I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
AL STEWARTI know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
AL STEWARTThe literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
AL STEWARTShe doesn’t give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.
AL STEWARTAnd all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.
AL STEWARTmost of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it’s a tribal thing.
AL STEWARTOn a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
AL STEWARTJimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
AL STEWARTOnly two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
AL STEWARTShe comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
AL STEWARTLook to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
AL STEWARTLooking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
AL STEWARTAnd peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
AL STEWARTWhoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
AL STEWARTWe measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
AL STEWARTYou reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
AL STEWARTThere’s room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
AL STEWART