Dire Straits Lyrics

    ------ About the song Telegraph Road performed by Dire Straits

I've listened to Rock for more than 20 years. Dire Straits stands top of the few best rock bands I knew, they have so many good songs like Telegraph Road, Tunnel of love, Sultans of Swing, Where do you think you're going, ...
I've listened to their songs hundreds time without being tired!

    ------ About the song Your Latest Trick performed by Dire Straits

I think the song is about someone ("I figure") who is swept of his feet and has been heartbroken bij someone ("you figure") in an instant, and is now wondering how this could happen

    ------ About the song Money For Nothing performed by Dire Straits

You guys are digging too deep into this. First, it's not Knopfler's opinion, just a quotation from a REAL guy working in a store, and the song sung by a fictional guy working in a store and lamenting, jelaous of "those assholes that get money without doing any real work". Ironic that nobody pointed out that KNOPFLER is a musician who earns MONEY FOR NOTHING much (playing guitar on MTV).

Also:

"Noun
faggot (plural faggots)

(rare, dated in US) A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
(chiefly UK) A bundle of sticks tied together.  [quotations ▼]
1853, Sir Francis Bond Head, A faggot of French sticks: or, Paris in 1851, page 2:
In the depth of, winter, however, a faggot of real French Sticks — although of little intrinsic value — may possibly enliven for a few moments an English Fireside.
(obsolete) Burdensome baggage.
(obsolete, pejorative) An old woman.
(Ireland, colloquial, pejorative, obsolete) A woman.  [quotations ▼]
1796, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Autobiography:
she wants me to go to bed to her, and I won't, ... for she is as crooked as a ram's horn ... and as ugly as sin besides ; rot her, the dirty little faggot, she torments me.
1834, William Carleton, The Midnight Mass:
The woman, in accordance with the custom of the country, raised the Irish cry, in a loud melancholy wail ...
Darby, who prided himself on maintaining silence, could not preserve the consistency of his character upon this occasion ... "Your sowl to the divil, you faggot!" he exclaimed, "what do you mane? The divil whip the tongue out o' you! ..."
1973, Hugh Leonard, Da:
MOTHER: To see who?
DA: You faggot, you; don't let on you don't know.
(derogatory, vulgar, colloquial, US, Canada, Australian) A male homosexual.  [quotations ▼]
2004, Dennis Cooper, The Sluts, page 228
We're a hot looking crew that's your average faggot's wet dream, so we pull some pretty max tricks.
------> (pejorative, vulgar, US, colloquial) An annoying or inconsiderate person.
(UK, Australian, Ireland) (obsolete in North America) The cast off end of a smoked cigarette.
(chiefly UK) A meatball made from pork. "

So, let's put it into perspective.

If 'faggot' here means gay, then the fictional worker INSULTS KNOPFLER (and all other musicians) that he's gay. In a song written and sung by the guy, no less.

And if he means 'jerk', it's again just relaying the words and thoughts of a man who is jelaous of HIM. In other words, a song about someone considering performing music is an easy way to get rich and famous. And he hates him for it, because he's not rich, or famous, and he's putting in loads more effort.

Above all, it's just a song. And I won't even get into things like "chicks for free", and rap music in which women are considered objects, but the only fuss is raised when people relay death threats and gay insults through music... Grow a pair, folks.

    ------ About the song Telegraph Road performed by Dire Straits

You'd never have thought that such a young girl like me would say this, but Dire Straits is one of the best bands in the world...I always go to sleep with DS..especially Brothers in Arms and Telegraph Road are awesome..every night they take me to another world!

I thank you Dire Straits for being the best pure instrumental band i've ever heard, for giving me this kind of music in a bussy bloody useless world...

Peace from Holland,
T

    ------ About the song Brothers In Arms performed by Dire Straits

Mark has said in an interview that the song is about the Falklands War - including the absurdity thereof, since both sides were actually @brothers@. The Music video also is pencil sketched war-clips of the Falklands War

    ------ About the song Money For Nothing performed by Dire Straits

The reason there are brackets there is because the radio edit didn't have that verse in it,that's why they're there,so people who haven't heard the full version would understand that. The guy who took time to write this was just being considerate,let's not waste our lives on the internet yeah

    ------ About the song Your Latest Trick performed by Dire Straits

Its about lost love in Knoflers kind a way,realism,etc. Also he mentions life after her.

Talking about falling in love with a woman,who was not so smart,but she made him sad as he said I PLAYED THE BLUES IN 12 BAR DOWN.

    ------ About the song Money For Nothing performed by Dire Straits

I am pretty sure the song is written from the perspective of someone upset about how musicians make money without doing any "real" work. So one guy from a hardware store is talking about the faggots on tv who are making a metric fuckton of money. I.e. the people.writing and performing the songs. Some of them were, infact, gay.

    ------ About the song Brothers In Arms performed by Dire Straits

the song brothers in arms reminds me of my firm went we walked in to chealseas stamford bridge football stadium and my cousins michael was killed (i was 7) he was a truemendus loss to me and my family and to the rest of the firm R.I.P Michael Ashley Bartlett

    ------ About the song Money For Nothing performed by Dire Straits

Think of that verse - the little faggot with the earring in the makeup, yeah buddy, that's his own hair ... the little faggot got his own jet airplane, the little faggot is a millionaire ... meaning that someone who is derisively dismissed as only some kind of FAGGOT is doing pretty well for himself, so who has the last laugh now (to quote another REALLY OLD song) ... it is not a slur against gays, but againsts morons who go around calling people FAGGOTS or whatever slur.