Jethro Tull are a British rock rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the lyrics, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson Ian Anderson (musician) , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969 #Member history .
Initially playing blues rock with an experimental flavour, they have also incorporated elements of classical music European classical music... [read more] - When Jesus Came To Play
I was in my watering-hole with some ugly friends of minewhen he door came off its hinges like a cork from fizzy wine.He said, "My name is Jesus: I'm the leader of the band.Got to set up my equipment, if you boys can...
- Sparrow On The Schoolyard Wall
(Allright?)You want to be a bookworm? You wanna be aloof?You wanna sit in judgement, Looking down from the roof?Try a wee sensation: but first you have to want to join in.You should be, should be raging Down the...
- Roll Yer Own
oll yer own. Don't mean you got no money.Only that you got no opportunity To shake it with that friend of mine.Roll yer own if you can't buy readymade;You won't be satisfied when you feel The sudden need to unwind.You...
- White Innocence
She drifted from some minor festival.Didn't look like any summer of love:Just a thousand weekend warriors in a muddy field.She was the hand to fit my glove.Funny thing, the innocence of the lonely.Funny thing, the...
- Occasional Demons
Well, you got a big-jib crane waiting to pick you up.Mmmm, you see those snakes that crawl, they're just dying to trip you up.Live out in sad s***s at the back of town.Hold your breath while we do you down'cause...
- Thinking Round Corners
All of you sit up in bed. Don't think in straight lines ahead.Can't sleep? Head spin? Don't think in circles, it'll do you in.Think back to the dream you had; No sense of being good or bad.Jump to the left, jump to...
- Sleeping With The Dog
Her love is like a candle: you light it up at night.Her heart is like a pack of cards: one chance to guess it right.Sometimes I do.She's got a tongue like a viper, but she can whisper like a dove.Soft touch like...
- Still Loving You Tonight
It's a lonely life I live and I live this life to goAnd if I leave you with one thing it's just that I want you to know:I'll still be loving you tonight.I left flowers on your table, left the lock on your door.Staked...
- Doctor To My Disease
I've been treated for mild depressionAnd I've been treated for growing pains.I've been treated for hallucinations;Now I can see it all coming again.Well, you can wind me up. Yeah, you can slow me down.You can dig a...
- Gold-Tipped Boots, Black Jacket And Tie
I'm banered and bruised.I got lines I can't use.My head won't deliver.Well, I'm sold down the river.But I'm turning again.Yes, 'n' I'm turning again.Well, I'm turning again.And I'm turning again.Wearing gold-tipped...
- Rocks On The Road
There's a black cat down on the quayside.Ship's lights, green eyes glowing in the dark.Two young cops handing out a beating:Know how to hurt and leave no mark.Down in the half-lit bar of the hotelThere's a call for...
- Night In The Wilderness
I could he sitting on the left of you.You'd be looking straight ahead.If I was adrift right across from you,You still would cut me dead.I've had better deep discussionsWith this plate of soft-shelled crab.I'd put some...
- Like A Tall Thin Girl
Well, I don't care to eat out in smart restaurants.I'd rather do a Vindaloo: take away is what I want.I was down at the old Bengal, having telephoned a treat,When I saw her framed in the kitchen door.She looked good...
- This Is Not Love
Winds howled. Rains spit down.All these nights playing precious games.Cheap hotel in some seaboard townClosed down for the winter and whispered names.Puppy-dog waves on a big moon seaSnap our heels half-heartedlyAnd...
- Two Fingers
I'll see you at the Weighing-In,when your life's sum-total's made.And you set your wealth in Godly deedsagainst the sins you've laid.And you place your final burdenon your hard-pressed next of kin:Send the chamber-pot...
- Back-Door Angels
In and out of the front door,ran twelve back-door angels.Their hair was a golden-brown they didn't see me wink my eye.`Tis said they put we men to sleepwith just a whisper,And touch the heads of dying dogsand make...
- War Child
[Spoken:] "Would you like another cup of tea, dear?""Er, no, no, no, I'll better go actually, I'll be late for the office",I'll take you down to that bright city milethere to powder your sweet face and paint on a...
- Ladies
Ladies of leisure,with their eyes on the back roads.All looking for strangers,to whom they extend welcomesWith a smile and a glimpse ofpink knees and elbows;Of satin and velvetgood ladies, good fortune.Ladies.They...
- The Third Hoorah
Hoorah!WarChild, dance the days and nights away sweet child, how do you do today?WarChild, dance the days and nights away sweet child, how do you do today?When your back's to the wall,and your luck is your all,then...
- Only Solitaire
Brain-storming habit-forming battle-warning wearywinsome actor spewing spineless chilling lines.The critics falling over to tell themselves he's boringand really not an awful lot of fun.Well who the hell can he be...
- Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day
Meanwhile back in the year One,when you belonged to no-one,you didn't stand a chance son,if your pants were undone.`Cause you were bred for humanity and sold to society one day you'll wake upin the Present Day a...
- Queen And Country
The wind is on the river and the tide has turned too late,so we're sailing for another shore where some other ladies wait.To throw us silken whispers: catch us by the anchor chains,but we all laugh so politely and we...
- SeaLion
Over the mountains, and under the sky riding dirty gray horses, go you and I.Mating with chance, copulating with mirth the sad-glad paymasters (for what it's worth).The ice-cream castles are refrigerated;the...
- Crossfire
Spring light in a hazy Mayand a man with a gun at the door.Someone's crawling on the roof above all the media here for the show.I've been waiting for our friends to comeLike spiders down ropes to free-fallA thirty...
- Batteries Not Included
Six o'clock in the morning,Wake up by the bed.There sits a Japanese toyAnd I like it.See the name on the wrapping,Can't read yet but I know:it's made for me (lucky boy)And I want it.Lights that flash, wheels that go...
