Skateaway

Album: Making Movies (1980)
Charted: 58 37
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  • 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 curbside crawl
    But the roller girl 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 roller ball
    And Enchanté, 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, only one

    No fear 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, on a rock n roll station
    And a rock n roll dream
    She's making movies on location
    She don't know what it means
    And the music make her want to be the story
    And the story was whatever was the song what it was
    Roller girl, don't worry
    DJ, play the movies
    All night long (all night long)

    She tortures taxi drivers just for fun
    She likes to read their lips
    Says, "Toro toro taxi, see ya tomorrow, my son"
    I swear she let a big truck grease her hip
    She got her own world in the city
    You can't intrude on her, no-no, no-no
    She got her own world in the city
    The city's been so rude to her

    No fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd
    In her ears the phones so tight and the music's playing loud

    She gets rock n roll, and 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 want to be the story
    And the story was whatever was the song what it was
    Roller girl don't worry
    DJ play the movies
    All night long (all night long)

    Slipping and sliding
    Yeah, life's roller ball
    Slipping and a sliding
    Skate away, that's all

    Skate away
    Skate away
    She's going singing, "Shala shalay, hey hey"
    Skate away Writer/s: Mark Knopfler
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Brad Ottavi from Central West Coast FlWhen I first herd this song in the early 80s it just blew me away, and 40 years later it sounds as good as the first time I herd it
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