Al Stewart - If It Doesn't Come Naturally Leave It - 2001 Remaster Lyrics

Lyrics 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 me the scars
She got from trying to fight
Saying "Oh, you'd better believe it."
Well I'm up to my neck in the crumbling wreckage
Of all that I wanted from life
When I looked for respect all I got was neglect
Though I swallowed the line as a sign of the times
But dealing a jack from the back of the pack
They said "You lose again!"
Oh, I said "Who needs it?"
Well don't get me wrong now I tried to get on
With the jokers that got in my way
And I put on a smile and I tried all the while to be straight
But they just wanted more all the time and I'm sure
That you know what I mean when I say
That I'm sick of the touch and there's only so much you can take.
"Well nothing that's real is ever for free
And you just have to pay for it sometime."
She said it before, she said it to me
I suppose she believed there was nothing to see
But the same old four imaginary walls
She built for living inside
I said "Oh, you just can't mean it!"
Well there was never a doubt that she had to get out
She was just looking round for a way
In the pit of the night there was nowhere to hide any more
She was out on a limb, she was reaching for things
That she wanted, but just couldn't say
And she had to be sure that she wouldn't get caught like before.
"Well 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 she may have been wrong, and she may have been right
But I woke with the frost, and noticed she'd lost
The veil that covered her eyes
I said "Oh, you can leave it!"



Writer(s): Al Stewart


Al Stewart - Original Album Series
Album Original Album Series
date of release
31-12-2013

1 Bedsitter Images - 2007 Remaster
2 Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres - 2007 Remaster
3 The Carmichaels - 2007 Remaster
4 Scandinavian Girl - 2007 Remaster
5 Pretty Golden Hair - 2007 Remaster
6 Denise at 16 - 2007 Remaster
7 Samuel Oh How You've Changed! - 2007 Remaster
8 Cleave to Me - 2007 Remaster
9 A Long Way Down From Stephanie - 2007 Remaster
10 Ivich - 2007 Remaster
11 Beleeka Doodle Day - 2007 Remaster
12 In Brooklyn - 2007 Remaster
13 Old Compton Street Blues - 2007 Remaster
14 Ballad of Mary Foster - 2007 Remaster
15 Life and Life Only - 2007 Remaster
16 You Should Have Listened to Al - 2007 Remaster
17 Love Chronicles - 2007 Remaster
18 My Enemies Have Sweet Voices - 2007 Remaster
19 Small Fruit Song - 2007 Remaster
20 Gethsemane, Again - 2007 Remaster
21 Burbling - 2007 Remaster
22 Electric Los Angeles Sunset - 2007 Remaster
23 Manuscript - 2007 Remaster
24 Black Hill - 2007 Remaster
25 Anna - 2007 Remaster
26 Room of Roots - 2007 Remaster
27 Zero She Flies - 2007 Remaster
28 Lord Grenville - 2001 Remaster
29 On the Border - 2001 Remaster
30 Midas Shadow - 2001 Remaster
31 Sand in Your Shoes - 2001 Remaster
32 If It Doesn't Come Naturally Leave It - 2001 Remaster
33 Flying Sorcery - 2001 Remaster
34 Broadway Hotel - 2001 Remaster
35 One Stage Before - 2001 Remaster
36 Year of the Cat - 2001 Remaster
37 Time Passages
38 Valentina Way
39 Life In Dark Water
40 A Man for All Seasons
41 Almost Lucy
42 The Palace of Versailles
43 Timeless Skies
44 Song On The Radio
45 End of the Day



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