| Mark Knopfler – The Fizzy and the Still Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| How about this? It's a song about a newspaper story, with accompanying photo, that Knopfler was reading one Sunday morning. It was an interview with a Brit who'd gone over the Hollywood and had now come back. The storyline was that he'd done well, but Hollywood had asked too high a price of him. It wasn't for him because he wasn't cut out for a life of fame. But there's chilled bottles of still and fizzy water sitting on the table between him and the interviewer, a symbol of the perks associated with the media attention that, even if he won't admit it to the interviewer, he really does crave. So it's not that he couldn't deal with the lifestyle, as he's telling the interviewer. The real reason he's back is simply that "he tried but didn't make it there". | |
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