Mark Knopfler - What It Is

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[00:01.94]Mark Knopfler

[00:32.28]Drinking dens are spilling out

[00:33.98]There's staggering in the square

[00:36.17]There's lads and lasses falling about

[00:37.97]And a crackling in the air

[00:40.49]Down around the dungeon doors

[00:41.87]The shelters in the queues

[00:44.43]Everybody's looking for

[00:45.74]Somebody's arms to fall into

[00:47.90]And it's what it is

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[00:51.54]It's what it is now

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[00:55.48]There's frost on the graves and the monuments

[00:57.54]But the taverns are warm in town

[01:00.11]People curse the government

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[01:01.71]And shovel hot food down

[01:03.81]The lights are out in city hall

[01:05.43]The castle and the keep

[01:07.65]The moon shines down upon it all

[01:09.48]The legless and asleep

[01:12.00]And it′s cold on a tollgate

[01:13.36]With the wagons creeping through

[01:15.89]Cold on a tollgate

[01:17.25]God knows what I could do with you

[01:19.22]And It′s what it is

[01:22.77]It′s what it is now

[01:27.24]The garrison sleeps and the citadel

[01:28.99]With the ghosts and the ancient stones

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[01:31.61]High up on the parapet

[01:32.98]A Scottish piper stands alone

[01:35.56]And high on the wind

[01:36.67]The highland drums begin to roll

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[01:39.43]And something from the past just comes

[01:40.89]And stares into my soul

[01:42.10]And it′s cold on a tollgate

[01:44.87]Where the Caledonian blues

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[01:47.38]Cold on a tollgate

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[01:48.81]God knows what I could do with you

[01:50.94]And It′s what it is

[01:53.74]It′s what it is now

[01:58.44]What it is

[02:02.34]It′s what it is now

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[02:38.02]There′s a chink of light

[02:39.19]There′s a lantern in the tower

[02:39.21]There′s a burning wick

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[02:42.00]Wee Willie Winkie with a candlestick

[02:43.84]Still writing songs in the wee wee hours

[02:45.73]On Charlotte Street I take

[02:47.52]A walking stick from my hotel

[02:50.51]The ghost of Dirty Dick

[02:51.77]Is still in search of Little Nell

[02:53.37]And it′s what it is

[02:57.42]It′s what it is now

[02:59.11]Oh it′s what it is

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[03:05.34]What it is now