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

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 of the night Then she lowered her guard and

Manuscript (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 seems to pause Watching the waves as they come

Trains (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

on knee Our faces pressed against the dusty railway carriage panes As all our lives went rolling on the clicking wheels of trains The school years passed like eternity And at last were left behind And it

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

get out while you can There's just 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

Bedsitter Images (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 here So I leave

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

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

Laughing Into 1939 (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

way she plays with them Smile at one, then dance with another Pretty soon they're forming up a line And she's laughing, laughing into 1939 Oh, laughing, laughing into 1939 Oh, the party draws them in It

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 harmonicas She

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

Silhouetting the smoke on the breeze All summer they drove us back through the Ukraine Smolensk and Viasma soon fell By Autumn we stood with our backs to the town of Orel Closer and closer to Moscow they come

Night Train To Munich (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 precisely, don't be late If

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

Moving through the deep You chase dreams across your sleep Scarecrows, waiting at your door In the last days of the century Leaning from your balcony You said this is how it's meant to be Can't you feel it

Merlin's Time (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

And I think of you nowAs a dream that I had long agoIn a kingdom lost in timeIn a forest of eveningThe archer is bending a bowAnd I see you bring him bread and wineDown the legions of yearsThe inva...

Necromancer (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 one place together Don't ask about it

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

million voices cry 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

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

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

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

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 ...

Marion The Chatelaine (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

When the great collector found herShe was just a girlShe rang a chord inside himAnd he stole her to the centre of his worldMany wished they could be in her shoesBut she surely did know how to have ...

Coldest Winter In Memory (2005 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 they toll beneath the waves Come

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

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 There was a glint of scintillation Hanging over everyone you'd meet And it

Trespasser (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 You said if

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

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 of the night She lowered her guard and showed

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

evening I've been here all of the day 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

Hipposong (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

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 a voice that was growing monotonous You cannot get the sense Of how it

Mixed Blessing (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

She never learned her lesson She had to have it all It was a real mixed blessing I don't believe she saw She liked to keep them guessing Sometime later on She'd gather her possessions and be gone When

If It Doesn'T Come Naturally Leave It Al Stewart

Nothing thats forced can ever be right If it doesnt come naturally, leave it Thats what she said as she turned out the light And we bent our backs as slaves of the night Then she lowered her guard

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

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 all alone Summer is over The city lies awake and breathes electric air

In The Dark (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

was feeling like a stranger 'Cause I never saw the changes in your heart Those angry words you soon regret Are gone but not forgotten yet She may forgive, she won't forget Each individual scar You make it

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

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.

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...

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

Night Rolls In (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

Night rolls inGone is the windFireflies dancing in your eyesNow you're holy againOh night rolls inOh night rolls inIt's like a dream of a long time agoA footprint lost in the snowThat covers the gr...

Balinese (2005 Remaster) ZZ Top

Deep in the South of Texas Not so long ago There on a crowded island In the Gulf of Mexico It didn't take too much money Man but it sure was nice You could dance all night if you felt all right Drinking

Flying Sorcery (2001 Remaster) Al Stewart

On the tarmac with the winter in your hair By the empty hangar doors you stop and stare Leave the oil-drums behind you, they won't care Oh, are you there?

Flying Sorcery (2001 - Remaster) Al Stewart

could get away You were taking off in Tiger Moths Your wings against the brush strokes of the day Are you there On the tarmac with the winter in your hair By the empty hangar doors, you stop and stare Leave

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

I, I will be kingAnd you, you will be queennothing will keep us togetherWe can beat them forever and everOh, we can be heroes just for one dayAnd you, you can be meanAnd I, I'll drink all the time'...

Let's Work Together (2005 Digital Remaster) Canned Heat

Together we'll stand Divided we'll fall Come on now people Let's get on the ball And work together Come on come on Let's work together Now now people Because together we will stand Every boy every girl

Intergalactic (2005 Remaster) Beastie Boys

mile If you battle me I will revile People always say my style is wild You've got gall you've got guile To step to me I'm a rapophile If you want to battle you're in denial Coming from Uranus to

The Big Country (2005 Remaster) Talking Heads

Then we come to the farmlands, and the undeveloped areas. And I have learned how these things work together. I see the parkway that passes through them all.

City of Dreams (2005 Remaster) Talking Heads

Here where you are standing The dinosaurs did a dance The Indians told a story Now it has come to pass The Indians had a legend The Spaniards lived for gold White man came and killed them But they haven't

Midas Shadow (2001 Remaster) Al Stewart

plane The movie runs but you're still working hard And you don't touch your food or champagne I know that when your well runs dry You'll want to know the reason The empty night will bring you no reply As it

Year Of The Cat (LP Version) Al Stewart

Year Of The Cat - 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

Young World (2005 Digital Remaster) Ricky Nelson

It's a young world When you're in love, you're in a young world So take my hand and let me show you Just how true young love can be And whoa-uh-oh It's a young world And if you'll tell me you're my one

Broadway Hotel (2001 Remaster) Al Stewart

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 was a smile away Just a defile away I sought it

Bad Reputation Al Stewart

been indiscreet Oh I know you can turn on the charm When you feel so inclined Whatever I do I can't get you out of my mind It's a sad situation I'm coming apart A clear invitation For trouble to start If

One Stage Before (2001 Remaster) Al Stewart

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 here once again they strut