《Basil》歌词

[00:00:00] Basil - Mark Knopfler

[00:00:19] My Saturday job pays six and six down

[00:00:27] A copy boy at the Chronicle

[00:00:33] Five cigarettes and two silver half crowns

[00:00:41] Meeting Vince at Mark Toney's in town

[00:00:46] Boy do we get around

[00:00:55] Basil sits there on the table for subs

[00:01:03] But not a part of the Bri-nylon club

[00:01:08] Ancient blue sweater too old for the job

[00:01:15] Bored out of his mind

[00:01:17] With the Colins and Bobs

[00:01:21] I'm a jack and a lad

[00:01:26] And I'm up for the world

[00:01:31] And I've kissed a Gateshead girl

[00:01:43] He calls for a copy boy grumpy as hell

[00:01:51] Poets have to eat as well

[00:01:55] What he wouldn't give just to walk out today

[00:02:03] To have time to think about time

[00:02:08] And young love thrown away

[00:02:13] I'm a jack and a lad

[00:02:18] And I'm up for the world

[00:02:23] And I've kissed a Gateshead girl

[00:02:31] Starlings swarming

[00:02:36] A cloud over Grainger Street

[00:02:45] Over the black church

[00:02:49] Over the Black Gate

[00:02:54] And the shadowy Keep

[00:03:18] He peers through his wire rims

[00:03:21] At the fish and chip words

[00:03:26] He's supposed to dish up and forget

[00:03:31] His drudgery now has become slightly blurred

[00:03:38] By one of his Players untipped cigarettes

[00:03:44] Bury all joy

[00:03:49] Put the poems in sacks

[00:03:54] And bury me here with the hacks

[00:04:11] In the summer the fair

[00:04:13] Will stretch over the Moor

[00:04:18] Lovers will lie and make out in the park

[00:04:24] Basil puts on his old duffel and scarf

[00:04:32] And goes out into the dark