Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Heart Full Of Holes, artist - Mark Knopfler.
Date of issue: 31.12.2006
Song language: English
Heart Full Of Holes |
You can tell me your troubles |
I’ll listen for free |
My regulars trust me, it seems |
You can come and see Uncle |
To get through the week |
Leave your pledges with me to redeem |
Some folk sell their bodies |
For ten bob a go Politicians go pawning their souls |
Which doesn’t make me Look too bad, don’t you know |
Me, with my heart full of holes |
All my yesterdays broken |
A watch with no face |
All battered and old |
Bits of the movement |
All over the place |
And a heart full of holes |
A heart full of holes |
A heart full of holes |
Brass knuckles and banjos |
Are out on the town |
At the knees-up |
In Teddy Boys’Row |
The gold block and tackle |
Tells the time upside down |
Rock n’roll — well, I don’t know |
Dead people’s wedding gifts |
Walk out the door |
A clarinet squeals to be free |
Accordions hop |
From the shelves to the floor — |
Start playing their polkas to me There’s a ringing of bells |
A dunderhead’s curse |
Fingers are pointing at you |
And you take work in hell |
And be glad it’s not worse |
And you get to the back of the queue |
Handcuffs and hunting knives |
Clang on the bars |
Air pistols shoot out the lights |
I’ve a whole Wailing Wall |
Of electric guitars |
Could shatter the windows |
Down Brick Lane tonight |
If one of us dies, love |
I think I’ll retire |
See my boys and my beautiful girls |
A Garden of Eden |
No gates or barbed wire |
Who knows, maybe gates made of pearls |
Well, if we go to heaven |
And some say we don’t |
But if there’s a reckoning day |
Please God, I’ll see you |
And maybe I won’t |
I’ve a bag packed to go either way |
Redeeming your pledge, dear |
I’ll keep it for you |
It’s not going to go anywhere |
But your soul, your soul |
That is not what I do There’s not a lot I can do there |
I remember the officer’s watch |
In my hand: |
'Repair it or die’I was told |
It’s a wonder to me — |
I still don’t understand |
Why I ever survived to be old |
With a heart full of holes |
A heart full of holes |
A heart full of holes |