Don’t bother asking for explanations, she’ll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
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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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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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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The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
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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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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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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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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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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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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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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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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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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
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