DIRE STRAITS - EXPRESSO LOVE

EXPRESSO LOVE

DIRE STRAITS

SONGWRITER: MARK KNOPFLER

COUNTRY: U.K.

WHERE: LIVE AT WERCHTER 1981

ALBUM: MAKING MOVIES

LABEL: VERTIGO RECORDS

GENRE: ROOTS ROCK

YEAR: 1980

Making Movies é o terceiro álbum de estúdio da extinta banda de rock inglesa Dire Straits, lançado em 1980.

"Expresso Love" is a song written by Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler for their third álbum Making Movies. It is one of their heavier songs, with a distorted guitar playing the main riff, which was recycled from the unreleased track "Making Movies". It also has a keyboard melody played throughout the piece, with the melody altering slightly at points. It is basically a love song. Expresso Love also contains a reference to the earlier Dire Straits song "Wild West End" from their eponymous album, with the line "Hey mister, you wanna take a walk in the wild west end sometime?"

It was one of the four songs from the Making Movies album to be performed throughout the Love over Gold and Brothers in Arms tours, with a particularly notable version on the live album Alchemy, but the song was dropped from the lineup afterwards.

In 1984, the live version from Alchemy was released as a single backed with the Alchemy edition of "Two Young Lovers", and the song was later re-released in CD format as one of the B-sides to the single "The Bug".

She gets the sun in the daytime

Perfume in the dusk

And she comes out in the night time

With the honeysuckle musk

Because she smells just like a rose

And she tastes just like a peach

She got me walking where the wildlife goes

I'd do anything to reach her

And she was made in heaven

Heaven's in the world

Is this just expresso love

You know I'm crazy for the girl

She call me just to talk

She's my lover, she's a friend of mine

She says hey mister you wanna take a walk

In the wild west end sometime

And I get trouble with my breathing

She says boys don't know anything

But I know what I want

I want everything

Well I feel so good cos I feel so good

And I feel so good cos it feels so right

I was made to go with my girl

Like a saxophone was made to go with the night

And she can raise one eyebrow

Put her hand on my hip

And I close one eye now

Sweat on her tip

And I surrender to the fever

She love me so tender I got to believe her

Love? Express love's alright

I don't want no sugar in it

Thank you very much

All wired up on it all fired up on it

Express touch

Hey maestro expresso

It's just another one just like the other one

Hey maestro express

Is this another one just like the other one.