On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. 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. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.

Al Stewart

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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming. by Al Stewart

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

evening voice expression

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or late... by Al Stewart

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

future past fall

I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come acros... by Al Stewart

I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.

bigs knows world

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

peers running reality

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

rocks rap country

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish... by Al Stewart

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

wells half wish

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually. by Al Stewart

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

uprising media art

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

rocks historical world

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time pass... by Al Stewart

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

all-alone sadness hands

Of all the girls I ever knew by Al Stewart

Of all the girls I ever knew

learning girl song

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

alaska order school

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. by Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

trumpets judgment future

Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. 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?

land long travel

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water co... by Al Stewart

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.

expression rain running

Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come natur... by Al Stewart

Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.

adages ifs

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.

media giving art

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read porn... by Al Stewart

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

media queens art

Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me... by Al Stewart

Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

hendrix peppers real

All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come to my shows, I just don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.

live ignore me people