2016 – Dire Straits – Skateaway (1980)

 

Escrita por Mark Knopfler, 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 dezembro de 1980 com Solid rock como Lado B. Foi produzida por Jimmy Iovine e Mark Knopfler. Fala de uma moça que andava de patins pela cidade e escutava um walk-man com fones de ouvido. Chegou ao número 58 no Billboard Hot100, número 37 no Reino Unido e número 47 na Nova Zelandia.

A letra:

I seen a girl on a one-way corridor
Stealing down a wrong-way street
For all the world like an urban toreador
She had wheels on, on her feet

Well, the cars do the usual dances
Same old cruise and the curbside crawl
But the roller girl, she's taking chances
They just love to see her take them all

No fear alone at night
She's sailing through the crowd
In her ears the phones are tight
And the music's playing loud

Hallelujah, here she comes
Queen rollerball
And enchanté, what can I say?
Don't care at all

You know, she used to have to wait around
She used to be the lonely one
But now that she can skate around town
She's the only, only one

No fear alone at night
She's sailing through the crowd
In her ears those phones are tight
And the music's playing loud

She gets rock 'n' roll and a rock 'n' roll station
And a rock 'n' roll dream
She's making movies on location
She don't know what it means

And the music make her wanna be the story
And the story was whatever was the song, what it was
Roller girl, don't worry
D.J. play the movies
All night long, all night long

She tortures taxi drivers just for fun
She likes to read their lips
Says, "Toro, toro, taxi, see ya tomorrow, my son"
I swear, she let a big truck grease her hip

Aw, she got her own world in the city, yeah
You can't intrude on her, no, no, no, no
She got her own world in the city
The city's been so rude to her

No fears alone at night
Sailing through the crowd
In her ears those phones so tight
And the music's playing loud

She gets rock 'n' roll and a rock 'n' roll station
And a rock 'n' roll dream
She's making movies on location
She don't know what it means

But the music make her wanna be the story
And the story was whatever was the song, what it was
Roller girl, don't worry
D.J. play the movies
All night long, all night long

Slippin' and a-slidin'
Yeah, life's a rollerball
Slippin' and a-slidin'
Skateaway, that's all

Skateaway
Sha-la sha-lay, hey, hey
Skateaway
Now, sha-la sha-lay, hey, hey
She's singing sha-la sha-lay, hey, hey
Skateaway

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