Heavy Up

Album: Down the Road Wherever (2018)
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  • Your slack-jawed dimness is our loss
    Condemns us to your point of view
    Who could give a flying toss
    What you like to chill out to?
    And why should I lighten up for you
    If you can't heavy up for me?
    Why should I? Why should I?

    You grunt and root your patch of earth
    Adrift from shame and deaf to sound
    How much is your praise really worth?
    About the same as your thumbs down
    And why should I lighten up for you
    If you can't heavy up for me?
    Why should I? Why should I?

    So heavy up, heavy up for me
    Heavy up, heavy up for me
    You can give it up
    Give it up with me
    Or heavy up, heavy up for me

    What would it take
    To get you to, just to shut it?
    I'd so love it

    And why should I lighten up for you
    If you can't heavy up for me?
    Why should I? Why should I?

    So heavy up, heavy up for me
    Heavy up, heavy up for me
    You can give it up
    Give it up with me
    Or heavy up, heavy up for me

    You won't of course, you will be heard
    Ah, but at least a man can dream
    I'm afraid, alas, the turd
    Who thinks he's an ice cream
    And why should I lighten up for you
    If you can't heavy up for me?
    Why should I? Why should I?

    So heavy up, heavy up for me
    Heavy up, heavy up for me
    You can give it up
    Give it up with me
    Or heavy up, heavy up for me

    Yeah, heavy up, heavy up for me
    Heavy up, heavy up for me
    You can give it up
    Give it up with me
    Or heavy up, heavy up for me

    Heavy up, heavy up for me
    Heavy up, heavy up for me
    Heavy up, heavy up for me
    Heavy up, heavy up for me
    Heavy up, heavy up for me
    Heavy up, heavy up for me
    Heavy up, heavy up for me
    Heavy up, heavy up for me
    Heavy up, heavy up for me
    Heavy up, heavy up for me
    Heavy up, heavy up for me
    Heavy up, heavy up for me Writer/s: Mark Knopfler
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