Floating Away Songtext
von Mark Knopfler

It′s the weight I'm trying to get inside the frame
I′ve been painting a fat man
He's big and fat and heavy as a man can be

But he's been floating away
Floating away
He′s been floating away from me


In the mirror my withering skin is a thorny pleasure
I stand unflinching and I mark each crease and sting
My brush, my wooden flail, my ancient thresher
As unforgiving time flays everything
It′s the truth I'm trying to get inside the frame
Now I′m painting myself naked
But I need a pair of boots about as heavy as boots can be

Or I'd be floating away
Floating away
I′d be floating away from me

And every thorn sends thistle down
Drifting all around
I'm floating away
Floating away
Floating away from me