Anna Tonight - David Knopfler

The world was made flesh — Anna was leaving

She belonged in songs I never wrote

The sub-text was real it was «Someone to Believe In»

When she waved from Saint Lucia, man I dived off the boat

Goes to her palace of words and inventions

Sows wild seeds from her rich inner life

She unlocks the vaults of her darkest reflections

Anna, my lover, my beautiful wife

I’m seeking redemption with Anna Tonight

I thought the song would be called Anna Leaving

But you said the song was called Anna Begins

I had the will and the rhyme and the reason

When we traded hearts I was king of the hill

But that’s alright I’ll call you Anna Tonight

Crossing the tao of past pleasure’s future

Here in the now of this soft silver light

Salt wet bodies, nature’s jungle hootchy kootchy

Sensual Anna in the moonlight bright

I remember Tobago in sweet conversation

She says words are her foreplay but where’s her delight?

Her brown eyes betray more than passion for poetry

As I watch myself watch over Anna, I might

Find my redemption with Anna tonight

And if I thought the song was called Anna Leaving

I soon found the song was called Anna Begins

You had the grace and the rhyme and the reason

When we traded hearts I was king of the hill

As colour recedes to a cool black on white

I’ll find my redemption with Anna Tonight

(c)David Knopfler June 2002