On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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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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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She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
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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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You gave him a license to steal.
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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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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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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
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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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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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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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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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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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