| Dire Straits – Lions Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It's just a word picture of Trafalgar Square on a weekday evening. The drunk old soldier isn't really significant, or a character in his own right, the point is the insignificance, that he is the only thing that happens. I don't think there's a connection between him and the fantasy "stranger in the night" About as much happens to the lions as happens to the girl. It sounds very negative, put like that, but I don't take it all that seriously: it's just a very atmospheric picture of a particular scene. |
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| Dire Straits – The Man's Too Strong Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The speaker is obviously some generic third-world dictator; he's saying that even when he had his armies and could rewrite history, he was still just an aging drummer boy, reacting to events with no real freedom. The scene in the courtyard I don't quite get. It sounds maybe like some early event that he couldn't emotionally recover from, maybe meeting someone who acted with more freedom. |
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| Dire Straits – It Never Rains Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It seems like a sequel to "Tunnel of Love". If you try to stay in the fairground (teenage romance) and grow older there, then it just becomes rain and years spent doing the rounds, and the romance ends badly. | |
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