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.
AL STEWARTWe measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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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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So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
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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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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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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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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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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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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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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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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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