So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
AL STEWARTmost of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it’s a tribal thing.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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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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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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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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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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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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And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
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