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.
AL STEWARTLouis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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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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You gave him a license to steal.
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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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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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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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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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The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
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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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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
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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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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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