Sand in Your Shoes (2001 Remaster) Al Stewart

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, and you just had to escape So it's goodbye

Flying Sorcery (2001 Remaster) Al Stewart

With your photographs of Kitty Hawk And the biplanes on your wall You were always Amy Johnson From the time that you were small.

Flying Sorcery (2001 - Remaster) Al Stewart

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 thoughts could get away You were

Broadway Hotel (2001 Remaster) 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 Love

Midas Shadow (2001 Remaster) Al Stewart

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 Conquistador, in search of gold For all

Lord Grenville (2001 Remaster) Al Stewart

Go and tell Lord Grenville that our dreams have run aground There's nothing here to keep us in this shanty town None of us are caring where we're bound Like voices on the wind.

Year Of The Cat (2001 - Remaster) Al Stewart

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 of the sun in a silk dress running Like a

Year of the Cat (2001 Remaster) Al Stewart

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 of the sun in a silk dress running Like

One Stage Before (2001 Remaster) Al Stewart

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 and they fret their hour I see those half-familiar faces in

On the Border (2001 Remaster) Al Stewart

The ghost moon sails among the clouds Turns the rifles into silver on the border On my wall the colours of the maps are running From Africa the winds they talk of changes coming The torches flare up in

On The Border (2001 - Remaster) Al Stewart

The ghost moon sails among the clouds Turns the rifles into silver on the border On my wall the colours of the maps are running From Africa the winds they talk of changes coming The torches flare up in

If It Doesn't Come Naturally Leave It (2001 Remaster) Al Stewart

turned out the light And we bent our backs as slaves of the night She lowered her guard and showed me the scars She got from trying to fight Saying oh, you'd better believe it Well I'm up to my neck in

Trespasser (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 before Pausing for a moment underneath your window ledge He turned

Marion The Chatelaine (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 she surely did know how to have

Charlotte Corday (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 away The ghost of Charlotte Corday

Necromancer (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 have never seen this many People gathered in

Night Rolls In (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 footprint lost in the snow That covers the

Angel Of Mercy (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 There is no pleasure waiting here for you

Trains (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 against the dusty railway carriage

In The Dark (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

the dark, in the dark Oh I never saw the danger or the spark In the dark, in the dark I was feeling like a stranger 'Cause I never saw the changes in your heart Those angry words you soon regret Are gone

Time Passages (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 Drifting into time passages Years go falling in

Genie On A Table Top (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 Coming from the sidewalk and the street

Running Man (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

ten minutes, nothing more' Time only for the essentials Better gather them and run The false name inside the passport The gold bars and the gun And once again they've come out of the past And though your

Manuscript (2005 Digital Remaster) 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 houses in

Nostradamus 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, the more it changes, the more it stays the same And the hand just re-arranges

Laughing Into 1939 (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 another Pretty soon they're forming

Blow Your Mansion Down (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

There's a sign in the distance In the hollywood hills And it's calling the faithful to come And you know that they will See the pied piper standing up in the limousine shine Saying here is your ticket

Hipposong (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

not supposed to cry I said My, my Other people's problems do get tedious by and by My, my You can never solve them no matter how hard you try This brought a tear from the large hippopotamus Who said in

Almost Lucy (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 pass the time with you, she can't stay a minute

Last Days Of The Century (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 of the century

Helen And Cassandra (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

According to the myths and legends At the fringes of our memory Paris stole the queen of Sparta And carried her across the sea As they fled, he never dreamt That he held the world in his grip Helen, the

In Brooklyn (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

and the signs' So I followed her into the black lands Where the window frames peel and flake And the old Jewish face behind the lace Even now trying to get to see what's cooking Just John the Baptist in

Bedsitter Images (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 Today has lived and died in

Merlin's Time (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 Down the legions of years The invaders

Soho (Needless To Say) (Alternate Ver.; 2005 Digital Remaster) 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 stand

Feel Like (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

I feel as volatile as the weather Over fields of Scottish heather The night before Hallowe'en You know I feel like A catamaran in summer The beat of a reggae drummer The flag of a brigantine This is the

Night Train To Munich (2005 Digital Remaster) 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

Mixed Blessing (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

on She'd gather her possessions and be gone When the night comes following From the clear blue sky You can see her running Don't you wonder why When the light goes fading From her clear blue eyes Only in

Don't Forget Me (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

going down across the great unknown Lights come on inside the towers made of stone A muffled drum plays out of sight and all alone Summer is over The city lies awake and breathes electric air The sailor in

Electric Los Angeles Sunset (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

Shots split the night, a 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 the ambulance and cops to come Hm mmm mmm mmm

Roads To Moscow (Live; 2005 Digital Remaster) 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 front

Gina Al Stewart

Gina in the King's Road, 1968 Blonde hair and eyeshadow, I hyperventilate Purple leather mini, legs up to there Don't you cast aspersions on my naugahyde affair And she can make you believe You're feeling

Coldest Winter In Memory (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

The coldest winter in memory was 1709 The sea froze off the coast of France all along the Neptune line By the lost town of Dunwich the shore was washed away They say you hear the church bells still as

Peter On The White Sea (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 how it might be Then dark fell into the day And the wind began to rise Peter on

Samuel Oh How You've Changed! (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

Most of the better bred Woollen toys have gone to bed And the teddy bear is a sleeping in the cupboard And the wooden soldiers all And the rubber bouncing ball Are list'ning to the tales of mother Hubbard

Red (2001 Remaster) XTC

"Red" You better watch your tape boys It's the tint that angers the beast Got their sails in the sunset they've already got the east Red red red Don't you let them make you Don't let them

Liberation (2001 Remaster) Pet Shop Boys

Take my hand, I've changed my mind again Really, I believed it true That all who fell in love were foolish But I was wrong, I've learned that lesson well All the way back home at midnight You were sleeping

Runaways (2001 Remaster) XTC

(colin moulding) Oh run-a, oh run-a, oh runaways, (please come home) Oh run-a, oh run-a, oh runaways (please come home) Daddy hit you in a temper, But he?

House Of Clocks Al Stewart

I once had a qilded clock Constructed in la Belle Epoque The hour hand broke, now it won't turn back So long, so long, so long I once had a sundial too But green and wild my garden grew The undergrowth

Before (2001 Remaster) Pet Shop Boys

The telephone's not answered So many times you'll call For many different reasons so many tears will fall before You find your love before it comes knocking at your door Before you know for sure this is