On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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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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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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across 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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The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
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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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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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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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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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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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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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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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Don’t bother asking for explanations, she’ll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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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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