by Al Stewart on album Russians and Americans

One, two, three That's how elementary it's gonna be just fine and dandy It's easy Like taking candy from a baby Primitive country, rich in minerals You pay them with beads Tip the generals It

by Al Stewart on album Sparks Of Ancient Light

There's an independent bookstore The last one that remains All those others you might look for Have been eaten by the chains They soldier on No one cleans the window panes It was there I read th

by Al Stewart on album Time Passages

The wands of smoke are rising From the walls of the Bastille And through the streets of Paris Runs a sense of the unreal The kings have all departed There servants are nowhere We burned out al

by Al Stewart on album Sparks Of Ancient Light

You're on your way back home in a brand new station wagon A pile of rolling chrome, ten miles to the gallon Your mother puts her makeup on, you watch her crunch the gears It's a child's view of the Ei

by Al Stewart on album Last Days of the Century

When the cock crows And the wind blows And the primrose of dawn Is at your windows Moving through the deep You chase dreams across your sleep Scarecrows, waiting at your door In the last days

by Al Stewart on album Sparks Of Ancient Light

One day you fell Down from the sky You oversaw things Forgot how to fly You're an angry bird Walking in circles all alone Angry bird Now you don't belong You stagger round Don't like th

by Al Stewart on album Sparks Of Ancient Light

Lord Salisbury said to me "Though we spend our lives in isolation Girdled 'round by the Emerald Sea No fear shall we know". Look away, look away, look away To the lamp-lit square At the

by Al Stewart on album Miscellaneous

Can remember the first girl that I did love It was Stephanie In kindergarten arithmetic classes she used to Sit next to me I'd pass her sticky sweets under the table Where the teacher couldn't see Al

by Al Stewart on album Bedsitter Images

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by Al Stewart on album Sparks Of Ancient Light

And in the last days of the world of plastic records He takes the car into town He hears the voices of salvation through the static Just turns the volume down A chain link fence round a boarded up ar

by Al Stewart on album 24 Carrots

Upon this day, if all else fails It seems we'll have to face the truth I believe for my part in this thing I really did love you What you loved was love itself And trying to make a lie come true

by Al Stewart on album Sparks Of Ancient Light

In the center of the field stands the favorite player The ball comes floating in, they say a silent prayer for him. Fifty yards away, a minute left to go The ref looks at his watch; Oh, oh He cuts it

by Al Stewart on album Miscellaneous

In Gloucester Cathedral on Saturday night I came to your flower show, blown like a kite And I stood by the tombstones and gazed at the lights on the altar And the horse faced old ladies and tweedy to

by Al Stewart on album Modern Times

Oh, you slipped away from the harbor side In the mornin' bright and clear And your sails were filled with the risin' wind And you laughed for all to hear But you never glanced at the ragged danc

by Al Stewart on album Modern Times

He heard the clatter of her heels in the street The clock said half-past three He lay there waiting in the dark To hear the scraping of the front-door key He wouldn't say to her "Don't wanna kn

by Al Stewart on album Sparks Of Ancient Light

This place is so far away From what passes for civilized life No shops and no cars and no city lights Just a river of stars Over the southernmost ocean so cold A small group of rocks, seagulls an

by Al Stewart on album Modern Times

First time I saw you, you were Mr. Natural You seemed so diffident, you hardly spoke at all Now you come to me and you've got green streaks in your hair You walk like Greta Garbo, but you talk like

by Al Stewart on album Russians and Americans

Lori, don't go right now Now that you've come this far Lori, you don't know how Close you really are. There's nothing you can't do It's up to you to let it go Put the past behind Out of sight

by Al Stewart on album Famous Last Words

I was surrounded by a large hippopotamus And nine of its friends who declared Quite a lot of us Are feelingrather blue And we don't know what to do I turned away but the large hippopotamus Said

by Al Stewart on album Sparks Of Ancient Light

It's a good day for going to sea Hanno the Navigator said to me. There's an open sky and a steady breeze out beyond the Pillars of Hercules. Above the foam-kissed waves seagulls scream up in