Al Stewart - Real and unreal

Did you ever have the feeling


You're the only person living in the world


And people that you see


Are one-dimensional and never there at all


Even just the commonplace


Warm familiar greetings are a lie


Their voices and their faces are as empty


As the space beyond the sky





Marilyn is walking with her scarf


Around her head against the rain


The doorways and the shops fill up with people


And it's pouring down again


A man with an umbrella seems to see her


But he turns and looks away


And nothing really matters 'cause there's


Nothing that she wants to do or say





In the real and unreal


In the real and unreal





As she puts the key inside the door


She's just an ordinary girl


Did you ever have the feeling


You're the only person living in the world





In the real and unreal


In the real and unreal





Tomorrow comes around


And yet she doesn't feel a part of it all


Did you ever have the feeling


You're the only person living in the world


Only person living in the world


Only person living in the world