Lyrics to
Six Blade Knife

This version of Six Blade Knife was released by Dire Straits in 1978.

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Your six blade knife can do anything for you
Anything you want it to
One blade for breaking my heart
One blade for tearing me apart
Your six blade knife-do anything for you

You can take away my mind like you take away the top of a tin
When you come up from behind and lay it down cold on my skin
Took a stone from my soul when I was lame
Just so you could make me tame
You take away my mind like you take away the top of a tin

I’d like to be free of it now – I don’t want it no more
I’d like to be free of it now – you know I don’t want it no more

Everybody got a knife it can be just what they want it to be
A needle a wife or something that you just can’t see

You know it keeps you strong
Yes and it’ll do me wrong
Your six blade knife – do anything for you

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About Lyrics and Six Blade Knife by Dire Straits

The lyrics for Six Blade Knife are defined as the words making up the song released by Dire Straits in 1978. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Six Blade Knife have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Dire Straits and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Six Blade Knife by Dire Straits if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Six Blade Knife" means the words set to the music of Six Blade Knife, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Dire Straits. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Six Blade Knife and the lyrics to Six Blade Knife are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Dire Straits who came here looking just for the lyrics to Six Blade Knife, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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