Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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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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She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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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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Don’t bother asking for explanations, she’ll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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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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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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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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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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There’s room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
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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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