I make it pretty plain on other pages of this site that although I know the words to many, many songs, my interpretation of them and their meaning is to say the least suspect. In eager anticipation and over excitement about the upcoming entertainment at the Shepherd's Bush Empire - Ian Anderson : Jethro Tull-The Rock Opera, I have been playing some of the band's old tunes. This has led to many smiles and much enjoyment. Here are a few selected favourite lyrics from the one legged flautist who has given me so much pleasure over the years. Wonderful. "Meanwhile back in the year One -- when you belonged to no-one --you didn't stand a chance son, if your pants were undone."
- Skating Away (On The Thin Ice Of A New Day). "Happy 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." - Living In The Past "I am the wind to fill your sail. I am the cross to take your nail: A singer of these ageless times. With kitchen prose and gutter rhymes." -Songs From The Wood "There was a rush along the Fulham Road into the Ever-Passion Play." - A Passion Play "This is the story of the hare who lost his spectacles." - The Story Of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles - Words by Jeffrey Hammond - from A Passion Play "Sitting on the park bench -- eyeing little girls with bad intent. Snot is running down his nose -- greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes. Aqualung" - Aqualung (written, I believe by Mrs Anderson) "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 no change in his double-sewn seams in his post-war-babe gloom. -- Now he's too old to Rock'n'Roll but he's too young to die." - Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll:Too Young To Die "War Child dance the days, and dance the nights away." - War Child "Let's bungle in the jungle --- well, that's all right by me. I'm a tiger when I want love, but I'm a snake if we disagree." - Bungle In The Jungle "Really don't mind if you sit this one out. My words but a whisper your deafness a SHOUT." "Do you believe in the day? Do you? Believe in the day!" So! Where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday? And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you through? They're all resting down in Cornwall writing up their memoirs for a paper-back edition of the Boy Scout Manual." "So you ride yourselves over the fields and you make all your animal deals and your wise men don't know how it feels to be THICK AS A BRICK." -Thick As A Brick "So you ride yourselves over the fields and you make all your animal deals and your wise men don't know how it feels to be THICK AS A BRICK, Two" Ian Anderson -TAAB 2 Writer(s): Ian Scott Anderson Copyright: The Ian Anderson Group Of Companies Ltd.
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