MARK KNOPFLER & EMMYLOU HARRIS - IF THIS IS GOODBYE

IF THIS IS GOODBYE

MARK KNOPFLER & EMMYLOU HARRIS

SONGWRITER: MARK KNOPFLER

COUNTRY: U. K./U.S.A.

ALBUM: ALL THE ROADRUNNING

LABEL: WARNER RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 2006

 

          Mark Freuder Knopfler (/ˈnɒflər/NOF-lər; born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Born in Scotland and raised in England, he was the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits. He pursued a solo career after the band first dissolved in 1988. Dire Straits reunited in 1990, but dissolved again in 1995. He is now an independent solo artist.

     Knopfler was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and raised in Blyth, near Newcastle in England, from the age of seven. After graduating from the University of Leeds and working for three years as a college lecturer, Knopfler co-founded Dire Straits with his younger brother, David Knopfler. The band recorded six albums, including Brothers in Arms(1985), one of the best-selling albums in history. After they disbanded in 1995, Knopfler began a solo career, and has produced nine solo albums. He has composed and produced film scores for nine films, including Local Hero(1983), Cal(1984), The Princess Bride(1987), Wag the Dog(1997) and Altamira(2016). He has produced albums for Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, and Randy Newman.

       Described by Classic Rock as a virtuoso, Knopfler is a fingerstyle guitarist and was ranked 27th on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". As of 2009, he and Dire Straits had sold more than 120 million records. A four-time Grammy Award winner, Knopfler is the recipient of the Edison Award, the Steiger Award and the Ivor Novello Award, as well as holding three honorary doctorate degrees in music from universities in the United Kingdom. Knopfler was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Dire Straits in 2018.

          Emmylou Harris(born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She has released dozens of albums and singles over the course of her career and has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2018, she was presented the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

       Harris' work and recordings include work as a solo artist, a bandleader, an interpreter of other composers' works, a singer-songwriter, and a backing vocalist and duet partner. She has worked with numerous artists.

         All the Roadrunning is a collaboration between British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler and American singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris, released on 24 April 2006 by Mercury Records and Universal Music internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The album received favorable reviews, and reached the number one position on album charts in Denmark, Norway, and Switzerland. The album peaked at number eight in the United Kingdom, and number 17 on the Billboard 200 in the United States. The title track, which actually was released the year before as a new track on the compilation album Private Investigations, was released as a single and reached number 8 in the UK.

       "This Is Us" was released as the first single, followed by "Beachcombing". The album was the result of a longtime collaboration between the two artists. Over the course of seven years, the songs were recorded by the pair with minimal information released about the project. A follow-up live album, Real Live Roadrunning, was released following All the Roadrunning Tour.

My famous last words

Are laying around in tatters

Sounding absurd

Whatever I try

But Ilove you

And that's all what really matters

If this is goodbye

If this is goodbye

 

Your bright shining sun

Would light up the way before me

You were the one

Made me feel I could fly

And I love you

Whatever is waiting for me

If this is goodbye

If this is goodbye

 

Who knows how long we've got

Or what we're made of

Who knows if there's plan or not

There is our love

I know there is our love

 

My famous last words

Could never tell the story

Spinning unheard

In the dark of the sky

But I ove you

And this is our glory

If this is goodbye

If this is goodbye

If this is goodbye

If this is goodbye.