We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
AL STEWARTWhoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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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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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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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 reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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You gave him a license to steal.
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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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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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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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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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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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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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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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