[00:00.00] 作曲 : Mark Knopfler [00:00.647] 作词 : 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 lantern in the tower [02:39.206]There ′s a burning wick [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 Dick [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