This hotel room has been painted over with emulsion so many times that it seems to be smaller than it ought to be. I meet Jim in the breakfast room. We eat, then drive to a car park below the mountain. We put on our boots and climb gently for an hour or so. Leaning … Continue reading Elidir
Category: verse
Drive on
The cops are after you The car is battered And parts keep dropping off But you drive on In the end the car collapses In a steaming heap of wreckage The cops handcuff you The game is over But not until that moment Until then you drive on The old man would say to me … Continue reading Drive on
Mark Knopfler’s Romeo and Juliet – an analysis
For no particular reason I decided to learn the Dire Straits song "Romeo and Juliet" properly. Which means checking out the original chords (which I probably learned osmotically sometime around 1982), and correcting and memorising the words. I found a bug in my understanding of the chords for the last part of the chorus. Not … Continue reading Mark Knopfler’s Romeo and Juliet – an analysis
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