Dire Straits - Skateaway

seen a girl on a one way corridor stealing down a wrong way street for all the world like an urban toreador she had wheels on on her feet well the cars do the usual dances same old cruise and the kerbside crawl but the rollergirl she's taking chances they just love to see her take them all no fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd in her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud hallelujah here she comes queen rollerball enchante what can I say don't care at all you know she used to have to wait around she used to be the lonely one but now that she can skate around town she's the only one no fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd in her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud she gets rock n roll a rock n roll station and a rock n roll dream she's making movies on location she don't know what it means but the music make her wanna be the story and the story was whatever was the song what it was rollergirl don't worry d.j. play the movies all night long she tortures taxi drivers just for fun she like to read their lips says toro toro taxi see ya tomorrow my son I swear she let a big truck grease her hip she got her own world in the city you can't intrude on her she got her own world in the city cos the city's benn so rude to her no fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd in her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud she gets rock n roll a rock n roll station and a rock n roll dream she's making movies on location she don't know what it means but the music make her wanna be the story and the story was whatever was the song what it was rollergirl don't worry d.j. play the movies all night long come slippin and slidin life's roller ball slippin and a slidin skateaway that's all shala shalay hey hey skateaway she's going sining shala shalay hey hey skateaway