Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
AL STEWARTYou 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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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
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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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The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
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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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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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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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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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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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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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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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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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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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