This "connections" thing could maybe a thread of its own.
In some interviews, MK talked about stereotypical characters coming back every now and then: the MFN "meathead" somehow reappers in Bacon Roll, I think it was, and a few other songs. He said something like: "I haven't finished with him."
Another connection is Brothers In Arms and Piper To The End - it's the same idea, but Piper is much more specific and personal, like many of his solo songs.
Hmmmm yes but I was more after very concrete connections. For example when he mentions the Colins and Bobs and how hardboiled he has become, that's a direct connection to the young copy boy in Basil. The Lady in Along A Foreign Coast is mentioned in "to lay with pretty women..." in Privateering. The connection from Sky And Water with let's say So Far From The Clyde is not enough for me only because it's about a ship 
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Robson made a very good point about Watch Me Gone and Laugh and Jokes.
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You're quite right, of course. Those are direct connections between the same people or characters.
But I still find it interesting how similar images and ideas keep coming up in the songs, or similar types of characters, like for example the happy-go-lucky type of guy in Matchstick Man, Laughs and Jokes, Get Lucky and even Skydiver. It's not the same guy of course, but they have similar personalities.
I can mostly see three types of people that keep coming back: a) the carefree and slightly chaotic type of Get Lucky, b) the meathead/asshole/redneck sort of guy and c) the underdog guy who tries his best to cope in life but is really going nowhere because of the circumstances.
@ Thanks, superval. That's the one I meant!
