Mark Knopfler: A Life in Songs Page #6

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there's no point stopping and thinking, "That's it".

It just doesn't work like that.

We're all as eager to learn as we ever were.

The beginning of Border Reiver needs to be a little quicker than we're doing it.

He is prolific, he just keeps on writing,

and as long as he does that, he'll keep wanting to record, and long may it continue.

What I try to do with a song is craft it.

I try and craft a song with...

with pride, and I try and make something that's going to last.

So many of his melodies sound like,

ancient, like something you can't put your finger on what it was,

but the first time you hear 'em, you feel a kinship with 'em.

At least that's how it hits me.

Sometimes you're not even sure what it is you're writing - it only becomes clear afterwards

what it is you were doing, and don't you love that?

People make their own pictures.

They have their own ideas of what a song is,

and the explanation is... not really necessary.

It's just going to spoil things.

# When I leave this world behind

# To another I will go

# But if there are no pipes

# In heaven

# I'll be going

# Down below

# If friends in time be severed

# Some day we will meet again

# And I'll return

# To leave you never

# Be a piper to the end. #

I'll go home in an hour or two, whatever it is now,

I'll take a look at the songs, probably, at some point.

I'll just take a look at them and see how they're getting on.

Chop a bit out, stick a bit in.

I love it.

When your dreams are come true, as it were,

they never come true quite the way that you think that they will.

Reality is never

what a dream is.

But it's better than nothing,

and I would still rather be trying to make my dreams come true.

I think that's still something to go for.

# Now I'm a-rambling through this meadow

# Happy as a man can be

# Think I'll just lay me down

under this old tree

# On and on we go

# Through this whole world a-shuffling

# If you've got a truffle dog

# You can go a-truffling

# And you might get lucky now and then

# You win some

# You might get lucky now and then

# Yeah, you win some. #

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