- Fylingdale Flyer
Through clear skies tracking lightly from far down the lineNo fanfare, just a blip on the screen.No quick conclusions now everything will be fine,Short-circuit glitsch and not what it seems.Fylingdale Flyer you're...
- 4.W.D. (Low Ratio)
Met a man just the other day, said his name was Jim. Boy, won't you take a look!Got a car for you it's a real steal.Cleaned it right down new brakes, clutch and here's the hook.Yes, it's a 4.W.D. (low ratio).Cash to...
- Uniform
See black, see yellow with little notebooks drawn,See grey stripes bowling down the street.Silver streaks and T-shirts so precisely torn,Strange foreign chaps in white bed-sheets:Uniforms.See golden halo'd men of high...
- Protect And Survive
They said: protect and you'll survive(but our postman didn't call)8lbs. Of over-pressure wave seemed to glue him to the wall.They said: protect and you'll survive.E.M.P. took out the radio(and our milk-man didn't...
- Black Sunday
Tomorrow is the one day I would change for a MondayWith freezing rains melting and no trains runningAnd sad eyes passing in windows flimsyAnd my seat rocking from legs not quite matching,Got passport, credit cards, a...
- And Further On
We saw the heavens breakAnd all the world go down to sleepAnd rocks on mossy banksDrip acid rain from craggy steeps.Saw fiery angels kiss the dawn,Wish you goodbye till further on,Will you still be there further...
- Working John, Working Joe
When I was a young man (as all good tales begin)I was taught to hold out my hand.And for my pay I worked an honest dayand took what pittance I could win.Now I'm a working John and I'm a working Joeand I'm doing what I...
- Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square
Bright city womanWalking down Leicester Square everyday.Gonna get a piece of my mind.You think you're not a piece of my kind.Ev'rywhere the people looking.Why don't you get up and sing?Bright city womanWhere did you...
- For A Thousand Mothers
Did you hear mother? Saying I'm wrong but I know I'm right.Did you hear father?Calling my name into the night.Saying I'll never be what I am now.Telling me I'll never find what I've already found.It was they who were...
- A New Day Yesterday
My first and last time with youand we had some fun.Went walking through the trees, yeah!And then I kissed you once.Oh I want to see you soonbut I wonder how.It was a new day yesterdaybut it's an old day now.Spent a...
- Haru Haru ( Day By Day )
LeaveYeah, Finally I realize that I am nothing without youI was so wrong, forgive meAh ah ah ah~Padocheoreom bushwojin nae mam[Like the tides my heart is broken]Baramcheoreom heundeullineun nae mam[Like the wind my...
- Reasons For Waiting
What a sight for my eyesto see you in sleep.Could it stop the sun risehearing you weep?You're not seen, you're not heardbut I stand by my word.Came a thousand milesjust to catch you while you're smiling.What a day for...
- Fat Man
Don't want to be a fat man, people would think that I was just good fun.Would rather be a thin man, I am so glad to go on being one.Too much to carry around with you,no chance of finding a woman whowill love you in...
- Back To The Family
My telephone wakes me in the morning have to get up to answer the call.So I think I'll go back to the familywhere no one can ring me at all.Living this life has its problemsso I think that I'll give it a break.Oh, I'm...
- Look Into The Sun
Took a sad song of one sweet eveningI smiled and quickly turned away.It's not easy singing sad songsbut still the easiest way I have to say.So when you look into the sunand see the things we haven't done oh was it...
- We Used To Know
Whenever I get to feel this way,Try to find new words to say,I think about the bad old daysWe used to know.Nights of winter turn me cold Fears of dying, getting old.We ran the race and the race was wonBy running...
- Nothing Is Easy
- Hymn 43
Our father high in heaven-smile down upon your son.who's busy with his money games - his woman and his gun.Oh Jesus save me!And the unsung Western hero, killed an Indian or three,and then he made his name in...
- Wond'ring Aloud
Wond'ring aloud -how we feel today.Last night sipped the sunset -my hand in her hair.We are our own savioursas we start both our hearts beating life into each other.Wond'ring aloud -will the years treat us well.As she...
- Locomotive Breath
In the shuffling madnessof the locomotive breath,runs the all - time loser,headlong to his death.He feels the piston scraping -steam breaking on his brow -Old Charlie stole the handle andthe train it won't stop...
- Cheap Day Return
On Preston platform do your soft shoe shuffle dance.Brush away the cigarette ash that's falling down your pantsAnd then you sadly wonder does the nurse treat your old man the way she should.She made you tea, asked for...
- My God
Oh people - what have you done -locked Him in His golden cage.Made Him bend to your religion -Him resurrected from the grave.He is the god of nothing -if that's all that you can see.You are the god of everythingHe's...
- Wind-Up
When I was young and they packed me off to schooland they taught me how not to play the game.I didn't mind if they groomed me for successor if they said that I was just a fool.So I left there in the morning with their...
- Agualung
Sitting on a park bench eyeing little girls with bad intent. Snot running down his nose greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes. Drying in the cold sun Watching as the frilly panties run. Feeling like a dead duck...
- Aqualung
AqualungSitting on a park bencheyeing little girlswith bad intent.Snot running down his nosegreasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.Drying in the cold sunWatching as the frilly panties run.Feeling like a dead...
- Slipstream
Well the lush separation unfolds you -and the products of wealthpush you along on the bow waveof their spiritless undying selves.And you press on God's waiter your last dime -as he hands you the bill.And you spin in...
- Up To Me
Take you to the cinemaand leave you in a Wimpy Bar -you tell me that we've gone too far -come running up to me.Make the scene at Cousin Jack's -leave him to put the bottles back -mends his glasses that I cracked -Well...
