What It Is - Mark Knopfler

[00:00.2]What It Is - Mark Knopfler
[00:34.51]The drinking dens are spilling out
[00:36.14]There's staggering in the square
[00:37.87]There's lads and lasses falling about
[00:39.98]And a crackling in the air
[00:41.91]Down around the dungeon doors
[00:43.83]The shelters and the queues
[00:45.37]Everybody's looking for
[00:47.6]Somebody's arms to fall into
[00:50.1]That's what it is
[00:53.55]It's what it is now
[00:57.77]There's frost on the graves and the monuments
[00:59.72]But the taverns are warm in town
[01:01.5]People curse the government
[01:03.34]And shovel hot food down
[01:05.73]Lights are out in the city hall
[01:07.53]The castle and the keep
[01:08.979996]The moon shines down upon it all
[01:11.28]The legless and asleep
[01:13.82]And it's cold on the tollgate
[01:15.25]With the wagons creeping through
[01:16.9]Cold on the tollgate
[01:19.06]God knows what I could do with you
[01:20.66]That's what it is
[01:25.17]It's what it is now
[01:29.31]The garrison sleeps in the citadel
[01:30.99]With the ghosts and the ancient stones
[01:32.9]High on the parapet
[01:35.03]A Scottish piper stands alone
[01:37.119995]And high on the wind
[01:38.6]The highland drums begin to roll
[01:40.41]And something from the past just comes
[01:43.130005]And stares into my soul
[01:45.380005]And it's cold on the tollgate
[01:47.15]and THE DRUMS BEAT THEIR TATOO
[01:48.92]Cold on the tollgate
[01:50.36]God knows what I could do with you
[01:53.3]That's what it is
[01:56.8]It's what it is now
[02:00.27]What it is
[02:03.43]It's what it is now
[02:40.29001]There's a chink of light
[02:41.31]there's a burning wick
[02:42.29001]There's a lantern in the tower
[02:43.64]Wee Willie Winkie with a candlestick
[02:45.97]Still writing songs in the wee wee hours
[02:48.09]On Charlotte Street I take
[02:49.65]A WALKING stick for my hotel
[02:51.43]The ghost of Dirty Dick
[02:53.76]Is still in search of Little Nell
[02:56.02]That's what it is
[02:59.82]It's what it is now
[03:03.41]It's what it is
[03:07.68]What it is now…