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Mark Knopfler

Beachcombing

Release date: 2006

From All the Roadrunning
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"Beachcombing" is a track by Mark Knopfler, from the album All the Roadrunning , released 2006. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Mark Knopfler

Mark Knopfler

Lyrics

Beachcombing

[Verse 1: Mark Knopfler]

They say there's wreckage washing up

All along the coast

No one seems to know too much

Or who got hit the most

Nothing has been spoken

There's not a lot to see

But something has been broken

That's how it feels to me

[Verse 2: Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris, Mark Knopfler]

We had a harmony

I never meant to spoil

Now it's lying in the water

Like a slick of oil

The tide is running out to sea

Under a darkening sky

The night is falling down on me

And I'm thinking that I, should

[Chorus: Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris, Mark Knopfler, Emmylou Harris]

Head on home

Head on home

Been gone too long

Gone too long

Leave my roaming beachcombing

[Verse 3: Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris, Mark Knopfler]

Little wild kitten out hunting

To see what he can get

You're in a big city now

That won't stop growing yet

The sun is going down smokin'

A flaming testament

Something has been broken

And it feels permanent

[Verse 4: Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris, Mark Knopfler, Emmylou Harris]

A little seabird flying

He knows where he wants to go

Guess I better pack my stuff

And do the thing I know

I turn around and head on back

Along the old sea wall

I felt something give and crack

And now I'm sorry, that's all

[Chorus: Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris, Mark Knopfler, Emmylou Harris]

Head on home

Head on home

Been gone too long

Gone too long

Leave my roaming beachcombing

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From All the Roadrunning

2006
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All the Roadrunning
All the Roadrunning
Mark Knopfler
Release year
2006
  1. —All the Roadrunning
  2. —Belle Starr
  3. —Right Now
  4. —Beyond My Wildest Dreams
  5. —I Dug Up a Diamond
  6. —This Is Us
  7. —Beachcombing
  8. —If This Is Goodbye
  9. —Donkey Town
  10. —Rollin' On
  11. —Red Staggerwing
  12. —Love and Happiness

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Production & Engineering

Writer
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Producer
Chuck Ainlay, Mark Knopfler
Bass
Glenn Worf
Drums
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Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Richard Bennett
Keyboards
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