(19) Your leading man

[stratmad]

Some post seems to have disappeared in this thread. Or have you started a new one?

[Jules]

Some post seems to have disappeared in this thread. Or have you started a new one?

No, this one is the original, but Knopflerfan duplicated all the LP bonus threads to include the lyrics, instead of using the original ones, so most of the bonus tracks have duplicated threads, the original ones that I created, and the ones created after by Knopflerfan.

I suggest to the mods to merge them.

[dustyvalentino]

Some post seems to have disappeared in this thread. Or have you started a new one?

No, this one is the original, but Knopflerfan duplicated all the LP bonus threads to include the lyrics, instead of using the original ones, so most of the bonus tracks have duplicated threads, the original ones that I created, and the ones created after by Knopflerfan.

I suggest to the mods to merge them.

Done

[Jules]

Some post seems to have disappeared in this thread. Or have you started a new one?

No, this one is the original, but Knopflerfan duplicated all the LP bonus threads to include the lyrics, instead of using the original ones, so most of the bonus tracks have duplicated threads, the original ones that I created, and the ones created after by Knopflerfan.

I suggest to the mods to merge them.

Done

Great work!

[Robson]

Very nice guitar. Do I hear echoes of So Far Away?

[Nick14]

Yes! see my earlier post on page 1 of this thread. Very much so.

[Robson]

Really loving this song, especially the So Far Away chord slides. A relative of Your Perfect Song.

Yes!

[dustyvalentino]

Aaaand... after three listens this one is now stuck in my head!

It's interesting how songs that appear unremarkable at first listen can go on to become favourites.

Now, if we weren't already huge MK fans and we weren't struck by a song at first listen we wouldn't keep going back for more.

I wonder if I listened to the new Taylor Swift album multiple times I would start getting favourites from that one 

[Knopflerfan]

Aaaand... after three listens this one is now stuck in my head!

It's interesting how songs that appear unremarkable at first listen can go on to become favourites.

Now, if we weren't already huge MK fans and we weren't struck by a song at first listen we wouldn't keep going back for more.

I wonder if I listened to the new Taylor Swift album multiple times I would start getting favourites from that one 

Taylor Swift??? Who is he??

[Love Expresso]

Aaaand... after three listens this one is now stuck in my head!

It's interesting how songs that appear unremarkable at first listen can go on to become favourites.

Now, if we weren't already huge MK fans and we weren't struck by a song at first listen we wouldn't keep going back for more.

I wonder if I listened to the new Taylor Swift album multiple times I would start getting favourites from that one 

I wonder what it is about. Pot Smoking?

LE

[dustyvalentino]

Aaaand... after three listens this one is now stuck in my head!

It's interesting how songs that appear unremarkable at first listen can go on to become favourites.

Now, if we weren't already huge MK fans and we weren't struck by a song at first listen we wouldn't keep going back for more.

I wonder if I listened to the new Taylor Swift album multiple times I would start getting favourites from that one 

I wonder what it is about. Pot Smoking?

LE

My interpretation:

He's talking about what all the "ordinary" people are doing while he's flying about in his private jet on tour, but he still wishes he was with Kitty.

[Love Expresso]

Thank you.

Thematically, the So Far Away echo indeed makes sense as it would be a similar setting (being away on tour/work, missing her)   but loaded with much more love and less making out on the telephone 

LE

[Robson]

Maybe this song was written by Mark a long time ago when he was still on tour

[Stanko]

Reminds me of Eastbound Train in terms of topic, except ET is so much more fun.

I'm still trying to understand the setting... Some middle-class family, golf, tea, planting flowers in allotments, kids at school?

He's talking about what all the "ordinary" people are doing while he's flying about in his private jet on tour, but he still wishes he was with Kitty.

Or rather how Kitty goes about her daily life (garden centers, picking up the kids, etc.) while Mark is away. The gardenkeeper, caretaker, etc. get to see her beauty. (Tall ... cool - long, cool girl), not Mark, who is away. And that he wants to be her leading man - a connection to Kitty's former career as an actress?

I feel like we're getting a snapshot of the Knopfler household here.

Agree on the others see her beauty, but he also says "they" so I think he is speaking about others in those bits.

On my first listen I would thought of a bum travelling in his dreams, like an one in ragpicker's dream lol

[Stanko]

As an non-native, with each new song you always get to learn few new words. This one includes: poized, doze off, muggy, saucers, and spilling out (in the term of people). I love that part too.