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Mark Knopfler – All The Roadrunning lyrics
A million miles our vagabond wheels
Clocked up beneath the clouds
They're counting down to show time
When we do it for real with the crowds
Air miles are owing but they don't come for free
And they don't give you any for pain
But if it's all for nothing
All the road running has been in vain

The rim shots come down like cannon fire
And thunder off the wall
There's a man in every corner
And each one is giving his all
But this is my piper, this is my drum
So you never will hear me complain
And if it's all for nothing
All the road running has been in vain

All the road running
All the road running

Well if you're inclined to go up on the wall
It can only be fast and high
And those who don't like the danger soon
Find something different to try
And when there is only a ring in your ears
And an echo down memory lane
Then if it's all for nothing
All the road running has been in vain

All the road running
All the road running

The show's packing up, I sit and I watch
The carnival leaving town
There's no pretending that I'm not a fool
For riding around and around
Like the pictures you keep of your old wall of death
You showed me one time on the plane
But if it's all for nothing
All the road running, it's been in vain

I've a million miles of vagabond sky
Clocked up above the clouds
And I'm still your man for the roaming
For as long as there's roaming allowed

There'll be a rider and there'll be a wall
As long as the dream remains
And if it's all for nothing
All the road running it's been in vain

All the road running
All the road running
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    Two guys meet on a plane. One is Mark Knopfler flying between gigs, the other is the dare devil bike rider from the Wall of Death. There are similarities in how they live. They both prepare for their gigs before doing it "for real". In both cases there's some sort of fanfare. In both cases it's a thrill and if you don't like it you quit. If you carry on, you clock up a lot of footwork and a lot of airmiles. The lyrics on this site have it a bit wrong: it's heels, not wheels in verse 1.
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    Clear ambiguity.
    The Poetics, by Aristotle.
    The intention of poetry, literature and all creative arts is to give a clear, distinct, direct work, which is subject to multiple interpretations.
    The interpretations result from the individual’s perceptions or experiences.
    Thus, it is clear to the perceiving individual, but ambiguous or unclear another’s perceptions or experiences.
    There is no meaning; one gives meaning based one’s perceptions, experiences.
    dennis hanna
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    It's "wheels" for sure, not "heels" despite what that guy in 2015 said. For goodness' sake, you can HEAR him sing "wheels" and yet all the lyric sites seem to have it wrong except this one. This song is a lyrical triumph of music and words, and the meanings are clear if one just listens!
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    Lyrics seem to tell the story about dare devil motor bike riders who are part of a well known Ringling Brothers Circus act. The act involves Dare devil motor bike riders who ride their bikes round and round high on the wall within a large steel sphere cage. That's how I understand the story of the lyrics.
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