- Cross-Eyed Mary
Who would be a poor man, a beggarman, a thief - if he had a rich man in his hand.And who would steal the candy from a laughing baby's mouth if he could take it from the money man.Cross-eyed Mary goes jumping in...
- Mother Goose
As I did walk by Hampstead FairI came upon Mother Goose - So I turned her loose -she was screaming.And a foreign student said to me - was it really true there elephants and lions too in Picadilly Circus?Walked down by...
- At Last, Forever
So why are you holding my hand tonight?I'm not intending to go far away.I'm just slipping through to the back room I'll leave you messages almost every day.And who was I to last forever?I didn't promise to stay the...
- Roots To Branches
Words get written. Words get twisted.Old meanings move in the drift of time.Lift the flickering torches. See gentle shadows changeThe features of the faces Cut in unmoving stone.Bad mouth on a prayer day, Hope no...
- Rare And Precious Chain
Rare and precious chain,Do I have to tell you, tell you once again?Under red lights, on soft nights, it all comes back to you.Rare and precious chainBinds me to your soul round gently pulsing veins.S***led tight,...
- Stuck In The August Rain
Brings Jasmine tea on a painted trayand bends to kiss my frown away.But I'm still still stuck in the August rainstuck out in the cloudburst once again.The cover's on, the coast is clear.We're all battened down, only...
- Out Of The Noise
Glued to the kerbstone, staring.Frozen at the stop-sign too.See that crazy suicide mongrel.He's going to try to cross that avenue.Old dog of experience,ripping through the black and yellow cabs,dodging rickshaws and...
- Beside Myself
Small child messing down, messing downin the streets of Bombay;Cities like this have no shame, no shame:indeed, why should they?Out in the middle distance, several tragedies are playing.I'm beside myself.Big sister,...
- Another Harry's Bar
Wet wind on the sidewalk: I'm staring at the rain.Walking up the street, yeah, and walking down again.And my feet are tired and my brain is numb.See that broken neon sign saying, hey, in you come.Got the scent of...
- This Free Will
She peeled from a stretch black snakewhich slipped up to the hotel door.Darting looks from piercing eyesThe stir of memory and then no more.Well, you know how I have to believe,She can almost remember my name.It's...
- Dangerous Veils
Desert candle in a tented spacethrowing softer shadows on a covered face.Sister, silent to the likes of me -Pay my respects to her propriety.Is this some crazy woman here,dancing behind her thin black veil?Am I...
- Wounded, Old And Treacherous
A walk on the quiet side, late in the day Don't mean to get in anybody's way.The Gods seem willing: sun's in the sky.Old crows cawing as the straight crows fly.There was a time when love was the law.There was a time...
- Valley
Wake hard in the morning.See the young girl milking.Stream rushing by on a bed of stone.Old goats and sandstone cracking All containing Squeezing that river like it squeeze your bones.In the long red, red valley...
- Beggar's Farm
You're taking chances. And your reputation's going down.Going out in the night-time. You think you make no sound.But you don't fool me. 'Cause I know what you feel.If you ignore the things I say Someday soon's gonna...
- Move On Alone
I feel so sad now that she's gone,I've been loving that woman too long.There is no place to go because my friends have all moved,Got nothing but sit in the sun.Got tired of crying, guess I'll move on alone.My bed is...
- It's Breaking Me Up
So many long days. In so many ways.I try to get through to what lies deep inside of you.Oh, baby. I said, you're breaking me up, woman.Yeah, you're breaking me down.You're lying in little pieces scattered all...
- My Sunday Feeling
My Sunday feeling is coming on over me.My Sunday feeling is coming on over me,Now that the night is over.Got to clear my head so I can see.Till I get to put together,that old feeling won't let me be.Won't somebody...
- A Song For Jeffrey
Gonna lose my way tomorrow,gonna give away my car.I'd take you along with me,but you would not go so far.Don't see what I do not want to see,you don't hear what I don't say.Won't be what I don't want to be,I continue...
- Some Day The Sun Won't Shine For You
In the morning gonna get my things together.Packing up and I'm leaving this place.I don't believe you'll cry, There'll be a smile upon your face.I didn't think how much you'd hurt me.That's something that I laugh...
- Play In Time
Got to take in what I can.There is no time to do what must be done,While I do some thinking.Sleeping is hard to come by,So we'll all sit down and try to play in time,And we feel like singing.Talking to people in my...
- For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me
Watery eyes of the last sighing seconds,blue reflections mute and dimbeckon tearful child of wonderto repentance of the sin.And the blind and lusty loversof the great eternal liego on believing nothingsince something...
- Alive And Well And Living In
Nobody sees her here, her eyes are slowly closing.If she should want some peace she sits there, without moving,and puts a pillow over the phone.And if she feels like dancing, no one will know it.Giving herself a...
- With You There To Help Me
In days of peace sweet smelling summer nightsof wine and song;dusty pavements burning feet.Why am I crying, I want to know.How can I smile and make it right?For sixty days and eighty nightsand not give in and lose the...
- Son
Oh, I feel sympathy. Be grateful my son for what you get.Expression and passion. Ten days for watching the sunset;When I was your age Amusement we made for ourselves."Permission to breathe sir," Don't talk like that,...
- Inside
All the places I've been make it hard to beginto enjoy life again on the inside, but I mean to.Take a walk around the blockand be glad that I've got me some timeto be in from the outside,and inside with you.I'm...
- Nothing To Say
Everyday there's someone asking "What is there to do?"Should I love or should I fight, is it all the same to you?No I say I have the answer proven to be true,But if I were to share it with you,you would stand to gain...
- A Time For Everything
Once it seemed there would always beA time for everything.Ages passed I knew at lastMy life had never been.I'd been missing what time could bring.Fifty years and I'm filled with tears and joysI never cried.Burn the...
