Heart Full Of Holes - Mark Knopfler You can tell me your troubles, Ill listen for free My regulars trust me, seems You can come and see Uncle to get through the week Leave your pledges with me to redeem Some folk sell their bodies for ten bob a go Politicians go pawning their souls Which doesnt make me look too bad, dont you know Me with my heart full of holes All my yesterdays broken, a watch with no face All battered and old Bits of the movement all over the place And a heart full of holes A heart full of holes Heart full of holes A heart full of holes Heart full of holes Brass knuckles and banjos are out on the town At the knees-up in Teddy Boys Row The gold block and tackle tells the time upside down Rock n roll, well, I dont know Dead peoples wedding gifts, walk out the door A clarinet squeals to be free Accordions hop from the shelves to the floor Start playing their polkas to me Theres a ringing of bells, a dunderheads curse Fingers are pointing at you And you take work in hell, be glad its not worse And you get to the back of the queue Handcuffs and hunting knives clang on the bars Air pistols shoot out the lights Ive a whole wailing wall of electric guitars Could shatter the windows down Brick Lane tonight If one of us dies, love, I think Ill retire See my boys and my beautiful girls Garden of Eden, no gates or barbed wire Who knows, maybe gates made of pearls Well, if we go to heaven, and some say we dont But if theres a reckoning day Please God, Ill see You and maybe I wont Ive a bag packed to go either way Redeeming your pledge, dear, Ill keep it for you Its not gonna go anywhere But your soul, your soul, that is not what I do Theres not a lot I can do there I remember the officers watch in my hand Repair it or die I was told Its a wonder to me, I still dont understand Why I ever survived to be old With a heart full of holes Heart full of holes A heart full of holes Heart full of holes A heart full of holes Heart full of holes A heart full of holes Heart full of holes