Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
AL STEWARTSo you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
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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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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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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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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You gave him a license to steal.
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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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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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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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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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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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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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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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The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
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