Manuscript (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

Fisher is writing to Churchill, calling for more Dreadnoughts The houses in Hackney are all falling down And my grandmother sits on the beach in the days before the war Young girl writing her diary, while time

Trains (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

clicking wheels of trains Trains All our lives were a whistle stop affair No ties or chains Throwing words like fireworks in the air Not much remains A photograph in your memory Through the coloured lens of time

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

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

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

Running Man (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 Better gather them and run The false

Bedsitter Images (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

The subway station's closed againSleeps beneath its veil of rainMy footprints broken trail behindSteals the nightlights from my mindThe dark deserted streets then clearToday has lived and died in h...

In Brooklyn (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 coat taking seven harmonicasShe...

Charlotte Corday (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

If you hear a step uponYour stair tonightIf you see a shadow inThe candle lightIt's only your imaginationLeading you astraySee her for a momentThen she'll slip awayThe ghost of Charlotte CordayShe ...

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

Marion The Chatelaine (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

And though she could have told him There were some things that his money couldn't buy She never knew a way to refuse But she surely did know how to have the blues They say tomorrow's such a long, long time

Helen And Cassandra (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

According to the myths and legendsAt the fringes of our memoryParis stole the queen of SpartaAnd carried her across the seaAs they fled, he never dreamtThat he held the world in his gripHelen, the ...

Roads To Moscow (Live; 2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

this section I'm coming home, I'm coming home , now you can taste it in the wind the war is over And I listen to the clicking of the train wheels as we roll across the border And now they ask about the time

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

As I walk across the sky Though it's restless here, why it's only in betweening For the journey that I'm on Is incomplete so to my feet I must rise now and travel on alone Ah, but if you've got some time

Electric Los Angeles Sunset (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

Shots split the night, a bullet lodged in his brainHe must have died instantly, he felt no painA crowd quickly gathered to the feast of the gunWaiting for the ambulance and cops to comeHm mmm mmm m...

A Small Fruit Song (2005 Digital Remaster) 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

Night Train To Munich (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

Meet me at the station underneath the clockCarry an umbrella, no need to talkThe man in the homburg, hiding in the fogWill be watchingGet yourself a ticket, go through the gateAt seven forty five p...

Coldest Winter In Memory (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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

Trespasser (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

on the hedge There was a tightness in his face as though he were on edge I don't know why You see him in your dreams You see him in your dreams You see him in your dreams But I seem to see him all the time

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

When the cock crowsAnd the wind blowsAnd the primrose of dawnIs at your windowsMoving through the deepYou chase dreams across your sleepScarecrows, waiting at your doorIn the last days of the centu...

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

I went floating down the street one dayWith a song playing in my mindHopping and bopping like a ricochetBad news was hard to findThere was a hint of syncopationComing from the sidewalk and the stre...

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

I'm going nowhere with nowhere to go Football supporters taking the waters They're looking round for the twilight daughters Non stop strip club pornographic bookshop Come into the back and take your time

Mixed Blessing (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 the darkest places will she feel at home Tonight From time

Necromancer (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

Oh the sweet addictionOf forbidden fruitOh the strange afflictionThat has taken rootOh the hidden cancerCancer of the soulOh the necromancerInside us allI have never seen this manyPeople gathered i...

Hipposong (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

I was surrounded by a large hippopotamusAnd nine of its friends who declared quite a lot of usAre feeling rather blueAnd we don't know what to doI turned away but the large hippopotamusSaid that hi...

If It Doesn't Come Naturally Leave It (Live; 2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

, I said, who needs it Well don't get me wrong now I tried to get on With the jokers that got in my way And I put on a smile and I tried all the while to be straight But they just wanted more all the time

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

Feel Like (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

I feel as volatile as the weatherOver fields of Scottish heatherThe night before Hallowe'enYou know I feel likeA catamaran in summerThe beat of a reggae drummerThe flag of a brigantineThis is the d...

In The Dark (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

But every wave erodes the shore And tarnishes the star You sow each seed of discontent Wonder where the loving went Every night that's heaven sent The dawn can sweep away And in the background all the time

Angel Of Mercy (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

Every eveningYou come around here in your cloak of liesHalf believingI sit and listen as you offer up the prizePick up your smileJust go faithless friendThere is no pleasure waiting here for youPic...

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

The sun is going down across the great unknownLights come on inside the towers made of stoneA muffled drum plays out of sight and all aloneSummer is overThe city lies awake and breathes electric ai...

Blow Your Mansion Down (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

There's a sign in the distanceIn the hollywood hillsAnd it's calling the faithful to comeAnd you know that they willSee the pied piper standing up in the limousine shineSaying here is your ticket j...

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

When I took my boat out to the White SeaI had no care in the worldNot a cloud disturbed the skyI was dreaming only of how it might beThen dark fell into the dayAnd the wind began to risePeter on th...

Lord Grenville (2001 Remaster) 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 onthe wind.

'Heroes' (Live; 2005 Digital Remaster) David Bowie

I, I will be king And you, you will be queen nothing will keep us together We can beat them forever and ever Oh, we can be heroes just for one day And you, you can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time

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

One Stage Before (2001 Remaster) Al Stewart

the floor As here once again they strut and they fret their hour I see those half-familiar faces in the second row Ghost-like with the footlights in their eyes But where or when we met like this last time

Tumbling Dice (2005 Digital Remaster) The Rolling Stones

Always in a hurry, I never stop to worry, Don't you see the time flashin' by. Honey, got no money, I'm all sixes and sevens and nines.

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

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

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

Midas Shadow (2001 Remaster) Al Stewart

You got your ticket and your hotel keysAnd your overnight bag at your feetYou're looking down on the tropical treesWhile the Spanish maids pick up the sheetsConquistador, in search of goldFor all t...

Broadway Hotel (2001 Remaster) Al Stewart

You told the man in the Broadway HotelNothing was stranger than being yourselfAnd he replied, with a tear in his eyeLove was a rollawayJust a cajole awayMist on a summer's dayNothing was clearLove ...

Young World (2005 Digital Remaster) Ricky Nelson

It's a young worldWhen you're in love, you're in a young worldSo take my hand and let me show youJust how true young love can beAnd whoa-uh-ohIt's a young worldAnd if you'll tell me you're my one g...

On the Border (2001 Remaster) Al Stewart

The fishing boats go out across the evening waterSmuggling guns and arms across the Spanish borderThe wind whips up the waves so loudThe ghost moon sails among the cloudsTurns the rifles into silve...

On The Border (2001 - Remaster) Al Stewart

The fishing boats go out across the evening waterSmuggling guns and arms across the Spanish borderThe wind whips up the waves so loudThe ghost moon sails among the cloudsTurns the rifles into silve...

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

Well don't get me wrong now I tried to get on With the jokers that got in my way And I put on a smile and I tried all the while to be straight But they just wanted more all the time and I'm sure That you

Hey Ladies (2005 Remaster) Beastie Boys

Hey ladies in the place I''m callin'' out to ya There never was a city kid truer and bluer There''s more to me than you''ll ever know And I''ve got more hits than Sadaharu Oh Ton Thumb Tom Cushman

Through the Lonely Nights (2005 Digital Remaster) The Rolling Stones

Through the lonely weekends I'm far from you Why you're coming on, like you're supposed to do, yes Oh, but you know me so well, And your time ain't so hard to sell.