Tunnel Of Love – English Lyrics

• By: Dire Straits
• Album: Alchemy: Dire Straits Live

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

("Tunnel of Love" by Dire Straits")

♪ Getting crazy on the waltzers ♪

♪ But it's the life that I choose ♪

♪ Hey, sing about the six blade, sing about the switchback ♪

♪ And a torture tattoo ♪

♪ And I've been riding on a ghost train ♪

♪ Where the cars, they scream and slam ♪

♪ And I don't know where I'll be tonight ♪

♪ But I'd always tell you where I am ♪

♪ In a screaming ring of faces ♪

♪ I seen her standing in the light ♪

♪ She had a ticket for the races ♪

♪ Yeah, just like me, she was a victim of the night ♪

♪ I put my hand upon the lever ♪

♪ Said let it rock and let it roll ♪

♪ I had the one-arm bandit fever ♪

♪ There was an arrow through my heart and my soul ♪

♪ And the big wheel keep on turnin' ♪

♪ Neon burnin' up above ♪

♪ And I'm just high on the world ♪

♪ Come on and take a low ride with me, girl ♪

♪ On the tunnel of love ♪

♪ Yeah, love ♪

♪ It's just a danger ♪

♪ When you're riding at your own risk ♪

♪ She said, "You are the perfect stranger" ♪

♪ She said, "Baby, let's keep it like this" ♪

♪ It's just a cakewalk, twisting, baby ♪

♪ Yeah, step right up and say ♪

♪ "Hey mister, give me two, give me two now ♪

♪ 'Cause any two can play" ♪

♪ And the big wheel keep on turning ♪

♪ Neon burnin' up above ♪

♪ And I'm just high on the world ♪

♪ Come on and take a low ride with me, girl ♪

♪ On the tunnel of love ♪

♪ Oh love, love ♪

♪ Well it's been money for muscle on another whirligig ♪

♪ Money for muscle and another girl I dig ♪

♪ Another hustle just to ♪

♪ Just to make it big and rock away, rock away ♪

♪ Oh rock away, rock away ♪

♪ And girl, it looks so pretty to me ♪

♪ Like it always did ♪

♪ Oh, like the Spanish city to me ♪

♪ When we were kids ♪

♪ Yeah, girl, it looks so pretty to me ♪

♪ Just like it always did ♪

♪ Oh, like the Spanish city to me ♪

♪ When we were kids ♪

♪ Woh la ♪

♪ Check it out ♪

♪ She took off her silver locket ♪

♪ She said, "Remember me by this" ♪

♪ She put her hand in my pocket ♪

♪ I got a keepsake and a kiss ♪

♪ And in the roar of dust and diesel ♪

♪ I stood and watched her walk away ♪

♪ I could have caught up with her easy enough ♪

♪ But something must have made me stay ♪

♪ And the big wheel keep on turning ♪

♪ Neon burnin' up above ♪

♪ And I'm just high on this world ♪

♪ Come on and take a low ride with me, girl ♪

♪ On the tunnel of love ♪

♪ Yea love, love ♪

♪ On the tunnel of love ♪

♪ Whoa love, love ♪

♪ Yeah, now I'm searchin' through these carousels ♪

♪ And the carnival arcades ♪

♪ Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades ♪

♪ In any shooting gallery where promises are made ♪

♪ To rock away, rock away ♪

♪ Rock away, rock away ♪

♪ From Cullercoats to Whitley Bay ♪

♪ And to rock away ♪

♪ And, girl it looks so pretty to me ♪

♪ Like it always did ♪

♪ Like the Spanish city to me ♪

♪ When we were kids ♪

♪ Girl, it looks so pretty to me ♪

♪ Like it always did ♪

♪ Like the Spanish city to me ♪

♪ When we were kids ♪

(music fades)