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The drinking dens are spilling out There's staggering in the square There's lads and lasses falling about And a crackling in the air Down around the dungeon doors The shelters and the queues Everybody's looking for Somebody's arms to fall into And it's what it is It's what it is now There's frost on the graves and the monuments But the taverns are warm in town People curse the government And shovel hot food down The lights are out in the city hall The castle and the keep The moon shines down upon it all The legless and asleep And it's cold on the tollgate With the wagons creeping through Cold on the tollgate God knows what I could do with you And it's what it is It's what it is now The garrison sleeps in the citadel With the ghosts and the ancient stones High up on the parapet A Scottish piper stands alone And high on the wind The highland drums begin to roll And something from the past just comes And stares into my soul And it's cold on the tollgate With the Caledonian Blues Cold on the tollgate God knows what I could do with you And it's what it is It's what it is now What it is It's what it is now There's a chink of light, there's a burning wick There's a lantern in the tower Wee Willie Winkie with a candlestick Still writing songs in the wee wee hours On Charlotte Street I take A walking stick from my hotel The ghost of Dirty Dick Is still in search of Little Nell And it's what it is It's what it is now Oh what it is What it is now


Mark Knopfler


#history #scotland #storytelling #what-it-is #food

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.


Clarence Thomas


#belief #codes #does #god #government

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.


Vivienne Westwood


#always #because #businessmen #buying #clothes

The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.


Kit Williams


#dog #goals #material #rabbit #telling

Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.


Trisha Yearwood


#behind #counter #feel #ingredients #kitchen

When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.


Trisha Yearwood


#cooking #else #great #known #like

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.


William Butler Yeats


#heart #hid #love #pity #telling

The desire to know the future gnaws at our bones. That is where it started, and might have ended, years ago. I had cast the stones, seeing their faces flicker and fall: Death, Love, Murder, Treachery, Hope. We are a treacherous people - half of our stones show betrayal and violence and death from those close, death from those far away. It is not so with other peoples. I have seen other sets that show only natural disasters: death from sickness, from age, the pain of a broken heart, loss in childbirth. And those stones are more than half full with pleasure and joy and plain, solid warnings like "You reap what you sow" and "Victory is not the same as satisfaction." Of course, we live in a land taken by force, by battle and murder and invasion. It is not so surprising that our stones reflect our history.


Pamela Freeman


#fortune-telling #murder #runestones #age

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.


James Wolcott


#shut #shut up #sure #sure way #talking

I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.


Victoria Wood


#come #god #i #off #pill






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