Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.