- Sossity: You're A Woman
Hello you straight-laced lady,dressed in white but your shoes aren't clean.Painted them up with polishin the hope we can't see where you've been.The smiling face that you've wornto greet me rising at morning sent me...
- To Cry You A Song
Flying so high, trying to rememberHow many cigarettes did I bring along?When I get down I'll jump in a taxi cabDriving through London townTo cry you a song.It's been a long time Still shaking my wings.Well, I'm a glad...
- Slow Marching Band
Would you join a slow marching band?And take pleasure in your leavingas the ferry sails and tears are driedand cows come home at evening.Could you get behind a slow marching band?And join together in the passingof all...
- The Clasp
We travellers on the endless wastes in single orbits, glidingcold-eyed march towards the dawn behind hard-weather hoods a-hiding.Meeting as the tall ships do, passing in the channelafraid to chance a gentle touch,...
- Broadsword
I see a dark sail on the horizonset under a black cloud that hides the sun.Bring me my broadsword and clear understanding.Bring me my cross of gold as a talisman.Get up to the roundhouse on the cliff-top standing.Take...
- Fallen On Hard Times
Fallen on hard times but it feels good to know,that milk and honey's just around the bend.Running on bad lines we'd better run as we go,Tear up, tear up the overdraft again.Oh, dear Prime Minister it's all such a...
- Watching Me Watching You
I sit by the cutting on the Beaconsfield line.He's watching me watching the trains go by.And they move so fast, boy, they really fly.He's still watching me watching youwatching the trains go by.And the way he stares:...
- Beastie
From early days of infancy, through trembling years of youth,long murky middle-age and final hours long in the tooth,he is the hundred names of terror, creature you love the least.Picture his name before you and...
- Seal Driver
Take you away for my magic ship.I have two hundred diesel horses thundering loud.Sea birds call your name and the mountain's on fireas the summer lightening cuts the sky like a hot wire.And you ride on the swell and...
- Flying Colours
Shout if you will, but that just won't do.I, for one, would rather follow softer options.I'll take the easy line; another sip of wine,And if I ignore the face you wore it's just a way of mineTo keep from flying...
- Cheerio
Along the coast road, by the headlandthe early lights of winter glow.I'll pour a cup to you my darling.And raise it up say Cheerio.
- Pussy Willow
In the half-tone light of a young morningshe sighs and shifts on the pillow.And across her face dancing, the first shadows flyto kiss the Pussy Willow.In her fairy-tale world she's a lost soul singingin a sad voice...
- Hunting Girl
One day I walked the road and crossed a field to go by where the hounds ran hard.And on the master raced: behind the hunters chased to where the path was barred.One fine young lady's horse refused the fence to clear.I...
- Fire At Midnight
I believe in fires at midnight When the dogs have all been fed.A golden toddy on the mantle A broken gun beneath the bed.Silken mist outside the window. Frogs and newts slip in the dark Too much hurry ruins the body....
- Jack-In-The-Green
Have you seen Jack-In-The-Green?With his long tail hanging down.He quietly sits under every tree in the folds of his velvet gown.He drinks from the empty acorn cupthe dew that dawn sweetly bestows.And taps his cane...
- Cup Of Wonder
May I make my fond excuses for the lateness of the hour,but we accept your invitation, and we bring you Beltane's flower.For the May Day is the great day, sung along the old straight track.And those who ancient lines...
- The Whistler
I'll buy you six bay mares to put in your stable six golden apples bought with my pay.I am the first piper who calls the sweet tune,but I must be gone by the seventh day.So come on, I'm the whistler.I have a fife and...
- Velvet Green
Walking on velvet green. Scots pine growing.Isn't it rare to be taking the air, singing.Walking on velvet green.Walking on velvet green. Distant cows lowing.Never a care: with your legs in the air, loving.Walking on...
- Pibroch (Cap In Hand)
There's a light in the house in the wood in the valley.There's a thought in the head of the man.Who carries his dreams like the coat slung on his shoulder,Bringing you love in the cap in his hand.And each step he...
- Ring Out, Solstice Bells
Now is the solstice of the year,winter is the glad song that you hear.Seven maids move in seven time.Have the lads up ready in a line.Ring out these bells.Ring out, ring solstice bells.Ring solstice bells.Join...
- Songs From The Wood
Let me bring you songs from the wood:to make you feel much better than you could know.Dust you down from tip to toe.Show you how the garden grows.Hold you steady as you go.Join the chorus if you can:it'll make of you...
- One Brown Mouse
Smile your little smile take some tea with me awhile.Brush away that black cloud from your shoulder.Twitch your whiskers. Feel that you're really real.Another tea-time another day older.Puff warm breath on your tiny...
- ... And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps
Muscled, black with steel-green eye swishing through the rye grass with thoughts of mouse-and-apple pie. Tail balancing at half-mast. ...And the mouse police never sleeps lying in the cherry tree. Savage bed...
- Acres Wild
I'll make love to youIn all good placesUnder black mountainsIn open spaces.By deep brown riversThat slither darklyThrough far marchesWhere the blue hare races.Come with me to the Winged IsleNorthern father's western...
- Heavy Horses
Iron-clad feather-feet pounding the dust,An October's day, towards evening,Sweat embossed veins standing proud to the plough,Salt on a deep chest seasoning.Last of the line at an honest day's toil,Turning the deep sod...
- Moths
The leaded window openedto move the dancing candle flameAnd the first Moths of summersuicidal came, suicidal came.And a new breeze chatteredin its May-bud tenderness,Sending water-lillies sailingas she turned to get...
- ...And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps
Muscled, black with steel-green eyeSwishing through the rye grassWith thoughts of mouse-and-apple pie.Tail balancing at half-mast.And the mouse police never sleepsLying in the cherry tree.Savage bed foot-warmerOf...
