Escrita por Mark Knopfler e com introdução composta por Richard Rodgers e Oscar Hammerstein II (do musical Carousel), foi gravada entre junho e agosto de 1980 e lançada em 17 de outubro de 1980, no disco Making movies, o terceiro disco da banda. Sairia também em compacto, em 24 de outubro de 1980, em compacto que trazia o restanta da música no Lado B. Foi produzida por Jimmy Iovine e Mark Knopfler. Fala do Spanish City, um parque de diversões localizado em Whitley Bay. O narrador enconra uma jovem num parque de diversões`, fica com ela um tempo mas depois ela vai embora. Chegou ao número 54 no Reino Unido, número 7 na Itália e número 11 na Espanha. Mark Knopfler cantou e tocou guitarra. John Illsley tocou baixo e fez backing vocals. Pick Withers tocou bateria e fez backing vocals. Roy Bittan tocou piano e orgão Hammond e Sid McGinnis tocou guitarra.
A letra:
Getting
crazy on the waltzers
But it's the life that I choose
Hey, sing
about the six-blade, sing about the switchback
And a torture
tattoo
And I've been riding on a ghost train
Where the cars
they scream and slam
And I don't know where I'll be tonight
But
I'd always tell you where I am
In a screaming ring of faces
I've
seen her standing in the light
She had a ticket for the races,
yeah
Just like me she was a victim of the night
I put a hand
upon the lever
Said, "Let it rock and let it roll"
I
had the one arm bandit fever
There was an arrow through my heart
and my soul
And the big wheel keep on turning
Neon burning
up above
And I'm just high on the world
Come on and take a low
ride with me girl
On the tunnel of love
Yeah, love
It's
just the danger, danger when you're riding at your own risk
She
said, "You are the perfect stranger"
She said, "Baby,
let's keep it like this"
It's just a cake walk, twisting
baby, yeah, step right up and say
"Hey Mister, give me two,
give me two now, 'cause any two can play"
And the big
wheel keep on turning
Neon burning up above
And I'm just high
on the world
Come on and take a low ride with me girl
On the
tunnel of love
Oh, love, love
Well, it's been money for
muscle on another whirligig
Money for muscle and another girl I
dig
Another hustle just to, just to make it big
And rock away,
rock away
Oh, rock away, rock away
And girl, it looks so
pretty to me
Like it always did
Oh, like the Spanish City to
me
When-a we were kids
Hey girl, it looks so pretty to me
Just
like it always did
Oh, like the Spanish City to me
When-a we
were kids
Check it out!
She took off a silver
locket
She said, "Remember me by this"
She put her
hand in my pocket
I got a keepsake and a kiss
And in the roar
of dust and diesel
I stood and watched her walk away
I could
have caught up with her easy enough
But something must have made
me stay
And the big wheel keep on turning
Neon burning up
above
And I'm just high on the world
Come on and take a low
ride with me girl
On the tunnel of love
Yeah, love, love,
love
On the tunnel of love
Oh, love, love
And now I'm
searching through these carousels and the carnival arcades
Searching
everywhere from steeplechase to palisades
In any shooting gallery
where promises are made
To rock away, rock away
Rock away, rock
away
From Cullercoats and Whitley Bay
Out to rock away
And
girl, it looks so pretty to me
Like it always did
Like the
Spanish City to me
When we were kids
Girl, it looks so pretty
to me
Like it always did
Like the Spanish City to me
When we
were kids
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