Love Chronicles (2007 - Remaster)-Al Stewart

[ti:Love Chronicles (2007 - Remaster)] [ar:Al Stewart] [al:Images (His First Three Albums)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Love Chronicles (2007 - Remaster) - Al Stewart (阿尔·史蒂伍德) [00:17.96]I can remember the first girl that I did love [00:21.82] [00:22.60]It was Stephanie [00:25.29] [00:26.20]In kindergarten arithmetic classes she used to [00:30.56] [00:31.16]Sit next to me [00:33.03] [00:34.43]I'd pass her sticky sweets under the table [00:37.80]Where the teacher couldn't see [00:41.23] [00:42.61]Although she wouldn't remember me now [00:45.63]Sometimes I wonder where she can be [00:49.26] [00:59.19]I can remember the first girl I kissed [01:02.73]It was Christine when I was ten [01:06.24] [01:07.50]I'd been told we were moving away [01:10.63]I thought I'd never see her again [01:14.45] [01:16.15]Oh don't forget me [01:19.49]I'll be back when they let me [01:23.00] [01:23.74]Before you learn how to lie when you're leaving [01:27.27]Love is so much easier then [01:31.20] [01:40.21]And at school would you believe three hundred boys [01:46.43]And no girls at all [01:48.13]But you're a fool if you should leave [01:52.18]Just think of the joys of rugby football [01:56.21] [01:57.09]And prep in the morning and Brylcreem and acne [02:00.60] [02:01.19]And cross country running to kill evil thoughts [02:04.58] [02:05.20]I'm surprised that I survived [02:08.43]I ran ten thousand miles with my back to the wall [02:13.64] [02:25.45]I can remember the first girl that I made love to [02:30.19]It was in a park [02:32.23] [02:33.70]In the lower pleasure gardens in Bournemouth [02:37.36]In summer just after dark [02:40.43] [02:41.97]My mind was reeling Oh what a feeling [02:49.34] [02:50.05]I missed the bus and walked twelve miles home [02:53.38]And it really didn't seem far [02:57.67] [03:06.12]And all through my seventeenth summer [03:09.99] [03:10.76]Running together from crowds and ties [03:14.17] [03:15.05]Taking our clothes off and feeling each other [03:18.19] [03:18.74]With fingers and senses and mouths and eyes [03:22.33] [03:22.93]Incurring the glances of old disapproval [03:26.33] [03:27.18]From elderly local inhabitant's eyes [03:31.17]Oh time time we hardly even knew you [03:34.97] [03:35.83]You didn't touch us with your lies [03:39.14] [03:46.81]In the halcyon days of my late adolescence [03:50.83]My goal seemed clearly in sights [03:53.69] [03:55.46]Playing electric guitar with a beat group [03:59.41]We set the ballrooms alight [04:02.05] [04:03.79]Camping it up for the dyed blonde receptionists [04:07.11]Who told us we were al ri yi yight [04:10.52] [04:11.20]On an ego trip for a teenage superstar [04:15.34]On thirty shillings a nigh yight [04:18.21] [04:28.33]And so it fell that I came up to London [04:31.80]To look for fortune and fame [04:35.21] [04:36.64]Starry eyed in my seaside successes [04:40.32]And much too sure of the game [04:43.22] [04:45.18]First girl I met there I thought I'd get there [04:52.99] [04:53.64]But the first girl was nearly the last girl [04:56.87]She left my eyes in the drain [04:59.85] [05:03.79]She sat on my floor in the dead of the night [05:08.52] [05:09.82]Rolling a joint and looking round for a light [05:13.90] [05:15.14]Her clothes were so black and her face was so white [05:19.91] [05:21.04]How could I know what was right [05:24.15] [05:26.31]And I sat all huddled upon my bed [05:31.36] [05:32.49]Watching her in my innocence [05:37.29] [05:40.06]And it was no sense at all but too much sense [05:45.15] [05:46.24]That took me to the bridge of impotence [05:51.20] [05:57.30]Oh artaud's anthology lay spread on the floor [06:03.01]And the thoughts that she gave me [06:06.04]I'd not met before [06:07.70] [06:08.70]And stranded half hypnotised [06:11.58]I watched her in awe [06:13.90] [06:14.42]Of everything that she stood for [06:18.19] [06:20.02]And I wanted more than anything [06:24.84] [06:25.87]To be like her with every sense [06:31.41] [06:33.76]But it was no sense at all but too much sense [06:39.02] [06:40.08]That took me to the bridge of impotence [06:44.87] [06:51.84]She came over to me and kissed me in play [06:56.46] [06:57.68]Taking my hand between her legs as she lay [07:01.84] [07:02.80]And she looked in my eyes but I turned them away [07:07.53] [07:08.49]Finding no words fit to say [07:11.96] [07:14.16]And I hated myself but could not move [07:19.06] [07:20.10]Shattered in my confidence [07:25.35] [07:27.87]But it was no sense at all but too much sense [07:33.10] [07:34.18]That took me to the bridge of impotence [07:38.98] [07:45.37]Now the stare of the lightbulb tore holes in my brain [07:50.74]As she got up in the silence that hung like a stain [07:56.24] [07:56.84]And I wanted to speak or to call out her name [08:02.04] [08:02.60]But how could I begin to explain [08:05.61] [08:08.27]And my prosecuting room still holds [08:13.24] [08:14.37]A strand of her hair in evidence [08:19.71] [08:22.01]But it was no sense at all but too much sense [08:27.27] [08:28.34]That took me to the bridge of impotence [08:33.18] [08:39.41]Oh I still think about her when the night fills with rain [08:44.54] [08:45.68]And speaks in its voices uneasy and vain [08:50.16] [08:50.79]And I think were I maybe to find her again [08:55.59] [08:56.39]Oh I'd probably see her more plain [09:00.03] [09:02.02]And I should have known she was just like me [09:06.89] [09:07.85]It was after all only common sense [09:13.55] [09:15.68]But it was no sense at all but too much sense [09:20.90] [09:21.69]That took me to the bridge of impotence [09:26.57] [09:32.61]But it was no sense at all but too much sense [09:38.02] [09:38.99]That took me to the bridge of impotence [09:44.07] [10:13.64]At first I didn't go out much at all [10:16.51]I just stayed at home in my chains [10:20.18] [10:21.76]Picking over the threads of my confidence [10:25.48]And searching for the remains [10:28.13] [10:30.00]And when I couldn't stand any more of it [10:34.15]Going down to a club [10:36.71] [10:38.14]Mixing in with the sounds and the crowds [10:41.43]I let the music cover me up [10:45.26] [10:54.06]And only lonely the harlequins and painted phonies [11:02.43]Pick their ways through the haze [11:06.06]Of highs and lows and blues [11:09.16] [11:10.69]And all that I could do was to pick my way to you [11:14.56] [11:15.11]Though I didn't tell you [11:16.53]You were just a thing to prove [11:18.58]I was hungry when found you but I'm alright now [11:26.69] [11:28.34]They sigh they lie the refugees and superheroes [11:35.89] [11:36.59]On ice so nice to see you what's your name [11:42.73] [11:44.12]And all that I could do was to say the same to you [11:47.48] [11:48.45]Take you for the moment though [11:50.37]The moment wasn't true [11:51.98]But I was hungry when [11:54.40]I found you and I'm alright now [11:59.50] [12:00.47]Though the street lamp cut through the curfew [12:03.74] [12:04.79]It shed no light on our mind [12:07.35] [12:08.42]It would have been so easy to love you [12:12.00] [12:12.98]At any other time [12:15.77] [12:17.93]Only lonely you came to me the night hung coldly [12:25.28]In your eyes some other time [12:29.71]I might have stayed with you [12:32.34] [12:33.76]But all that I could do was to turn around to you [12:37.63] [12:38.19]Thanks for what you gave me now it's time to say "Adieu" [12:41.96]I was hungry when I found you but I'm alright now [12:49.22] [12:49.99]Ba ba ba alright now [12:56.51] [13:07.61]And so it came that I stood disillusioned [13:10.95]By everything I'd been told [13:13.97] [13:15.65]I just didn't believe love existed [13:18.68]They were all just digging for gold [13:22.07] [13:23.69]Widows and bankers and typists and businessmen [13:27.49]Loved each other they said [13:30.24] [13:31.70]But all it was though was just a manoeuvre [13:35.13]The quickest way into bed [13:38.11] [13:48.03]And so I followed the others' example [13:51.12]And jumped into the melee [13:54.47] [13:55.57]In the hunting grounds of earls court and swiss cottage [14:00.06]I did my best to get laid [14:02.60] [14:04.37]Beer cans and parties deb girls and arties [14:11.46] [14:12.24]Bouncing around in the social confusion [14:15.47]Missing and making the grade [14:18.90] [14:43.87]The very first time I must confess [14:47.79] [14:49.01]I thought you'd be like all of the rest [14:52.52] [14:53.56]And we'd be strangers once again [14:56.62] [14:58.78]By the time we were dressed [15:00.89] [15:02.76]But when you'd smoked your cigarette [15:06.12] [15:07.18]And talked of some people that we'd me [15:10.82] [15:11.61]I found myself asking was it set [15:15.51] [15:17.10]Did you have to go yet [15:18.98] [15:21.97]And so you laughed and then kissed me [15:25.14] [15:26.62]And stayed for the whole weekend [15:29.83] [15:31.24]Although the bed was so narrow [15:34.48] [15:36.00]We had to sleep end to end [15:40.50] [15:47.22]And so the weeks passed through my brain [15:50.79] [15:52.44]In their dadaistic chain [15:56.31]I found myself seeing you again and again and again [16:03.87] [16:06.34]And all you gave you gave it free [16:09.97] [16:11.14]Asking for nothing back from me [16:14.94] [16:15.63]You gave yourself unselfishly as a part of me [16:23.12] [16:26.04]And where I thought that just plucking [16:29.17] [16:30.65]The fruits of the bed was enough [16:33.93] [16:35.41]It grew to be less like f**king [16:38.71] [16:40.00]And more like making love [16:45.89] [16:52.93]Of all the girls I ever knew [16:58.29]Some loved and some denied me [17:04.10] [17:06.04]And all the words I ever said [17:10.31] [17:10.97]Have been no use to hide me [17:16.74] [17:18.71]And all the songs I ever sung [17:23.20] [17:23.73]Each one of them untied me [17:29.37] [17:31.43]And all the girls I ever loved [17:36.35]Have left themselves inside me