[ti:Tunnel Of Love]
[ar:Mark Knopfler]
[al:The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler - Private Investigations]
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[00:00.40]Tunnel Of Love - Mark Knopfler
[00:41.38]Getting crazy on the waltzers
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[00:44.85]But it's the life that I choose
[00:47.22]
[00:49.20]Yeah sing about the sixblade
[00:51.52]Sing about the switchback and a torture tattoo
[00:55.36]And I been riding on a ghost train
[00:57.71]
[00:58.85]Where the cars they scream and slam
[01:01.44]
[01:02.20]And I don't know where I'll be tonight
[01:04.48]
[01:06.62]But I'd always tell you where I am
[01:09.43]In a screaming ring of faces
[01:11.97]
[01:12.71]I seen her standing in the light
[01:14.70]
[01:16.22]She had a ticket for the races just like me
[01:20.37]She was a victim of the night
[01:22.46]
[01:23.16]I put my hand upon the lever
[01:25.19]
[01:26.46]Said let it rock and let it roll
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[01:30.07]I had the one arm bandit fever
[01:32.95]
[01:34.34]There was an arrow through my heart and my soul
[01:37.19]And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
[01:44.29]
[01:44.87]And I'm just high on the world
[01:46.99]
[01:47.77]Come on and take a low ride with me girl
[01:52.04]On the tunnel of love
[01:53.91]
[01:54.55]Yeah yeah
[01:56.95]
[01:59.00]It's just the danger danger when you're riding at your own risk
[02:04.37]
[02:05.04]She said you are the perfect stranger
[02:07.62]
[02:09.49]She said baby let's keep it like this
[02:12.04]
[02:12.86]It's just a cakewalk twisting baby step right up and say
[02:19.08]
[02:20.82]Hey mister give me two give me two cos any two can play
[02:25.65]
[02:26.27]And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
[02:33.17]
[02:33.81]And I'm just high on the world
[02:36.07]
[02:36.78]Come on and take a low ride with me girl
[02:40.50]
[02:41.03]On the tunnel of love
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[02:44.01]Oh love
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[02:47.98]Well it's been money for muscle another whirligig
[02:51.79]
[02:52.53]Money for muscle another girl I dig
[02:55.99]Another hustle just to just to make it big
[02:59.20]And rockaway rockaway
[03:00.86]
[03:02.21]Oh rockaway rockaway
[03:04.67]
[03:05.65]And girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did
[03:11.35]
[03:12.79]Oh like the Spanish city to me when we were kids
[03:18.14]
[03:19.70]Oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did
[03:25.62]
[03:26.64]Oh like the Spanish city to me when we were kids
[03:32.61]
[04:06.99]She took off a silver locket she said remember me by this
[04:12.54]
[04:13.72]She put her hand in my pocket I got a keepsake and a kiss
[04:20.04]
[04:20.60]And in the roar of dust and diesel
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[04:24.14]I stood and watched her walk away
[04:26.00]
[04:29.20]I could have caught up with her easy enough
[04:31.71]
[04:32.22]But something must have made me stay
[04:34.59]And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
[04:41.64]
[04:42.21]And I'm just high on the world
[04:44.49]
[04:45.11]Come on and take a low ride with me girl
[04:48.61]
[04:49.26]On the tunnel of love
[04:51.17]
[04:51.83]Yeah love love
[04:54.65]
[04:56.21]On the tunnel of love
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[04:58.78]Oh love love
[05:01.52]
[05:03.08]And now I'm searching through these carousels
[05:05.32]And the carnival arcades
[05:06.76]
[05:07.34]Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades
[05:10.65]In any shooting gallery where promises are made
[05:14.15]To rockaway rockaway rockaway rockaway from cullercoats
[05:22.27]And whitley bay out to rockaway
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[05:28.20]And girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did
[05:34.86]
[05:35.93]Like the Spanish city to me when we were kids
[05:42.52]
[05:43.54]Girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did
[05:50.85]Like the Spanish city to me when we were kids
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