Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler & James Taylor
Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler & Van Morrison
Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler
This song is told from the point of view of an Indy car racing driver, and in its most basic sense is simply a chronicle of his season, listing off his results at each track—all of which are actual tracks that Indy cars have raced at. But he takes some poetic license; some of the races are out of or...
[Verse 1]
After 2000 came 2001
To be the new champions, we were there for to run
From springtime in Arizona, till the fall in Monterey
And the raceways were the battlefields and we fought 'em all the way
Was at Phoenix in the morning, I had a wake-up call
She went around without a warning, put me in the wall
I drove at Long Beach, California with three cracked vertebrae
And we went on to Indianapolis, Indiana in May
[Verse 2]
Well, the Brickyard's there to crucify anyone who will not learn
I climbed the mountain to qualify, went flat through the turns
But I was down in the might-have-beens and an old pal good as died
And I sat down in Gasoline Alley and I cried
(Ahh, hmm)
(Ahh, ah)
[Verse 3]
Well we were in at the kill again on the Milwaukee Mile
And in June up in Michigan we were robbed at Belle Isle
Then it was on to Portland, Oregon for the G. I. Joe
And I'd blown off almost everyone when my motor let go
New England, Ontario we died in the dirt
Those walls from mid-Ohio to Toronto, they hurt
So we came to Road America where we burned up at the lake
But at the speedway at Nazareth I made no mistake
Speedway at Nazareth was written by Mark Knopfler.
Speedway at Nazareth was produced by Chuck Ainlay & Mark Knopfler.
Mark Knopfler released Speedway at Nazareth on Tue Sep 26 2000.
In an interview with JAM!: