Mark Knopfler - Before gas & tv

Album: Get Lucky

Personnel: Mark Knopfler (vocals, guitar); Richard Bennett (guitar); John McCusker (cittern, violin); Rupert Gregson-Williams (French horn); Guy Fletcher , Matt Rollings (keyboards); Glenn Worf (upright bass, electric bass); Danny Cummings (drums).

Recording information: British Grove Studios, London.

Lyric :

Before gas and tv
Before people had cars
We'd sit around the fires
Pass around our guitars

Remembering songs
When my daddy was home
He'd play along
On the spoons and a comb

We'd go with the flow
When the weather was fine
Sometimes we'd go
Collecting scrap iron

And we'd sit around the fires
Pass a bottle of wine
In the tales of the road
Since time out of mind

If heaven's like this
Well that's OK with me
Where the living is fine
And living is free

If heaven's like this
Well then here's where I'll be
On the edge of the field
On the edge of the world
Before gas and tv

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Get
• Lucky
• Mark
• Knopfler
• Before
• gas
• tv
• Best
• Rock

[maraniano]

God what music! Listen to all the background sounds! Delicious.

[bd80]

The last few seconds of that amazing song: an echo of Ride Across The River's end?

[7longtime7]

I love the fact that rupert gregson williams is playing in this.. :)

[Etterlinx]

@moghadasi1986 No, This only shows us that the chance of missing the like button is exactly

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[moghadasi1986]

There should be sth wrong with those 5 dislikes !!!!!! 

[Slokkis]

Words can't describe this song, love it love it LOVE IT :D

[raceforpride]

Clapton or Knopfler,,,,,,,You guys are waste'in time. YOU're compare'in apples to oranges. Both legends, "Thank God for they're talent".

[Kotaurin]

Love the song. Reminds me of simpler, happier times when we had nothin but our friends and it was more than enough to be happy.

And i love instrumental on the end because i always add some of my memories in few lines. (:

[tonykula]

ref comment clapton v mark although i agree with you hands down its not just about guitar its also about song writing so if you take that into acount mark still wins hands down hes a bloody genius and to be honest i dont wanna live in a world without marks music and similar talent in sure must be out there so have it lol

[goldie9301]

clapton can't keep up with knopfler. never could, never will, not the lyrics, not the melodies, not the stories, the man stands alone.

[direkogan]

This is one of his own kind heart touching song! take me to the other side of the world like i was born in Ireland not in Turkey.

Of course E.Clapton also given many nice songs to music world but Knopfler is with unique feeling, style and stories so more intellectual.

Before Gas and TV reminds us our roots our history all simple reality in our short life