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.
AL STEWARTShe 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.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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You gave him a license to steal.
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Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
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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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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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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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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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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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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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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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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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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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