The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
AL STEWARTDo you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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Don’t bother asking for explanations, she’ll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me.
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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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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don’t you have a word to say?
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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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.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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