I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
AL STEWARTI know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
AL STEWARTWhoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
AL STEWARTYou gave him a license to steal.
AL STEWARTmost of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it’s a tribal thing.
AL STEWARTYou reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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 STEWARTThere’s room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
AL STEWARTThe evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
AL STEWARTOn a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
AL STEWARTLook to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
AL STEWARTAnd peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
AL STEWARTLooking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
AL STEWARTSo you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
AL STEWARTJimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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 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 STEWART