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Stepping out to angellucci’s for my coffee beans
Checking out the movies and the magazines
Waitress she watches me crossing from the barocco bar
I’m getting a pickup for my steel guitar
I saw you walking out shaftesbury avenue
Excuse me for talking I wanna marry you
This is the seventh heaven street to me
Don’t be so proud
You’re just another angel in the crowd
And I’m walking in he wild west end
Walking with your wild best friend
And my conductress on the number nineteen
She was a honey
Pink toenails and hands all dirty with money
Greasy hair easy smile
Made me feel nineteen for a while
Amd wi went down to chinatown
In the backroom it’s a man’s world
All the money go down
Duck inside the doorway gotta duck to eat
Right now feels alright now
You and me we can’t beat
And a gogo dancing girl yes I saw her
The deejay he say here’s mandy for ya
I feel alright to see her
But she’s paid to do that stuff
She’s dancing high I move on by
The close ups can get rough
When you’re walking in the wild west end
Checking out the movies and the magazines
Waitress she watches me crossing from the barocco bar
I’m getting a pickup for my steel guitar
I saw you walking out shaftesbury avenue
Excuse me for talking I wanna marry you
This is the seventh heaven street to me
Don’t be so proud
You’re just another angel in the crowd
And I’m walking in he wild west end
Walking with your wild best friend
She was a honey
Pink toenails and hands all dirty with money
Greasy hair easy smile
Made me feel nineteen for a while
Amd wi went down to chinatown
In the backroom it’s a man’s world
All the money go down
Duck inside the doorway gotta duck to eat
Right now feels alright now
You and me we can’t beat
The deejay he say here’s mandy for ya
I feel alright to see her
But she’s paid to do that stuff
She’s dancing high I move on by
The close ups can get rough
When you’re walking in the wild west end
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Submitted by
dasch On Apr 17, 2004
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Just about the hustle and bustle of the hip West End of London and a man walking the streets and commenting on the people he meets. Perhaps it was Mark Knopfler's take on London when he and Dire Straits got their record deal? A lovely song though..
okay, here's the wrong approach to the song that came from my dad:
Its about the wild west, due to the English's love of the American Wild West.
No, its not. though the American Wild West is a highly liked topic in England, this song is not about that. its about an area of London, called the Wild West End, where you can go to pick up a girl. you can do the same thing as the carnival later discribed in Tunnel of Love, and the place Wild West End is also mentioned in the song Expresso Love.
@Rodan2000
@Rodan2000
You're both right. The area of London is simply the West End. There's no wild west end. There's a Wild West (in the US) and a West End (in London). He's drawing an analogy between the (long ago) craziness of what you might find in the West End by collapsing the term people use for the wildness of the American West together with it.
You're both right. The area of London is simply the West End. There's no wild west end. There's a Wild West (in the US) and a West End (in London). He's drawing an analogy between the (long ago) craziness of what you might find in the West End by collapsing the term people use for the wildness of the American West together with it.
One of my favourites by them also. Notice the little Chinese musical clip on the keyboards after the Chinatown lyrics? Nice placement. :)
Here are the correct lyrics.
Stepping out to Angellucci’s for my coffee beans Checking out the movies and the magazines A waitress she watches me crossing from the Barocco bar I get a pickup for my steel guitar I saw you walking out now Shaftesbury Avenue Excuse me for talking I wanna marry you This is the Seventh Heaven street Don’t you seem so proud You’re just another angel in the crowd And I’m walking in the wild west end Walking in the wild west end Walking with your wild best friend
Now my conductress on the number nineteen She was a honey(she was a honey) Pink toenails and hands all dirty with money Greasy greasy greasy hair easy smile She made me feel ah nineteen for a while I went down ch ch uh uh chinatown In the backroom it’s a man’s world All the money go down Duck inside the doorway duck to eat Just ain't no way--you and me--we can beat
Walking in the wild west end Walking in the wild west end Walking with your wild best friend
Now a a gogo dancing girl yes I saw her The DJ he say here’s Mandy for ya I feel alright to see her I feel alright seein' her do that stuff She’s dancing high an' I move on by The close ups can get rough When you’re walking in the wild west end
Hmmn . . I always thought the line was "She made me feel like a lion-tamer, awfully wild" instead of she made me feel like 19 for awhile . . .like he was talking sarcastically like he was saying "down girl" when in actuality it sounds like he was saying she was pretty . . anyway . .it is one of my favorite story songs . . .
Ahhhhhh. Favorite song by them. "Excuse me for talking I want to marry you" aahhhhhh Have you seen how he performs it? Amazing
this is my favorite dire straits and im pretty shure rodan is right