by Al Stewart on album Uncorked - Al Stewart Live with Dave Nachmanoff

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 all their

by Al Stewart on album Uncorked - Al Stewart Live with Dave Nachmanoff

I have heard the news from Spain Now you say you've many things yet to be learning And you don't know if or when you'll be returning It depends on how Everything works out If it can somehow In Carvaja

by Al Stewart on album Uncorked - Al Stewart Live with Dave Nachmanoff

I'm leaving my home in Europe behind Heading out for a new state of mind New York town is calling to me Dollar an hour from the company Warren Gameliel Harding Alone in the White House, watching the

by Al Stewart on album Live at the Heath Folk Club

Al Stewart- Gethsemene Again 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

by Al Stewart on album Introducing... Al Stewart

Go and tell Lord Grenville that the tide is on the turn It's time to haul the anchor up and leave the land astern We'll be gone before the dawn returns Like voices on the wind. Go and tell Lord Grenv

by Al Stewart on album Introducing... Al Stewart

In the east the wind is blowing The boats across the sea And their sails will fill the morning And their cries ring out to me Oh, oh, oh, the more it changes The more it stays the same And the hand j

by Al Stewart on album Russians & Americans

Al Stewart - The Gypsy and the Rose Torn between the Gypsy and the Rose I was led on I suppose For the Gypsy was always out of reach I crossed her palm with silver just to know What the future had to

by Al Stewart on album Centenary Collection: The Best of Al Stewart

take my troubles on a Friday night To the heart of the bistro Among the shadows and the low low lights I can find a release-o My favorite waitress will be here tonight I love the way she wears those

by Al Stewart on album Centenary Collection: The Best of Al Stewart

When all the help in the world won't get you by When all the friends that you lean on let you down, You'll wonder why I see you there with your painting box And your oils and brushes and your artist'

by Al Stewart on album Centenary Collection: The Best of Al Stewart

It seems to me as though I've been upon this stage before And juggled away the night for the same old crowd These harlequins you see with me, they too have held the floor As here once again they strut

by Al Stewart on album Centenary Collection: The Best of Al Stewart

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 and out

by Al Stewart on album Centenary Collection: The Best of Al Stewart

You told the man in the Broadway Hotel Nothing was stranger than being yourself And he replied, with a tear in his eye Love was a rollaway Just a cajole away Mist on a summer's day Nothing was clear L

by Al Stewart on album Centenary Collection: The Best of Al Stewart

You say with best intention, lets throw away convention Set sail across the water, to find the tides of fortune I say please understand it, dont' let our love be stranded upon the midnight rocks, upon

by Al Stewart on album An Acoustic Evening With Al Stewart

Meet me at the station underneath the clock Carry an umbrella, no need to talk The man in the homburg, hiding in the fog Will be watching Get yourself a ticket, go through the gate At seven forty-five

by Al Stewart on album Between the Wars

Al Stewart - Age of Rhythm Today I feel like Dorothy Parker Today I've got the critical eye I paint my world just a little bit darker Don't even have to try Everyone seems a little bit desperate Oh

by Al Stewart on album Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

Al Stewart - Where Are They Now I sent my crack divisions through the early morning mist When they fell on your positions you were powerless to resist Encircling and probing for the weakness in your

by Al Stewart on album Chronicles... The Best of Al Stewart

Prince Louis Battenberg is burning the Admiralty lights down low Silently sifting through papers sealed with a crown Admiral Lord Fisher is writing to Churchill, calling for more Dreadnoughts The hous

by Al Stewart on album Chronicles... The Best of Al Stewart

They crossed over the border the hour before dawn moving in lines through the day Most of our planes were destroyed on the ground where they lay Waiting for orders we held in the wood Word from the fr

by Al Stewart on album Chronicles... The Best of Al Stewart

Rainstorm, brainstorm, faces in the maelstrom Huddle by the puddles in the shadows where the drains run Hot dogs, wet clogs, clicking up the sidewalk Disappearing into the booze shop Rainbow queues s

by Al Stewart on album An Acoustic Evening With Al Stewart

Said the apple to the orange: "Oh I wanted you to come Close to me and kiss me to the core Then you might know me like no other orange Has ever done before"