- Journeyman
Spine-tingling railway sleepersSleepy houses lying four-square and firm.Orange beams divide the darknessRumbling fit to turn the waking worm.Sliding through Victorian tunnelswhere green moss oozes from the pores.Dull...
- Rover
I chase your every footstepand I follow every whim.When you call the tune I'm readyto strike up the battle hymn.My lady of the meadows,My comber of the beach.You've thrown the stick for your dog's trickbut it's...
- Weathercock
Good morning Weathercock:How did you fare last night?Did the cold wind bite you,did you face up to the frightWhen the leaves spin from Octoberand whip around your tail?Did you shake from the blast,did you shiver...
- No Lullaby
Keep your eyes open And prick up your ears Rehearse your loudest cry.There's folk out there Who would do you harmSo I'll sing you no lullaby.There's a lock on the window; There's a chain on the door:A big dog in the...
- Just Trying To Be
There was a time that you were so young and walked in their way,They made you feel they loved you all seeing they say.You're going wrong if their game you don't play,And that the song I sing will lead you...
- Christmas Song
Once in Royal David's City stood a lonely cattle shed,Where a mother held her baby.You'd do well to remember the things He later said.When you're stuffing yourselves at the Christmas parties,You'll just laugh when I...
- Dharma For One
Dharma, seek and you will find Truth within your mind, Dharma.Dharma, each to his own we seek, Together we'll and our stream, Dharma.Truth is like freedom, it doesn't believeBeing true to yourself, Never think that...
- Driving Song
Will they ever stop driving me?Have they ever taken time to seeThat I need some rest if I'm to do my best?Can I please stop working so hard?They just tell me gotta close it hard.Got to think of my health. Can I be...
- Nursie
Tiptoes in silence 'round my bedAnd quiets the raindrops over my head.With her everlasting smileShe stills my fever for a while.Oh, nursie dear I'm glad you're hereTo brush away my pain.
- Up The 'Pool
I'm going up the 'Pool From down the smoke belowTo taste me mum's jam sarnies And see our Aunty Flo.The candy floss salesman Watches ladies in then sandDown for a freaky weekend in the hope That they'll be meeting Mr....
- Teacher
Well the dawn was coming,heard him ringing on my bell.He said, "My name's the teacher,that is what I call myself.And I have a lessonthat I must impart to you.It's an old expressionbut I must insist it's true.Jump up,...
- Dr. Bogenbroom
I have one foot in the graveyardand the other on the busAnd the passengers do trampleeachother in the rush.And the chicken hearted lawmanis throwing up his fillto see the kindly doctorto pass the super pill.Well, I'm...
- Wond'ring Again
There's the stillness of death on a deathly unliving seaand the motorcar magical world has long since ceased to be,when the eve bitten apple returned to destroy the tree.Incestuous ancestry's charabanc ride,Spawning...
- Singing All Day
Singing all day, singing 'bout nothing,Singing all day, singing 'bout nothing,Singing all day, singing 'bout nothing,Oh, my, my, my, oh, my, my, my.Went down to the station to look for her there,Looked through the...
- Sweet Dream
You'll hear me calling in your sweet dream,Can't hear your daddy's warning cry.You're going back to be all the things you want to beWhile in sweet dreams you softly sigh.You hear my voice is calling to be mine...
- Life Is A Long Song
When you're falling awake And you take stock of the new dayAnd you hear your voice croak As you choke on what you need to say,Well, don't you fret, don't you fear, I will give you good cheer.Life's a long song, Life's...
- Witches Promise
Lend me your ear while I call you a fool.You were kissed by a witch one night in the wood,And later insisted your feelings were true.The witches promise was coming,Believing he listened while laughing you flew.Leaves...
- Home
As the dawn sun breaks over sleepy gardensI'll be here to do all things to comfort you.And though I've been awayLeft you alone this wayWhy don't you come awakeAnd let your first smile take me home.The shadows in the...
- Dun Ringill
Clear light on a slick palmas I mis-deal the daySlip the night from a shaved packmake a marked card playCall twilight hours downfrom a heaven homehigh above the highest bidderfor the good Lord's throneIn the wee hours...
- Old Ghosts
Hair stands high on the cat's back likea ridge of threatening hills.Sheepdogs howl, make tracks and growl their tails hanging low.And young children falter in their gamesat the altar of life's hide-and-seekbetween...
- Dark Ages
Darlings are you ready for the long winter's fall?Said the lady in her parlorsaid the butler in the hall.Is there time for another?Cried the drunkard in his sleep.Not likelysaid the little child. What's donethe Lord...
- Something's On The Move
She wore a black tiararare gems upon her fingersand she came from distant waterswhere northern lights explodeto celebrate the dawningof the new wastes of wintergathering royal momentumon the icy road.With chill mists...
- North Sea Oil
Black and viscous --- bound to cure blue lethargySugar-plum petroleum for energyTightrope-balanced payments need a small reprieveOh, please believe we want to bein North Sea OilNew-found wealth sits on the shelf of...
- Flying Dutchman
Old lady with a barrow; life near endingStanding by the harbour wall; warm wishes sendingchildren on the cold sea swell not fishers of men gone to chase away the last herring:come empty home again.So come all you...
- Orion
Orion, won't you give me your star signOrion, get up on the sky-lineI'm high on my hill and I feel fineOrion, let's sip the heaven's heady wineOrion, light your lights:come guard the open spacesfrom the black horizon...
- No Rehearsal
Did you learn your lines today? Well, there is no rehearsal.The tickets have all been sold For tomorrow's matinee.There's a telegram from the writer, But there is no rehearsal.The electrician has been told To make the...
