Dire Straits - Skateaway (Official Music Video)

The Official Music Video for Skateaway. Taken from Dire Straits – Making Movies.

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Lyrics:

i seen a girl on a one way corridor
stealing down a wrong way street
for all the world like an urban toreador
she had wheels on on her feet
well the cars do the usual dances
same old cruise and the kerbside crawl
but the rollergirl she’s taking chances
they just love to see her take them all

no fears alone at night she’s sailing through the crowd
in her ears the phones are tight and the music’s playing loud

hallelujah here she comes queen rollerball
enchante what can i say don’t care at all
you know she used to have to wait around
she used to be the lonely one
but now that she can skate around town
she’s the only one

no fears alone at night she’s sailing through the crowd
in her ears the phones are tight and the music’s playing loud

she gets rock n roll a rock n roll station
and a rock n roll dream
she’s making movies on location
she don’t know what it means
but the music make her wanna be the story
and the story was whatever was the song what it was
rollergirl don’t worry
d.j. play the movies all night long

she tortures taxi drivers just for fun
she like to read their lips
says toro toro taxi see ya tomorrow my son
i swear she let a big truck graze her hip
she got her own world in the city
you can’t intrude on her
she got her own world in the city
cos the city’s been so rude to her

come slippin and a slidin
life’s rollerball
slippin and a slidin
skateaway that’s all
shala shalay hey hey skateaway
she’s singing shala shalay hey hey
skateaway

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[michaelcollins]

Still listening to the Straits, April 12th, 2024... and beyond !!

[SFISH]

Christ that Knopfler can play. Won't be another like him.

[MrFranco]

Favourite Dire Straits song.
Very underrated.

[mr.christopher]

Quite possibly one of the most perfect songs ever made.

[ottomellar]

Thirteen years ago today, on 31 January 2008, we lost Jayzik (Jay) Azikiwe, the Roller Girl, 1958-2008.
We honour her life, and how wonderful her performance was for this video, one of the greatest of all time.

[w.k.]

This video, FWIW, is timeless with its minimalist set design (including the lovely Roller Girl). Just love the fade-out of the band playing in the faded sunset.

[killbill]

The most underrated Dire Straits song I know

[nottoday.]

Radio has outlasted video, and roller skates have outlasted
🛼🛼🛼

[full]

R.I.P Roller Girl Jayzik Azikiwe (1958 - 2008)
R.I.P Music Video Director Lester Bookbinder (1929 - 2017)

[manlymanhunger]

the 80's. there will never be such a decade with so much talent, imagination, and just good music and videos. WOW!!!

[CBTnVVT]

Who still loves this song that they first enjoyed from watching the video in the early days of MTV?

[jamesgray]

It's fall 1980 living in the dorms in my sophomore year in college. Some guy stuck his speaker out of his window and played this on vinyl. I'll never forget that feeling of appreciating that song so much.

[sidDkid]

*_"hallelujah, here she comes"_* 🎶

[charlie-obrien]

"Skateaway" is a perfectly composed song, the lyrics and especially Knopfler's singing guitar work capture the feeling of youthful joy and movement. The fact that he makes it about a "Roller girl" instead of just any skater also makes it meaningful because young ladies of that generation were really coming into their own and this song celebrates them and their new found freedoms.
I was 21 when this song and video came out and I admit I cried real tears when I learned that Jayzik (Jay) Azikiwe, the Rollergirl had passed away. But her beautiful performance will live on and inspire young girls for as long as they have dreams and the "Skateaway" video to enjoy.

[barbrabass]

Making Movies....best album. Every song perfection. Mark Knopfler is a true genius!

[badelson]

This gave me hope when I was a depressed lonely junior in high school. I'm a nurse married to a neurosurgeon. I'm now 56 and he is 60, but this song encourages us and uplifts our spirits during Co vid 19.
Thank you Mark!!

[mikkouhtakari]

40 year-old music but still sounds fresh

[kenfrederick]

I remember this video from the earliest days of MTV.

[hawkman]

I was 15, this music made me dream, dance, hope, live....the best days, a whole life in front...

[williamkelly]

He's the most fluid guitar player I have ever heard. It just flows and it's so beautiful. Thanks, Scotland!!!!