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Artist/Band: Mark Knopfler
Lyrics for Song: Madame Geneva's
Lyrics for Album: Kill to get Crimson [2007]



I'm a maker of ballads right pretty

I write them right here in the street

You can buy them all over the city

yours for a penny a sheet

I'm a word pecker out of the printers

out of the dens of gin lane

I'll write up a scene on a counter

- confessions and sins in the main, boys

confessions and sins in the main



Then you'll find me in Madame Geneva's

keeping the demons at bay

There's nothing like gin for drowning them in

but they'll always be back on a hanging day



They come rattling over the cobbles

they sit on their coffins of black

Some are struck dumb, some gabble

top-heavy on brandy or sack

The pews are all full of fine fellows

and the hawker has set up her shop

As they're turning them off at the gallows

she'll be selling right under the drop, boys

selling right under the drop



Then you'll find me in Madame Geneva's

keeping the demons at bay

There's nothing like gin for drowning them in

but they'll always be back on a hanging day


Album Lyrics: Kill to get Crimson [2007]


Mark Knopfler
"Kill to get Crimson [2007]"


1. Behind with the rent
2. Heart full of holes
3. In the sky
4. Let it all go
5. Madame Geneva's
6. Punish the Monkey
7. Scaffolder's wife
8. Secondary Waltz
9. The fish and the bird
10. The fizzy and the still
11. True love will never fade
12. We can get wild