- Look At The Animals
The tiny ant leaves his tiny ant drops in the sand,And makes his home inside a rusty watering can,Occasionally going out to look for bread and jam.He runs into a sparrow who hasn't eaten for a week,And later, quite...
- Left Right
The master playwrightUrges you to play right/play wrong;Life is long and every night's the first night.The wardrobe mistressUrges you to dress left/dress right;What a mess, well, your underpants are too tight.Who's on...
- Solitaire
Brain-storming, habit-forming, Battle-warning weary winsome actor Spewing spineless chilling lines.The critics falling over to tell themselves He's boring and really not an awful lot of fun.Well, who the hell can he...
- Audition
Then God, the director, smells a rat.Pulls another rabbit from His hat.Sniffs the air and He says, "Well, that's that I'm going."The actors milling helplessly The script is blowing out to sea.But what the hell, We...
- Scenario
In long years of ancient time, Stood alone a friend of mine.Reflected by the ever-burning sigh Of a god who happened by.And in the dawn, there came the song Of some sweet lady singing in his ear.Your god has gone, and...
- Law Of The Bungle Part II
[Instrumental](Spoken:)"Hello. This is 'Law of the Bungle Part II'. By the way, I'm Martin Barre; but sometimes I'm an owl, and my feathers are really smooth, and when I feel romantic I like to dress up in men's...
- Critique Oblique
Critic of the black and white it's your first night.The Passion Play gets in the way - spoils your insight.Tell me how the baby's made, how the lady's laid,Why the old dogs howl with sadness.(Spoken:)The blue thing in...
- Post Last
(One two three two)The editor lies screaming (baking in his waking dream),Questioning "Who is God's favorite rock star this week?''And will the front page pay take him?The deadline for the headline is the breadline.
- Law Of The Bungle
The tiger flashes sharpened teeth.Bowler-hatted; summer briefs beneath his pinstriped skin.To kill demands a business sense;Economy moves non-residence approaching from down-wind.Being a tiger means you laughWhenever...
- Skating Away
Mean while back in the year oneWhen you belonged to no oneYou didn´t stand a chance sonIf your pants were undone´Cause you were bread for humanityAnd sold to societyOne day you´ll wake in the present daysA million...
- Bungle In The Jungle
Bungle in the JungleJETHRO TULLWalking through forests of palm tree apartments ---scoff at the monkeys who live in their dark tentsdown by the waterhole --- drunk every Friday ---eating their nuts --- saving their...
- Tomorrow Was Today
Silver lights are flashing all along the motorway --there's 100,000 travellers [passengers?] who are 21 today.So it's goodnight, stay bright,well it's goodnight, sleep tight [or don't look back],well it's goodnight,...
- Living In The Past
Living In The PastJethro TullHappy and I'm smiling,walk a mile to drink your water.You know I'd love to love you,and above you there's no other.We'll go walking outwhile others shout of war's disaster.Oh, we won't...
- Thick As A Brick
Really don't mind if you sit this one out. My words but a whisper -- your deafness a SHOUT.I may make you feel but I can't make you think.Your sperm's in the gutter -- your love's in the sink.So you ride yourselves...
- Too Old To Rock N Roll: To Young To Die
The old Rocker wore his hair too long,wore his trouser cuffs too tight.Unfashionable to the end --- drank his ale too light.Death's head belt buckle --- yesterday's dreams ---the transport caf' prophet of doom.Ringing...
- Crazed Institution
Just a little touch of make-up; just a little touch of bull;just a little 3-chord trick embedded in your platform soul;you can wear a gold Piaget on your Semaphore wrist;you can dance the old adage with a dapper new...
- Pied Piper
Now if you think Ray blew it,There was nothing to it.They patched him up as good as new.You can see him every day Riding down the queen's highway,Handing out his small cigars To the kids from school.And all the little...
- Quizz Kid
Cut along the dotted line slip in and seal the flap.Postal competition crazy, though you wear the dunce's cap.Win a fortnight in Ibiza line up for the big hand out.You'll never know unless you try what winning's all...
- From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser
From a dead beat to an old greaser, here's thinking of you.You won't remember the long nights;coffee bars; black tights and white thighsin shop windows where blonde assistants fully-fashioned a world madeof dummies...
- Bad-Eyed And Loveless
Yes'n she's bad-eyed and she's loveless.A young man's fancy and an old man's dream.I'm self raising and I flower in her company.Give me no sugar without her cream.She's a warm fart at Christmas.She's a breath of...
- Salamander
Salamander, Born in the sun-kissed flame.Who was it lit your candle Branded you with your name?I see you walking by my windowIn your Kensington haze.Salamander, burn for meAnd I'll burn for you.
- Big Dipper
The mist rolls off the beaches:The train rolls into the station.Weekend happiness seekers pent-up saturation.Well, we don't mean anyone any harm,We weren't on the Glasgow train.See you at the Pleasure...
- Taxi Grab
Shake a leg, it's the big rush,Can't find a taxi can't find a bus.Bodies jammed in the undergroundEvacuating London town.Nowhere to put your feetAs the big store shoppers and the pavements meet.Red lights pin stripes...
- The Chequered Flag (Dead Or Alive)
The disc brakes drag,the chequered flag sweeps across the oil-slick track.The young man's home; dry as a bone.His helmet off, he waves: the crowd waves back.One lap victory roll. Gladiator soul.The taker of the day in...
- Hunt By Numbers
Hey little buddies: soft and silky night walkers. Dangerous species - Tiptoe menace long grass stalkers on my bed: no butter melting in your jaws. Bonding monster - Lethal weapon wearing claws. Let's go out to hunt by...
- Far Alaska
Placing people in their dreamscape with fantasies of foreign fields Lofty spires all well appointed In off-season special deals. To far Alaska: down to Rio in the Carnival Norwegian fjords in the ever-light of...
