Mark Knopfler “Speedway at Nazareth“ 2001 Lyon

Click here for complete concert - *** Tony Garnier, Lyon, France 27th June 2001 *** After two thousand came two thousand and one To be the new champions we were there for to run From springtime in Arizona ’til the fall in Monterey And the raceways were the battlefields and we fought ’em all the way Was at Phoenix in the morning I had a wake-up call She went around without a warning put me in the wall I drove Long Beach, California with three cracked vertebrae And we went on to Indianapolis, Indiana in May Well the Brickyard’s there to crucify I went flat through the turns But I was down in the might-have-beens and an old pal good as died And I sat down in Gasoline Alley and I cried Well we were in at the kill again on the Milwaukee Mile And in June up in Michigan we were robbed at Belle Isle Then it was on the Portland, Oregon for the G.I. Joe And I’d bl