Al Stewart - The Candidate

Inside the lonely building sits the candidate
His speech is typed and ready, the hundred dollar plates
Sit on deserted tables beneath fluorescent light
But no one comes to hear him; no cheers disturb the night

So where are all the voters? Where the voters' wives?
They've all gone to the movies, trying to understand their lives
The candidate is slipping into some dream of old
Not noticing around him, a thousand rubber chickens going cold.
Al Stewart - The candidate

Al Stewart - The candidate.

The Candidate

video by Peter W.

Al Stewart - The Candidate - Birchmere - Alexandria VA - 6/18/16

Taken with my phone, which isn't very good in the video Dept, sounds decent though. A very short song that according to Al he only performs during an election ...

Al Stewart - The Candidate (RCA 1984).

From "Russians And Americans"

Al Stewart Live in NYC - 13 The Candidate & 14 Katherine Of Oregon - 2016-06-14

with Marc Macisso.

Al Stewart

Al Stewart