David Knopfler - Arcadie lyrics

Well there's no going this way There's no going that The cul-de-sac one way warned you Babe With a freight train there's no turning back You wake to the serial nightmare Your body's a heartbreakin' sight A face forlorn in my windscreen In the moonlight - so blue - so bright Arcadie... is this a portrait of you? Arcadie... you know I do You know I do Some hearts seem senselessly haunted Others so calmly defined In slo'-mo' I'm watching you movin' beside him What could you not leave behind? Who poisoned your dreams of a future? Who hurt you then left you afraid? Who blew away all your tomorrows like candles Snuffed in The No Hope Arcade? Some hearts are brutally blind Arcadie Others are achingly kind Arcadie, Is this the portrait of you? Arcadie... You know I do You know I do But a smile, brings no note of redemption The lover creeps home to the wife Burnt out, a silhouette car wreck Hot wired on the highway of life A cold shouldered ghost of innocence lost Disbelief stares back at you A long-legged looker, hooking for love In headlamps so deadly and true Arcadie... is this the portrait of you? Arcadie - you know I do You know I do Napalmed with mini bar comforts They got shipwrecking fem - fem eyes Capsizing sighs - abandoned - drowning Safe in the warmth of his lies Sweet lies - sweet smoky lies No there's going this way No going that Her naked reflection going down on you As the white screen fades to black Oh Arcadie - I've painted this portrait for you Indigo blue