Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go.
AL STEWART
most 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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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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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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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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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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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
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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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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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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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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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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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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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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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Don’t bother asking for explanations, she’ll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
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