Mark Knopfler - What It Is - Extended (Mexican Promotion) lyrics

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The drinking dens are spilling out

There's staggering in the square

There's lads and lasses fall 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

It's what it is

Thats'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 the sleepless

Cold on the tollgate

With the wagons creeping through

Cold on the tollgate

God knows what I could do with you

Thats's what it is

It's what it is now

The garrison sleeps in the citadel With the ghosts and the ancient stones

High 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

Cold on the tollgate let the drums beat the tattoo

Cold on the tollgate God knows what I can do with you

And it's what it is

It's what it is now

What it is

's What it is now

And the highwayman stands blowing on his fingers by the green

I've walked inside his shoes before so I always buy his magazine

He's with a local mystery with blood stains on her hands

I like the way she winks at me but I leave her with the highwayman

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

What it is now now now