And 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 STEWARTWe measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
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The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
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You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain.
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Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go.
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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
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You gave him a license to steal.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
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