- Wicked Windows
I review my past through wicked windows Framed in silver And hung in toughened glass, upon my face, Around and over. Now and then: memories of men who loved me. No stolen kiss - could match their march on hot coals...
- Hot Mango Flush
Hot mango flush. Ladies with ice cream hair - Gyroscopic pink neon beams - Everybody's happy about something. The crowd moves like a flock of starlings:they switch direction as one. Jive on the jukebox - Jack and...
- A Gift Of Roses
I count the hours: you count the days. Together, we count the minutes in this Passion Play. Walk dusty miles. And I ride that train on a first class ticket, just to be with you again. Picking up tired feet. Back from...
- Bends Like A Willow
She's catching the wind: the gentlest of breezes. It's a sensitive passage she's sailing Through stormy straits, navigates my unfathomable failings. She rises before me, reading me clearly. Empty nest left pressed in...
- Dot Com
It's a wide world out there So much wider than imagined I can't quite put my finger on the pulse Of your heart softly beating Just beneath the raw silk sheen That reflects the tints of autumn from the hills. So punch...
- El Niño
As one, wet merchants turn their eyes towards the west. Trade winds falter as if in dire consequence. Freezing fish to fry, fail to materialise. Christ-child, blood-warm current sends to touch the skies. El Niño. El...
- The Dog-Ear Years
Rusted and ropy. Dog-eared old copy. Vintage and classic, or just plain Jurassic: all words to describe me. Relaxed in the knowledge that happily present are all things to sustain me, nurture and claim me: roll back...
- Spiral
Kilometers from nowhere on a scented avenue Lined with poppy girls. I didn't stop, stop to say hello. Curious vendors - waving bric-a-brac Looked me over Thought it best, best that I should go. Don't wake me: I'm...
- Nothin' At All
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- Black Mamba
Hand in the snake pit - black mamba chase. Head through the lion's cage - head on a plate. Two feet on the hot coals - last dance at the ball. Blindfold on the tightrope - whenever you call. Be my slippery slider....
- It All Trickles Down
There's a dragon-tail swishing behind tonight. Poison's rising. I'm up too tight. I might not be responsible For the things that I might do. My tanks are full and my dogs are loose. Bees in my bonnet. Stew in juice....
- AWOL
Stormy-eyed on the edge of dawn: nose pressed against the triple glaze. Floor to ceiling, wall to wall, silent traffic streams both ways. Along the fussy freeway drivers dream of sunday barbecues. Of a sudden, seems I...
- Best Friends
All your best friends' telephones Never cooled from the heat of your hand.There's a line in a front-page story, 13 horses that also-ran.Climb in your old umbrella. Does it have a nasty tear in the dome?But the rain...
- A Passion Play
"Do you still see me even here?" (The silver cord lies on the ground.) "And so I'm dead", the young man said over the hill (not a wish away). My friends (as one) all stand aligned although their taxis came too late....
- The Foot Of Our Stairs
We sleep by the ever-bright hole in the door,eat in the corner, talk to the floor,cheating the spiders who come to say "Please",(politely). They bend at the knees.Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs.Old gentlemen...
- Flight From Lucifer
Flee the icy Lucifer. Oh he's an awful fellow!What a mistake! I didn't take a feather from his pillow.Here's the everlasting rub: neither am I good or bad.I'd give up my halo for a horn and the horn for the hat I once...
- Magus Perde
Hail! Son of kings make the ever-dying signcross your fingers in the sky for those about to BE.There am I waiting along the sand.Cast your sweet spell upon the land and sea.Magus Perde, take your hand from off the...
- Overseer Overture
Colours I've none, dark or light, red, white or blue.Cold is my touch (freezing).Summoned by name - I am the overseer over you.Given this command to watch o'er our miserable sphere.Fallen from grace, called on to...
- Epilogue
There was a rush along the Fulham RoadInto the Ever-passion Play.
- Memory Bank
All along the icy wastes There are faces smiling in the gloom.Roll up roll down, Feeling unwound? Step into the viewing room.The cameras were all around.We've got you taped you're in the play.Here's your I.D. (Ideal...
- The Silver Cord
"Do you still see me even here?"(The silver cord lies on the ground.)"And so I'm dead'", the young man saidover the hill (not a wish away).My friends (as one) all stand alignedalthough their taxis came too late.There...
- The Story Of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles
[Spoken:]This is the story of the hare who lost his spectacles.Owl loved to rest quietly whilst no one was watching. Sitting on a fence one day,he was surprised when suddenly a kangaroo ran close by. Now this may not...
- Budapest
I think she was a middle-distance runner...(the translation wasn't clear).Could be a budding stately hero.International competition in a year.She was a good enough reason for a party...(well, you couldn't keep up on a...
- Mountain Men
The poacher and his daughter throw soft shadows on the water in the night.A thin moon slips behind them as they pull the net with no betraying light.And later on the coast road, I meet them and the old man winks a...
- Dogs In The Midwinter
You ever had a day like I had today,when things are stacked up bad?You look around and every face you seeSeems guaranteed to send you mad.And you peer into those hallowed institutions.And they bark at you from every...
- Steel Monkey
As the moon slips up, and the sun sets down,I'm a highrise jockey, and I'm heaven-bound.Do the workboot shuffle, loose brains from brawn.I'm a monkey puzzle and the lid is on.Can you guess my name? Can you guess my...
- Said She Was A Dancer
She said she was a dancer. If I believed it, it was my busines.She surely knew a thing or two about control.Next to the bar we hit the samovar. She almost slipped right through my fingers.It was snowing outside and in...
- The Waking Edge
As I wake up in a room somewhereDawn light not yet showing.There's just a thin horizon between me and herThe edge of a half-dream glowing.Well, you know, I felt her in my dream last night.Strange how the sheets are...
