And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
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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She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color 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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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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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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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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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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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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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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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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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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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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Don’t bother asking for explanations, she’ll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
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