The Way It Always Starts Lyrics - Mark Knopfler

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 

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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? 

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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