Your six blade knife can do anything for you
Anything you want it to
One blade for breaking my heart
One blade for tearing me apart
Your six blade knife-do anything for you
You can take away my mind like you take away the top of a tin
When you come up from behind and lay it down cold on my skin
Took a stone from my soul when I was lame
Just so you could make me tame
You take away my mind like you take away the top of a tin
I’d like to be free of it now — I don’t want it no more
I’d like to be free of it now — you know I don’t want it no more
Everybody got a knife it can be just what they want it to be
A needle a wife or something that you just can’t see
Your six blade knife you know it keeps you strong
Yes and it’ll do me wrong
Your six blade knife — do anything for you
Do anything
The six blade knife is his guitar. It tears him apart, opens his mind like a can, keeps him in "dire straits," but he'd still do anything for it. Any struggling musician can surely relate
Your six blade knife can do anything for you
Anything you want it to
One blade for breaking my heart
One blade for tearing me apart
Your six blade knife-do anything for you
You can take away my mind like you take away the top of a tin
When you come up from behind and lay it down cold on my skin
Took a stone from my soul when I was lame
Just so you could make me tame. You take away my mind like you take away the top of a tin
I'd like to be free of it now, I don't want it no more
I'd like to be free of it now, you know I don't want it no more
Everybody got a knife it can be just what they want it to be
A needle a wife or something that you just can't see
You know it keeps you strong
Yes and it'll do me wrong
Your six blade knife, do anything for you.
"Stole from my soul, when I was lame..." MK can come up with some lyrics that could keep a creative writing class busy for a whole semester! Hey Professor! A college class in "Creative Writing: Dire Straits" I'd sign up!
I remember the first time I played this song for my little brother David, he loved it. He loved the way Mark Knopfler was plucking that guitar. Every time I hear this it reminds me of my little bro, lost him 4 years ago. R.I. P. David