Genius Meanings
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Al Stewart – Trains
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In the sapling years of the post war world / In an English market town / I do believe we travelled in schoolboy blue / The cap upon the crown / Books on knee / Our faces pressed
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Al Stewart – Night Train To Munich
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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
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Al Stewart – Apple Cider Re-Constitution
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This is the seventh track of Al Stewart’s 1975 album “Modern Times.” On vinyl, it is the first song of the second side.
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Al Stewart – Told You So
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In the courtyard of the moon / I was waiting with your slippers / Wanna hold your red balloon / Wanna ride on your Big Dipper / In a dark blue conversation all was lost and then
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Al Stewart – Somewhere In England 1915
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On the platform of an old railway station I enter a dream / And a couple are saying good-bye through the noise and the steam / But it's just "Brief Encounter" my mind is trying to
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Al Stewart – Next Time
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This is the fifth track of Al Stewart’s 1975 album Modern Times. On vinyl, it is the last track of the first side.
This song is arranged into three verses, each a separate
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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 (Ft. Dave Nachmanoff) – Bedsitter Images
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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 streets then clear
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Genius Lists – Songs Based on Historical Events
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This Genius project helps connect music to historical events
Many times, we listen to a song, not ever knowing it was based on an actual event in history. The list includes a very
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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 – 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 – Clifton In The Rain
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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 leaves across
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Al Stewart – Joe The Georgian
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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 of sad
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Al Stewart – A League Of Notions
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“A League of Notions” by Al Stewart appears on his 1995 album, Between the Wars.
This song gives a satirical take on the failed attempt by the powers of Europe and America to
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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 – 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 – Valentina Way
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This is the second track of Al Stewart’s 1978 album, “Time Passages.”
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Al Stewart – Always The Cause
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Bad news over the great divide / Comes in from every side / Still hope won't be denied / There was always the Cause / There was always the Cause / Oh La Pasionara sang / This day
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Al Stewart – Necromancer
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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 / I
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Al Stewart – Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres
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On a Christmas cake day one / Friday in August / In a bookshop in Charing Cross Road / I first set eyes on a girl and at once I did know / She had eyes like a poet and hair like a
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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 – Laughing Into 1939
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Party hat and satin dress / Silver paper curled in her long black hair / Tapping one small elegant shoe in time / Oh, the way she plays with them / Smile at one, then dance with
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Al Stewart – Genie On A Table Top
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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 syncopation
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Al Stewart – Night Rolls In
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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 ago / A
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Al Stewart – Marion The Chatelaine
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When the great collector found her / She was just a girl / She rang a chord inside him / And he stole her to the centre of his world / Many wished they could be in her shoes / But
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