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.
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