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?
AL STEWARTSomeone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don’t you have a word to say?
AL STEWARTYou gave him a license to steal.
AL STEWARTDo you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go.
AL STEWARTYou reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
AL STEWARTJimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
AL STEWARTOf 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.
AL STEWARTDon’t bother asking for explanations, she’ll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
AL STEWARTLook to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
AL STEWARTCountry & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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 STEWARTOnly two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
AL STEWARTYou 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.
AL STEWARTWe measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
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 STEWARTNothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
AL STEWART