around town
She's the only one

No fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd
In her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud
She gets rock n roll a rock n roll station
And a rock n roll dream
She's making movies on location
She don't know what it means
But the music make her want to be the story
And the story was whatever was the song what it was
Roller girl don't worry
D.j. play the movies all night long

She tortures taxi drivers just for fun
She like to read their lips
Says toro toro taxi see ya tomorrow my son
I swear she let a big truck grease her hip
She got her own world in the city
You can't intrude on her
She got her own world in the city
'cause the city's benn so rude to her

No fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd
In her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud
She gets rock n roll a rock n roll station
And a rock n roll dream
She's making movies on location
She don't know what it means
But the music make her want to be the story
And the story was whatever was the song what it was
Roller girl don't worry
D.j. play the movies all night long

Come slipping and sliding
Life's roller ball
Slipping and a sliding
Skate away that's all
Shala shalay hey hey skate away
She's going singing shala shalay hey hey
Skate away