Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
AL STEWARTDo you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave 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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She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
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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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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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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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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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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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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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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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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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