Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
AL STEWARTDo you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go.
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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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So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
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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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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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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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You gave him a license to steal.
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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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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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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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The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
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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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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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