Al Stewart - Old Compton Street Blues (2007 Remastered Version) Lyrics

Lyrics Old Compton Street Blues (2007 Remastered Version) - Al Stewart



Oh your pictures they don't really do you justice little girl
For you're careful not to let the camera touch your private world
And there's just a hint of sadness in your smile through the dark
As you slip your dress off slowly for the sailor or the clerk
And it could have been so different, and at times you feel bad
For you really did have something that the others never had
And the circle turns and turns and turns so mad, little girl
Ah you must have been just fifteen when you made your mind up first
That you'd make it in the movies and you couldn't lose the thirst
And it took you to the attic where the Agent King holds Court
And his courtesans are fully paid up losers of a sort
He looks at you and tells you that you just might get the part
But you don't get things for nothing and he doesn't want your heart
And the circle turns and turns and turns so mad, little girl
Mmm, you made it to the silver screen and yet you're not a star
And advertising corsets didn't get you too far
But money has its favourites and yours went back to them
So you modeled in a studio in Greek Street for the rent
There you met Antonio, your lover from afar
Who put you on the streets to make the money for his car
And the circle turns and turns and turns so fast, little girl
Ah, your pictures they don't really do you justice any more
For they're crumpled now and faded and were taken long ago
And that faintly coy expression has now left without a trace
Ah there's little of it buried in the ruins of your face
It could have been so different, and at times you feel bad
For you really did have something that the others never had
And the circle turns and turns and turns so mad, little girl
For the circle turns and turns and turns so sad, little girl.
Oh the circle turns and turns and it's too bad, little girl.



Writer(s): Alistair Ian Stewart


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

1 Bedsitter Images (2007 Remastered Version)
2 Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres (2007 Remastered Version)
3 The Carmichaels (2007 Remastered Version)
4 Scandinavian Girl (2007 Remastered Version)
5 Pretty Golden Hair (2007 Remastered Version)
6 Denise at 16 (2007 Remastered Version)
7 Samuel Oh How You've Changed! (2007 Remastered Version)
8 Cleave to Me (2007 Remastered Version)
9 A Long Way Down from Stephanie (2007 Remastered Version)
10 Ivich (2007 Remastered Version)
11 Beleeka Doodle Day (2007 Remastered Version)
12 In Brooklyn (2007 Remastered Version)
13 Old Compton Street Blues (2007 Remastered Version)
14 Ballad of Mary Foster (2007 Remastered Version)
15 Life and Life Only (2007 Remastered Version)
16 You Should Have Listened to Al (2007 Remastered Version)
17 Love Chronicles (2007 Remastered Version)
18 My Enemies Have Sweet Voices (2007 Remastered Version)
19 Small Fruit Song (2007 Remastered Version)
20 Gethsemane, Again (2007 Remastered Version)
21 Burbling (2007 Remastered Version)
22 Electric Los Angeles Sunset (2007 Remastered Version)
23 Manuscript (2007 Remastered Version)
24 Black Hill (2007 Remastered Version)
25 Anna (2007 Remastered Version)
26 Room of Roots (2007 Remastered Version)
27 Zero She Flies (2007 Remastered Version)
28 Lord Grenville (2001 Remastered Version)
29 On the Border (2001 Remastered Version)
30 Midas Shadow (2001 Remastered Version)
31 Sand in Your Shoes (2001 Remastered Version)
32 If It Doesn't Come Naturally Leave It (2001 Remastered Version)
33 Flying Sorcery (2001 Remastered Version)
34 Broadway Hotel (2001 Remastered Version)
35 One Stage Before (2001 Remastered Version)
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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