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.
AL STEWARTThe literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
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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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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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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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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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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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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The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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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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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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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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