- Raising Steam
Over high plains, through the snowroll those tracks out, don't you knowI'm raising steam.Thin vein creeping; hot blood flowspill a little where the new towns grow.I got my whole life hanging in a sack,heading out into...
- Jump Start
In the dark of the city backwoods, something stirs then slips away.Law and order in darkest Knightsbridge. Crime and punishment at play.Hey, Mr. Policeman won't you come on over.Hook me up to the power lines of your...
- Farm On The Freeway
Nine miles of two-strand topped with barbed wireLaid by the father for the son.Good shelter down there on the valley floor,Down by where the sweet stream run.Now they might give me compensation…That's not what...
- Undressed To Kill
Working on the late shift, First drink of the day.Pull a chair up to the table, Have to look the other way.What kind of place am I in? And who's this over here?Shaking through the silver bubbles Climbing through my...
- Kissing Willie
Breaking hearts in a market town.She eats filet of sole and washes it down With sparkling wine.Nice girl, but a bad girl's better.Qualifies in both ways to my mind.But now she's kissing Willie.She shows a leg shows it...
- The Whaler's Dues
Money speaks. Soft hearts lose.The truth only whispers. It's the whaler's dues.I've been running on diesel. Been running on coal.Running on borrowed time, If truth's to be told.Two whales in the ocean, Cruising the...
- Strange Avenues
Strange avenues where you lose all sense of directionAnd everywhere is Main Street in the winter sun.The wino sleeps cold coat lined with the money section.Looking like a a record cover from 1971.And here am I warm...
- Big Riff And Mando
Marty loved the sound of the stolen mandolin.Somebody took it on a dare in the night-time.Run up to the radio, calling out to the wind.Now, bring it, bring it back at least an hour before flight time.It was a...
- The Rattlesnake Trail
I wear a hair shirt round my shoulder.Got a cold stew in my spoon.And I'm falling on my head, lifting feet of leadNow it's got me baying at the moon.Well, there's a race on for tomorrow.I'm stretching out for what...
- Heavy Water
I walked out in the city night,A burning in my eyes, Like it was broad daylight.And it was hot, Down there in the crowd.The stars went out Behind a thunder cloud.Chatter in the air, Like a telegraph line.Big drops...
- Rock Island
Savage night on a misty island. Lights wink out in the canyon walls.Two old boys in a stolen racer. Black rubber contrails in the unwashed halls.And all roads out of here, Seem to lead right back to the Rock...
- Ears Of Tin
In the last hours of a sunset rendezvousChill breeze against tide, That carries me from you.Got a job in a southern city Got some lead-free in my tank.Now I must whisper goodbye I'm bound for the mainland.Island in...
- Another Christmas Song
Hope everybody's ringing on their own bell, this fine morning.Hope everyone's connected to that long distance phone.Old man, he's a mountain.Old man, he's an island.Old man, he's a-walking says:"I'm going to call,...
- Requiem
Well, I saw a bird todayflying from a bushand the wind blew it away.And the black-eyed mother sunscorched the butterfly at playvelvet veined. I saw it burn.With a wintry storm-blown sigh,a silver cloud blew right on...
- Baker Street Muse
Windy bus-stop. Click. Shop-window. Heel.Shady gentleman. Fly-button. Feel.In the underpass, the blind man stands.With cold flute hands.Symphony match-seller, breath out of time.You can call me on another line.Indian...
- Grace
Hello sun.Hello bird.Hello my lady.Hello breakfast.May I buy you again tomorrow?
- Black Satin Dancer
Come, let me play with you, black satin dancer.In all your giving, given is the answer.Tearing life from limb and looking sweeterthan the brightest flower in my garden.Begging your pardon shedding right unreason.Over...
- One White Duck / 0/10 = Nothing At All
There's a haze on the skyline, to wish me on my way.And there's a note on the telephone some roses on a tray.And the motorway's stretching right out to us all,as I pull on my old wings one white duck on your...
- Minstrel In The Gallery
The minstrel in the gallerylooked down upon the smiling faces.He met the gazes observed the spacesbetween the old men's cackle.He brewed a song of love and hatred,oblique suggestions and he waited.He polarized the...
- Cold Wind To Valhalla
And ride with us young bonny lasswith the angels of the night.Crack wind clatter flesh rein biteon an out-size unicorn.Rough-shod winging sky blue flighton a cold wind to Valhalla.And join with us pleaseValkyrie...
- John Barleycorn
There were three men, came out of the west,Their fortunes for to tryAnd these three men made a solemn vow:John Barleycorn must die!Well, they've ploughed, They've sown, the've harrowed him in.Threw clouds upon his...
- So Much Trouble
My baby left me, my mule got lame,Lost all my money in a poker game.Wind storm came one summer's day,Carried the house and lift it away.Having so much troubleHaving so much trouble.I'm having so much trouble.It's...
- Thick As A Brick (Parts 1 And 2)
Really donÂ’t mind if you sit this one out.My words but a whisper -- your deafness a shout.I may make you feel but I canÂ’t make you think.Your spermÂ’s in the gutter -- your loveÂ’s in the sink.So you ride yourselves...
- Thick As A Brick (Part 1)
Really don't mind if you sit this one out.My words but a whisper your deafness a SHOUT.I may make you feel but I can't make you think.Your sperm's in the gutter your love's in the sink.So you ride yourselves over the...
- Thick As A Brick (Part 2)
LATER.See there! A man born and we pronounce him fit for peace.There's a load lifted from his shoulders with the discovery of his disease.We'll take the child from himput it to the testteach it to be a wise manhow to...
- Rainbow Blues
Through northern lights on back streets I told the coachman, "Just drive me on,It's the same old destinationbut a different world to sing upon.''So he threw back his head and he counted.I jumped out about five to...
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