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.
AL STEWARTSo you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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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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Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
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You gave him a license to steal.
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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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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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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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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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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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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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The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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