 Genius Lyrics
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Al Stewart – Year of the Cat
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Al Stewart’s signature hit from 1976. Inspired by the film Casablanca, and referring to the year found in the Vietnamese zodiac, Year of the Cat reached number 8 on the Billboard
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Al Stewart – On the Border
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[Chorus] / The fishing boats go out across the evening water / Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border / The wind whips up the waves so loud / The ghost moon sails among
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Al Stewart – Indian Summer
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Indian summer, the shops are shuttered and the crowds are gone / The souvenir sellers are moving on / Like summer lovers / Indian summer / The earth is cracked beneath the midday
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Al Stewart – Last Days Of The Century
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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
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Al Stewart – Sirens of Titan
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This is the second track of Al Stewart’s 1975 album “Modern Times.”
The song references Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Sirens of Titan, and uses it’s characters and settings, primarily
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Al Stewart – Love Chronicles
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I 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
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Al Stewart – Carol
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This song is the opening track of Al Stewart’s 1975 album “Modern Times,” which peaked at 30 in the US Billboard albums chart. It is also the first and only single for this album.
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Al Stewart – The Palace of Versailles
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This is the sixth track on Al Stewart’s 1978 album “Time Passages.”
The historical facts come from a document made by Al Stewart to explain the historical context. It can be
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Al Stewart – Hipposong
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I was surrounded by a large hippopotamus / And nine of its friends who declared quite a lot of us / Are feeling rather blue / And we don't know what to do / I turned away but the
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Al Stewart – Midnight Rocks
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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
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Al Stewart – Running Man
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Before the phone hits the receiver / You're halfway to the door / The voice said 'get out while you can / There's just ten minutes, nothing more' / Time only for the essentials
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Al Stewart – Time Passages
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This is the opening and title track of Al Stewart’s 1978 album Time Passages.
The song is also of note of having the highest note ever hit on an alto saxophone by Phil Kenzie on a
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Al Stewart – Optical Illusion
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In my darkest hour just before the dawn / There's no sound from the empty street / But sleep won't seem to come to me / All your words in my head / Linger on and on / They've come
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Al Stewart – Antarctica
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Al Stewart – Charlotte Corday
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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 for a moment / Then she'll slip
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Al Stewart – Ten Cents
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Like an echo in a / Like and in a well / When rain is falling / Like the ocean in a / Like an ocean in a shell / You hear me calling / You can say he didn’t / You can say she didn’
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Al Stewart – Red Toupee
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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 / Too many
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Al Stewart – Roads to Moscow
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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
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Al Stewart – Pandora
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Pandora comes today / As she dazzles and she dances / You find hope and lose yourself again / She never stays the same / She changes moods like summer thunder / Still you look for
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Al Stewart – Sampan
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The sun is high, looking out I see / The emptiness beyond the jetty / Seagulls raining like confetti / On the Water / Sea and sky come together in / A hazy kiss out on the ocean
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Al Stewart – Paint by Numbers
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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
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Al Stewart – Merlin's Time
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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 and wine
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Al Stewart – License To Steal
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He walks into the room / He's got a briefcase like a bomb / A smile on both faces / And he calls it aplomb / He wants a bite of your apple / Hands you back the peel / He's fresh
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Al Stewart – In Red Square
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It's a shame about Stalin, the curator said / He really was one of the best / Just look at the detail on that head / Too bad to melt him down with the rest / But since they wrote
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Al Stewart – Russians & Americans
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So here we stand at the edge of 1984, bracing ourselves once again / For the storm approaching as those who long before huddled in caves from the rain / The enemy's face is so hard
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Al Stewart – Lord Grenville
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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
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Al Stewart – Ghostly Horses Of The Plain
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We opened the door / To see the coming of the trains / Across this land of plenty / We suddenly saw / The ghostly horses of the plains / Their saddles empty / Struck to stone
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Al Stewart – Flying Sorcery
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With your photographs of Kitty Hawk / And the biplanes on your wall / You were always Amy Johnson / From the time that you were small / No schoolroom kept you grounded / While your
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Al Stewart – Lord Salisbury
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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
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Al Stewart – One Stage Before
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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
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Al Stewart – In Brooklyn
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'Oh I come from Pittsburgh to study astrology,' / She said as she stood on my instep / 'I could show you New York with a walk between Fourth Street and Nine.' / Then out of her
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Al Stewart – Gethsemane, Again
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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-
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Al Stewart – Rocks in the Ocean
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On a night just like this, in a place far away / He met with a giri in the spring / And something about him just turned her around / As though she were caught on a string / And
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Al Stewart – Midas Shadow
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You 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 sheets
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Al Stewart – Three Mules
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Three mules came over a hill / They were dragging a cart / Creaking, it seemed to be falling apart / Laden with millions of dreams / It weighed more than they thought / They never
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Al Stewart – Immelman Turn
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I always was the reckless kind, I do what I must do / I put the danger out of mind, and go on / I joined the barnstorm fliers back in 1922 / And above those dusty farms , we put a
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Al Stewart – Broadway Hotel
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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
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Al Stewart – Down In The Cellars
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Down in the cellars of Jean-Luis Chave / All the shadows are leaving / Bottles lying asleep in the caves / You'll see history breathing / From Cote-Rotie down to Hermitage / The
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Al Stewart – Mona Lisa Talking
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This is the Mona Lisa talking / Out on the street where love goes walking / Into the shadows that can't hide you / Here is a voice that speaks inside you / Go home, pretty baby, go
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