What It Is Lyrics - Sailing To Philadelphia - Mark Knopfler

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 

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 

Lights are out in the city hall 

The castle and the keep 

The moon shines down upon it all 

The legless and the sleepless 

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Cold on the tollgate 

With the wagons creeping through 

Cold on the tollgate 

God knows what I could do with you 

It's what it is 

It's what it is now 

The Garison sleeps in the citadel 

With the ghost and the ancient stones 

High on the parapet 

A Scottish piper stands alone 

High on the wind 

The highland drums begin to roll 

And something from the past just comes 

And stares into my soul 

Cold on the tollgate 

With the Caledonian Blues 

Cold on the tollgate 

God knows what I could do with you 

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It's what it is 

It's what it is now 

What it is 

It's what it is now 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 

It's what it is 

It's what it is now 

Oh what it is 

What it is now now now