Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
AL STEWARTAnd peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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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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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 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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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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And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
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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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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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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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She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go.
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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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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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