Nothing that's forced can ever be rightIf it doesn't come naturally, leave itThat's what she said as she turned out the lightAnd we bent our backs as slaves of the nightShe lowered her guard and showed me the scarsShe got from trying to fightSaying, Oh, you'd better believe itWell, I'm up to my neck in the crumbling wreckageOf all that I wanted from lifeWhen I looked for respect all I got was neglectThough I swallowed the line as a sign of the timesBut dealing a jack from the back of the packThey said, You lose againOh, I said, Who needs it?Well, don't get me wrong, now I tried to get onWith the jokers that got in my wayAnd I put on a smileAnd I tried all the while to be straightBut they just wanted more all the time and I'm sureThat you know what I mean when I sayThat I'm sick of the touchAnd there's only so much you can takeWell, nothing that's real is ever for freeAnd you just have to pay for it sometimeShe said it before, she said it to meI suppose she believed there was nothing to seeBut the same old four imaginary wallsShe built for living insideI said Oh, you just can't mean itWell, there was never a doubt that she had to get outShe was just looking around for a wayIn the pit of the nightThere was nowhere to hide any moreShe was out on a limb, she was reaching for thingsThat she wanted but just couldn't sayAnd she had to be sureThat she wouldn't get caught like beforeWell, nothing that's forced can ever be rightIf it doesn't come naturally, leave itThat's what she said as she turned out the lightAnd she may have been wrong and she may have been rightBut I woke with the frost and noticed she'd lostThe veil that covered her eyesI said, Oh, you can leave it
Lyrics by Al Stewart
(A Child's View Of) The Eisenhower Years \ A Long Way Down From Stephanie A Long Way Down To Stephanie A Man For All Seasons A Small Fruit Song Accident On 3rd Street Almost Lucy Amsterdam Angel Of Mercy Angry Bird Anna Anniversary Antarctica Apple Cider Re-Constitution Bad Reputation Ballad Of Mary Foster Bedsitter Images Beleeka Doodle Day Black Hill Broadway Hotel Cafe Society Candidate Candy Came Back Candy Came Back [*] Carol Charlotte Corday Class of '58 Cleave To Me Clifton In The Rain Constantinople Denise at 16 Don't Forget Me Ear Of The Night Electric Los Angeles Sunset Elvis At The Wheel End Of The Day Feel Like Fields Of France Flying Sorcery Football Hero Genie On A Table Top Gethsemane, Again Gypsy & the Rose Hanno The Navigator Here in angloa Here in angola Hipposong How Does It Happen [*] I'm Falling If It Doesn't Come Naturally, Leave It [Live] In Brooklyn In Red Square [*] - Al Stewart, Peter White In the Dark Indian Summer Ivich Josephine Baker Katherine Of Oregon King Of Portugal Last Days Of The Century License To Steal Life And Life Only Life In Dark Water Like William McKinley Loneliest Place On The Map Lord Grenville Lord Salisbury Lori don t go right now Lori, Don’t Go Right Now Love Chronicles Lover Man Lover Man [*] Manuscript Merlin's Time Midas Shadow Midnight Rocks Modern Times Mona Lisa Talking Mondo Sinistro Murmansk Run / Ellis Island Murmansk Run\/Ellis Island Murmansk runellis island My Enemies Have Sweet Voices Necromancer Next Time Night Meeting Night Rolls In Night Train To Munich Nostradamus Not The One Old Admirals Old Compton Street Blues On the Border One Stage Before One That Got Away - Al Stewart, Peter White One Two Three One two three 1 2 3 One, Two, Three (1, 2, 3) Optical Illusion Out in the Snow Paint By Numbers Peter On The White Sea Post World War Two Blues Pretty Golden Hair Rain Barrel Real And Unreal Red Toupee Ringing Of Bells Ringing of Bells [*] Roads To Moscow Roads to Moscow [Live] Rocks In the Ocean Royal Courtship Rumours Of War Rumours of War - Al Stewart, Peter White Running Man Russians & Americans Sailing Into The Future Samuel, Oh How You've Changed Samuel, Oh How You've Changed! Sand in Your Shoes Scandinavian Girl Shah Of Shahs Silver Kettle Sirens Of Titan Sleepwalking Soho (Needless To Say) Soho (Needless to Say) [Alternate Take] Somewhere in England 1915 Song On the Radio Song on the Radio [Live] Songs Out of Clay Strange Girl Swiss Cottage Maneuvers Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres Terminal Eyes The Candidate The Carmichaels The Dark And Rolling Sea The Dark And The Rolling Sea The Ear Of The Night The Elf The Gypsy and the Rose The Last Day of June 1934 The Loneliest Place On The Map The News From Spain The One That Got Away The Palace Of Versailles The Year of the Cat Time Passages Time Passages [Live] Timeless Skies Tonton Macoute Tonton Macoute [*] Trains Trespasser Turn Into Earth Valentina Way Warren Harding What's Going On? Where Are They Now Where Are They Now? Year Of The Cat You Don't Even Know Me You Should Have Listened To Al Zero She Flies
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