Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go.
AL STEWARTYou reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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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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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across 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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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 evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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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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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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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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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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You gave him a license to steal.
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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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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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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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