David Knopfler - Southside Tenements Intro: London City has Southside Tenements Rusty cans, broken cars, cracked cement Someone blocked the drain, someone smashed a vent In a Southside, a Southside Tenement London City has Southside Tenements Flags are flying for some royal event There's people hanging out of the St. Paul's windows Lining up on the pavement and on the High Street And the City Road and from Crossfields And the Southside Tenement Well I get restive, and I got to leave I'm taking the shortcut home, past the arches, by the railway Where an old friend swears that maybe he could save me For a crazy boy, he's okay For a Southside, a Southside cavalcade Bridge: Hear the haunted, the haunted serenader He's just a memory, a-fading on The Broadway Fading from the Southside The Southside Tenement Instrumental: