Dire Straits - Love Over Gold [Lyrics in description]

Love Over Gold

You walk out on the high wire
you're a dance on thin ice
you pay no heed to the danger
and less to advice
your footsteps are forbidden
but with a knowledge of your sin
you throw your love to all the strangers
and caution to the wind

And you go dancing through doorways
just to see what you will find
leaving nothing to interfere
with the crazy balance of your mind
and when you finally reappear
at the place where you came in
you've thrown your love to all the strangers
and caution to the wind

It takes love over gold
and mind over matter
to do what you do that you must
when the things that you hold
can fall and be shattered
or run through your fingers like dust

[Balloonwala-dsmb]

Mark, when I listen to the lyrics in this song, I get to see my own life, as if you lead my life much before me. That's a vision. "Blowing caution to the wind" that is exactly me in person, till now, at the verge of old age.

[bleish.]

Hands down their finest work....it is so deep and touching...always brings tears to my eyes.

[thibaultory-lavollee]

hands down one of the best songs ever written

[michaelbaucom]

Another masterpiece from a masterpiece album, a much needed break stylistically from the other tracks, ( mostly acoustic, not the hard/heavy rock on other tracks), still Dire Straits though, great guitar and story telling, beautifully done.

[alokmtu]

I got this "tape" on my 8th birthday while in India quite randomly by someone who thought I need to listen to "english music". How lucky was I? Love this album to this day and listen to it in the original sequence 😂 My brain is hard wired

[aefa]

Blissfully delicious. Love, love, love it! :)

[tomthompson]

like many people, one of my first ever cds, , how did they fit all that sound on a beer coaster.

[rolfwinzer]

Their best album, netter than Brothers in Arms...

[papantlaflyer]

WOW, THIS SONG is like a brief description of my late wife, ADY, behavior towards people, actually, it got her into many a misunderstanding with men, making them think her kind conversation and open mind to ALL IDEAS was some kind of a flirting invitation, this made her unhappy sometimes, but that NEVER made her change her ways, it only reinforced her faith in herself and her god... she shared every good feeling she got inside to everyone, and she is a heroine for me because of that, i wish there could be more human beings like her in this world, it would be a much better place to live in...it is a shame she had to live to watch our two kids dying out of leukemia, they died while we saw their lives"running throgh our fingers like dust"... so unfair for somebody like her, she should have lived to see her grand sons going to college and raise their children, but it all ended going nowhere... miss you babe...

[drlaligamnatarajanmohan]

There is just no end that one can come to Listening to all these Songs but the Only problem is is that the BOSE Corp guys just don’t have any kind of Sensitivity towards the Nuances of Real Good Music especially in the End just Tarnishing the Name of BOSE who I am sure will definitely be regretting/repenting of their Employment especially the so-called BOSE Sound Engineers!

[therungofthemooring]

Bless you all, best wishes devotees, Satan 666.