What if you reached the age of reason Only to find there was no reprieve? Would you still be a man for all seasons Or would you just have to leave? We measure ...

Linda was killed last Saturday 'bout fifteen blocks from where she lives in a car crash, people gathered around the gravesite, friends and relatives, dressed in...

Lucy worked a different club every day, And though she put her mind to it, Her heart was never in it, She stayed around just long enough to get paid, She won't ...

Every evening you come Around here In your cloak of lies Half-believing I sit and listen As you offer up the prize Pick up your smile Just go faithless friend T...

Anna turns out the light Sits down alone The echo of his foot on the stair Turning to stone No, he didn't take very much Just your flesh from the bone It's gon...

Long before I ever saw The frost upon your face I was haunted by your beauty And it drew me to this place I felt the chill of mystery With one foot on your shor...

When we came to the station all the trains were rusty, The doors were open and the windows broken in There was grass in all the cracks and the air hung musty Th...

You've got a bad reputation All over the street There's some indication You've been indiscreet Oh I know you can turn on the charm When you feel so inclined Wha...

The subway station's closed again Sleeps beneath its veil of rain my footprints broken trail behind Steals the nightlights from my mind The dark deserted street...

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 Mi...

Late at night, when reality's failed and nothing is prevailing but the wind, I come to you Out of sight, like a fugitive trailing across a barren land, you let...

Sometimes it seems unimaginable That you were every any other way With your white rose face and your orphan clothes, Embroidered jeans and silver chains You're ...

(Al Stewart/Tori Amos) If you hear a step upon Your stair tonight If you see a shadow in The candle light It's only your imagination Leading you astray See her...

Constancy dwells in realms of perfection I hear the call Life is free and love is all Cleave to me Harmony holds forth pleasures abounding And love is free 'Ne...

The rain came down like beads Bouncing on the noses of the People from the train A flock of salty ears Sparkled in the traffic lights Feet squelched soggy leav...

(Al Stewart/Peter White) The sun is going down across The great unknown Lights come on inside the towers made of stone A muffled drum plays Out of sight and al...

Shots split the night, the bullet lodged in his brain He must have died instantly, he felt no pain A crowd quickly gathered to the feast of the gun Waiting for ...

And in the evening when the day goes down She leaves the bright house lights Stands and watches with her coat pulled around As torches light the western skies ...

I feel as volatile as the weather Over fields of Scottish heather The night before Halloween You know I feel like A catamaran in summer The beat of a reggae dru...

(Al Stewart) His flying jacket still has her perfume Memories of the night Play across his mind High above the fields of France A single biplane in a clear bl...

With your photographs of Kitty Hawk And the bi-planes on your wall YOu were always Amy Johnson >From the time that you were small No schoolroom kept you grounde...

I went floating down the Street one day With a song playing in my mind Hopping and bopping like a ricochet Bad news was hard to find There was a hint of syncopa...

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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 awa...

Nothing that's forced can ever be right If it doesn't come naturally, leave it That's what she said as she turned out the light And we bent our backs as slaves ...

Oh I come from Pittsburgh to study astrology” She said as she stepped on my instep I could show you New York with a walk between Fourth Street and Nine” Then o...

Now I've got my payment For the service that I gave They've given me my ticket To this place beyond the grave I suppose it's kind of funny I suppose it's kind o...

I was watching TV late last night And a scene transported me Long gone figures came back to life In a documentary Though I saw them dance for joy I was sad I mi...

Dreamed I was the King of Portugal In a big four poster bed Noble tapestries from wall to wall And a crown upon my head Bells ring and servants bring The jewels...

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, waitin...

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, waitin...

(Al Stewart) He walks into the room He's got a briefcase like a bom A smile on both faces And he call it aplom He wants a bite of your apple Hands you back the...

Mr Willoughby, whose only luxury is the sugar in his tea Teaches history at high Worthington school His clothing has remained unnoticeably plain His common room...

Oh, come away from the day, here I stay Living on the bottom of the sea Down metal snake, corridors, steely gray Engines hum for nobody but me No sound comes f...

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 voi...

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...

Oh baby, come and tell me 'bout your tree house And your candy striped pet mouse And your carpet house feet Hey come tell me about your eyebrows that meet And ...

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...

And I think of you now As a dream that I had long ago In a kingdom lost in time In a forest of evening The archer is bending a bow And I see you bring him bread...

You've got your ticket and your hotel keys And your overnight bag at your feet YOu're looking down on the tropical trees While the Spanish maids pick up the sh...

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 b...

(Dave Mudge/Al Stewart) Hello old friend, what a strange coincidence to find you It's been fifteen years since we last met, but I still recognised you So call ...

Oh the sweet addiction Of forbidden fruit Oh the strange affliction That has taken root Oh the hidden cancer Cancer of the soul Oh the necromancer Inside us all...

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 w...

