Optical Illusion Lyrics

(Al Stewart/David Pack/Andrew Powell) 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...Read Full Lyrics

I was a post-war baby in a small Scots town I was three years old when we moved down south Hard times written in my mother's looks With her widow's pension and her ration books An...Read Full Lyrics

Born in England's pleasant green, like a picture postcard scene To childhood spread with fond maternal care From the day that he was born, proud relations came to fawn And complime...Read Full Lyrics

I never was one for talk I keep things to myself Let everyone ramble on When people get to reminiscing I'll always be the one to listen But now I need to find those missing wo...Read Full Lyrics

(Al Stewart) Did you ever have the feeling You're the only person living in the world And people that you see Are one-dimensional and never there at all Even just the commonplace ...Read Full Lyrics

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 pleasures ...Read Full Lyrics

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 w...Read Full Lyrics

On a night just like this, in a place far away He met with a girl in the spring And something about him just turned her around As though she were caught on a string And being s...Read Full Lyrics

I sent my majordomo to your amanuensis To ascertain your feelings, and strip away pretenses And then a few days later, you sent back your vizier And though he spoke quite courte...Read Full Lyrics

We met on the beach amid rumours of war, Your hair in your hand, what you saw you won't say As the newspapers blew in the wind. I can see you're one of that kind Who carry 'round ...Read Full Lyrics