Al Stewart — Scottish Musician born on September 05, 1945,

Alastair Ian "Al" Stewart is a Glasgow-born singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. He developed a unique style of combining folk-rock songs with delicately woven tales of characters and events from history... (wikipedia)

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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.
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.