It was a night meeting: somewhere in a troubled land They came with no greeting; left without a shaken hand Nearby the town sleeping was unaware of what was do...

CHORUS Night rolls in Gone is the wind Fireflies dancing in your eyes Now you're holy again Oh night rolls in Oh night rolls in It's like a dream of a long time...

Meet me at the station underneath the clock Carry an umbrella, no need to talk The man in the homburg, hding in the fog Will be watching Get yourself a ticket, ...

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, th...

It's the kind of grey November day that washes away reflections In the eys of hotel porters And the latticed wooden benches by the sea contain no traveller Or I...

I can well recall the first time I ever put to sea, It was on the old "Calcutta" in eightteen fifty-three I was just a lad of fourteen years, a midshipman to be...

Oh, your pictures, they don't really do you justice little girl For you're careful not to let the camera touch your private world And there's just a hint of sad...

On The Border by Al Stewart The fishing boats go out across the evening water, Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border The wind whips up the waves so...

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...

(Al Stewart/David Pack/Andrew Powell) When I took my boat out To the White Sea I had no care in the world Not a cloud disturbed the sky I was dreaming only of ...

I was a post-war baby in a small Scots town I was three years old when we moved down south Hard times written in my mother's looks With her widow's pension and ...

Born in England's pleasant green, like a picture postcard scene To childhood spread with fond maternal care From the day that he was born, proud relations came ...

(Al Stewart) Did you ever have the feeling You're the only person living in the world And people that you see Are one-dimensional and never there at all Even j...

To Catalina on a fishing boat We call it Henry Cisneros We got no money but we stay afloat The jellyfishes don't scare us You're telling everybody life's a ball...

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 ord...

We met on the beach amid rumours of war, your hair in your hand, what you saw you won't say as the newspapers blew in the wind I can see you're one of that kin...

Before the phone hits the receiver you're halfway to the door the voice said "get out while you can, theres just 10 minutes, nothing more" Time for only the ess...

So here we stand at the edge of 1984, bracing ourselves once again, for the storm approaching is those who long before huddled in caves from the rain The enemy'...

YOu always were a city kid though you were country raised And back in some forgotten time we shared the cold north days But the simple life was not your style, ...

The Gothenburg streets were like silver sheets As I kicked my feet through the snowy world And in that land there I held the hand of my Scandinavian girl We st...

I was drawn by the sirens of Titan Carried along by their call Seeking for a way to enlighten Searching for the sense of it all Like a kiss on the wind I was th...

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 Disappeari...

You're a strange girl, you come from a strange family You're a strange girl, I don't understand your vanity Your mother's taking pills all day, she's looking t...

On a Christmas cake day one Friday in August In a book shop in Charing Cross Road I first set eyes on a girl and at once I didn't know She had eyes like a poet...

On a Christmas cake day one Friday in August In a book shop in Charing Cross Road I first set eyes on a girl and at once I didn't know She had eyes like a poet...

Cut glass porcupine, sailing on the serpentine Fingers on the skyline, pulling down the black blinds Terminal eyes at the edge of the night Rivulet of dark win...

Oh you slipped away from the harbour side In the morning bright and clear And your sails were filled with the rising wind And you laughed for all to hear But yo...

By Al Stewart I sat upon the evening hill the shadows set the night grew still And as I sat guitar on knee a voice of flowers called to me sing, sing to me yo...

I came upon two strangers on a black and white TV in a hotel room called nowhere, in the dead of half-past three Their eyes met across the captain's table, bot...

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 ...

It was late in December, the sky turned to snow All 'round the day was going down slow Night like a river, beginning to flow I felt the beat of my mind go drift...

It was late in December, the sky turned to snow All round the day was going down slow Night like a river beginning to flow I felt the beat of my mind go Driftin...

While traveling northwards on a back country lane I came on the village where first I grew And stopped to climb up the hill once again Looking down from the tra...

In the sapling years Of the post war world in An English market town I do believe we traveleed In schoolboy blue The cap upon the crown And books on knee Our fa...

(Al Stewart/Peter White) When I first saw your trespasser He wandered uninvited To your door He seemed to know his way around Although I'd never seen His face ...

Turn into earth Oh your restless hungry eyes Speak of cloudy summer skies The morning dew Turns into rain Lonely winds will blow my name Dying leaves are season...

Find another lover tomorrow Go find another lover today You've been so long on lonely street That you're surely falling into decay It's time to reconstruct your...

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...

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...

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 i...

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...

Alright, you saw me in the International Times You've got my picture in your book You tell your friends not to call at weekends And now you wear that far off lo...

She said, "Don't you think we're going downhill? And I would hate it to be run-of-the mill Oh, love me or leave me but please don't deceive me For if you do, I'...

She's a mollusk, a seamstress, a princess A priestess, a negress, she knows her position She's a swallow, a willow, a cello, A pillow, a bow and also a physicia...