naquele ano de setenta e oito, em pleno apogeu da new-wave e da pop pós-punk, creio que ninguém estava à espera deste som - e daquela guitarra tão coooool. 
nesse verão só se ouvia "sultans of swing", mas para mim a grande canção do disco de estreia dos dire straits (ainda hoje um clássico perfeito) foi sempre esta.

High and dry in the long hot day

Lost and lonely in every way

Got the flats all around me sky up above

Yes I need a little water of love

I've been too long lonely and my heart feels pain

Crying out for some soothing rain

I believe I have taken enough

Yes I need a little water of love

Water of love deep in the ground

But there ain’t no water here to be found

Some day baby when the river runs free

Is gonna carry that water of love to me

There's a bird up in a tree sitting real up high

Just waiting for me to die

If I don't get some water soon

I'll be dead and gone in the afternoon

Once I had a woman I could call of my own

Once I had a woman now my woman she’s gone

Once there was a river now there's a stone

You know it's evil when you're living alone

(dedicado à betânia, que ainda não era nascida)