Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
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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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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You gave him a license to steal.
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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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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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She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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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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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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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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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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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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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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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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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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