Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
AL STEWARTSo you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
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You gave him a license to steal.
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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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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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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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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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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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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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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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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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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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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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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