Mark Knopfler Heart Full of Holes Lyrics

You can tell me your troubles I'll listen for free
My regulars trust me, t seems You can come and see Uncle
to get through the week
leave your pledges with me to redeem
Some folk sell their bodies for ten bob a go
Politicians go p___ing their souls
Which doesn't make me look too bad, don't you know
me, with my heart full of holes
All my yesterdays broken a watch with no face
all battered and old Bits of the movement
all over the place and a heart full of holes
A heart full of holes A heart full of holes

Brass knuckles and banjos are out on the town
at the knees-up in Teddy Boys' Row
The gold block and tackle tells the time upside down
Rock n' roll - well, I don't know
Dead people's wedding gifts walk out the door
A clarinet squeals to be free Accordions hop
from the shelves to the floor -
start playing their polkas to me

There's a ringing of bells a dunderhead's curse
Fingers are pointing at you And you take work in hell
and be glad it's not worse
and you get to the back of the queue
Handcuffs and hunting knives clang on the bars
Air pistols shoot out the lights
I've a whole Wailing Wall of electric guitars
could shatter the windows down Brick Lane tonight

If one of us dies, love I think I'll retire
see my boys and my beautiful girls A Garden of Eden
no gates or barbed wire
who knows, maybe gates made of pearls
Well, if we go to heaven and some say we don't
but if there's a reckoning day
please God, I'll see you and maybe I won't
I've a bag packed to go either way

Redeeming your pledge, dear I'll keep it for you
It's not going to go anywhere But your soul, your soul
that is not what I do There's not a lot I can do there
I remember the officer's watch in my hand:
'Repair it or die' I was told It's a wonder to me -
I still don't understand why I ever survived to be old
with a heart full of holes A heart full of holes
A heart full of holes