(7) Long Cool Girl (5:05)

[Throttle]

But also a charm of the hidden meaning is gone.

I understand perfectly well, what do you mean.
I also love to dig in the inner recesses of meanings and rake over fallen leaves.

And yet... there's hardly anything as touching as an elderly couple that's still keeping the freshness of their feelings, staying forever young for each other.

First I was touched to tears, and then it turned out that it's my favourite song from Tracker. 

[Knopflerfan]

Yes I agree, this song is getting a firm fave now....
Heard it being played in my local HMV yesterday and people were 'bopping' along to it!!

[Ingo]

For me the lyrics only make sense with regard to Kitty

Apparently, a broad hint at that is the line 'Me and you we’re 3 and 2'

I am not really convinced of 2 and 3 standing for the number of  marriages.
I guess Mark is refering to some mythology of numbers, e.g. in Chinese Daoism philosophy 2 stands for polarity (yin and yang) while the 3 (heaven / earth / man) stands for resolving polarity. Both numbers are essential for themselves but will combine to be 'more', like me and you, or man & woman, hope this makes some sense

[rudiger]

I am not really convinced of 2 and 3 standing for the number of  marriages.
I guess Mark is refering to some mythology of numbers, e.g. in Chinese Daoism philosophy 2 stands for polarity (yin and yang) while the 3 (heaven / earth / man) stands for resolving polarity. Both numbers are essential for themselves but will combine to be 'more', like me and you, or man & woman, hope this makes some sense

I definitely prefer this interpretation. The previous one is not very.....romantic 

[Nick14]

After Broken Bones, this is my least favourite song on the album right now - wonder if that will change in time?!

[dmg]

After Broken Bones, this is my least favourite song on the album right now - wonder if that will change in time?!

I'm still not liking this one either.  Dullsville.

[Fletch]

I am not really convinced of 2 and 3 standing for the number of  marriages.
I guess Mark is refering to some mythology of numbers, e.g. in Chinese Daoism philosophy 2 stands for polarity (yin and yang) while the 3 (heaven / earth / man) stands for resolving polarity. Both numbers are essential for themselves but will combine to be 'more', like me and you, or man & woman, hope this makes some sense

I definitely prefer this interpretation. The previous one is not very.....romantic 

I really think it's about Aluminum and Oxygen bonding together, you need three of one and two of the other, one is shiny the other is a diatomic gas - it all makes sense the more you think about it.

[Throttle]

I feel uneasy, occupying the whole topic, but nearly forgot to mention that Long Cool Girl vaguely resembles me My Claim to Fame.
Thanks for your angelic patience.

[herlock]

I feel uneasy, occupying the whole topic, but nearly forgot to mention that Long Cool Girl vaguely resembles me My Claim to Fame.
Thanks for your angelic patience.

I personnally think it resembles Six Blade Knife

[Knopflerfan]

Up Beat - Romeo and Juliet....

[koobaa]

Funny how it works. First time I heard this track I immediately thought about the slow-down section of live versions of Sultans, you know the part that builds up from the very slow only-piano part to a faster pace three chord symphony which explodes later into the playout of SOS. Mark plays this little theme there that just fits perfectly into those first few bars of Long Cool Girl. The key and chord sequence is the same too.

So there it is, another DS link / association in this brilliant song.

[Knopflerfan]

Good points there koobaa. 

[Fletch]

I feel uneasy, occupying the whole topic, but nearly forgot to mention that Long Cool Girl vaguely resembles me My Claim to Fame.
Thanks for your angelic patience.

I personnally think it resembles Six Blade Knife

I sang Cry Baby Cry over it (it fits perfectly to me) and my wife said, are you mad?? It's amazing what we hear.

[dustyvalentino]

By the time Mark meet Kitty I think that is a 'complete man' in is own, I remember songs like in GH or Whoop de doo, all tracks that say one thing at the world: I am a happy man with my Long cool girl.
bye

Um, Whoop De Doo isn't a happy song about Kitty...

[Lis]

I absolutely love this song.  It is magic.  It's a soft, cool breeze on an Autumn's evening -- I love the groove.