The Way It Always Starts

Stealers Wheel, Gerry Rafferty, Mark Knopfler

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Gerry Rafferty

Gerald "Gerry" Rafferty (16 April 1947 – 4 January 2011) was a Scottish singer-songwriter best known for his solo hits "Baker Street" and "Right Down the Line", and with the band Stealers Wheel, "Stuck in the Middle with You". Rafferty was born into a working-class family in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. His mother taught him both Irish and Scottish folk songs as a boy; later, he was influenced by the music of The Beatles and Bob Dylan. He joined the folk-pop group The Humblebums in 1969. After they disbanded in 1971, he recorded his first solo album, Can I Have My Money Back? Rafferty and Joe Egan formed the group Stealers Wheel in 1972, producing several hits, most notably "Stuck in the Middle with You". In 1978, he recorded his second solo album, City t… more »


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2011
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It gets so dark before the dawn
That's when it gets to me
Before the city symphony of taxi horns 
That's the way it always starts,
Sitting here and waiting on the beating of my heart. 

Last night I thought I heard my name
Well it was too dark to see, but it had to be,
The voice was just the same 
That's the way it always starts,
Sitting here and waiting on the beating of my heart. 

So tell me why should it have to be this way
Why can't it be all right,
Why can't I sleep at night?
Why should it have to be this way?
Why must there be this price to pay? 

Now all the streets are dark and bare,
Oh, if you can live in this town,
And stick around, you can live anywhere 
That's the way it always starts,
Sitting here and waiting on the beating of my heart.

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Written by: MARK KNOPFLER

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