[00:00.000] 作词 : Mark Knopfler[00:00.971] 作曲 : Mark Knopfler[00:01.943]Mark Knopfler[00:32.278]Drinking dens are spilling out[00:33.984]There's staggering in the square[00:36.168]There's lads and lasses falling about[00:37.969]And a crackling in the air[00:40.485]Down around the dungeon doors[00:41.874]The shelters in the queues[00:44.427]Everybody's looking for[00:45.744]Somebody's arms to fall into[00:47.897]And it's what it is[00:51.544]It's what it is now[00:55.481]There's frost on the graves and the monuments[00:57.544]But the taverns are warm in town[01:00.114]People curse the government[01:01.709]And shovel hot food down[01:03.810]The lights are out in city hall[01:05.427]The castle and the keep[01:07.650]The moon shines down upon it all[01:09.482]The legless and asleep[01:12.01]And it ′s cold on a tollgate[01:13.361]With the wagons creeping through[01:15.886]Cold on a tollgate[01:17.249]God knows what I could do with you[01:19.220]And It ′s what it is[01:22.773]It ′s what it is now[01:27.238]The garrison sleeps and the citadel[01:28.993]With the ghosts and the ancient stones[01:31.614]High up on the parapet[01:32.980]A Scottish piper stands alone[01:35.562]And high on the wind[01:36.671]The highland drums begin to roll[01:39.426]And something from the past just comes[01:40.887]And stares into my soul[01:42.104]And it ′s cold on a tollgate[01:44.870]Where the Caledonian blues[01:47.378]Cold on a tollgate[01:48.811]God knows what I could do with you[01:50.938]And It ′s what it is[01:53.743]It ′s what it is now[01:58.439]What it is[02:02.337]It ′s what it is now[02:38.18]There ′s a chink of light[02:39.188]There ′s a burning wick[02:39.206]There ′s a lantern in the tower[02:41.999]Wee Willie Winkie with a candlestick[02:43.836]Still writing songs in the wee wee hours[02:45.731]On Charlotte Street I take[02:47.523]A walking stick from my hotel[02:50.510]The ghost of Dirty ****[02:51.772]Is still in search of Little Nell[02:53.366]And it ′s what it is[02:57.420]It ′s what it is now[02:59.108]Oh it ′s what it is[03:05.344]What it is now