She 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.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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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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Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
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You gave him a license to steal.
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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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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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And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
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She 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.
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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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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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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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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it’s a tribal thing.
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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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