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? AL STEWART AwayBackCountryLongLookSawSaySomeoneTellTimeWhyWord
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics. AL STEWART AttentionAudienceCentCountryInterestLyricPayPerRapRockWord
You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages. AL STEWART AllAloneHandPassageReachSadnessTime
So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. AL STEWART CanvasDownHighwayInsideKerouacOffPackRingSackSetUpWorld
Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult. AL STEWART CountryCultFolkheavyHistoricalKindMetalOffRickSomeWestern
And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run. AL STEWART DownHighway EternityLiveOutPeerReachRun
The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them. AL STEWART HalfLiteratePerformSemanticWellWish
I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it. AL STEWART AcrossBadBigComeKnowRareWorld
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 STEWART ComeContemplateCrimeCrowdDressRainRunSilkStrolSunWatercolor
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school. AL STEWART AlaskaConceptCoolFreshGreedLawLookOrderSchool
most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it’s a tribal thing. AL STEWART BeatElseImageMostRealSoundThingTribal
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 STEWART ArmArtGiveHerLockMediaQuestionUp
Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it. AL STEWART AdageComeEverForceLeaveNaturalNothingRight
Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually. AL STEWART ArtEventuallyFaceMediaPretendUprise
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall. AL STEWART EmpireFallFutureLaterLookPastRememberRiseSoon
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. AL STEWART EachInsideLeftLoveOneSongSungThemselvesUnited
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain. AL STEWART ColorDressRainRunSilkSunWater
On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. AL STEWART BackBogalCountryMorningMovieTimeTurn
Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. AL STEWART AcrossChurchLandLongOutsidePilgrimPlanRememberSandStoodTravel
The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming. AL STEWART AmberComeEveningExpressionSignSureVoice
We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come. AL STEWART ComeDayMeasureOurStepTurnUncertain
Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes. AL STEWART ArtCafeCinemaLibertineMediaMoviePronozineQueen
Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me. AL STEWART DeniedEverGirlHideLearnLoveSadSomeSongUseWord
There’s room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it. AL STEWART DecentFolkHistoricalLiveRockRoomSingerWorld
