Jethro TullMiscellaneousThick As A Brick (Part One)Really don't mind if you sit this one outMy words but a whisper, your deafness D a shoutI may make you feel but I can't make you thinkYour sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sinkSo you ride yourselves over the fieldsAnd you make all your animal dealsAnd your wise men don't know how it feelsTo be Thick as a BrickAnd the sand castle virtues are all swept awayIn the tidal destruction, the moral meleeThe elastic retreat rings the close of playAs the last wave uncovers the newfangled wayBut your new shoes are worn at the heelsAnd your suntan does rapidly peelAnd your wise men don't know how it feelsTo be Thick as a BrickAnd the love that I feel is so far awayI'm a bad dream that I just had todayAnd you shake your headAnd say that it's a shameSpin me back down the years and the days of my youthDraw the lace and black curtains and shut out the whole truthSpin me down the long ages, let them sing the songSee there, a son is born, and we pronounce him fit to fightThere are blackheads on his shoulders, and there he pees himself in the nightWe'll make a man of him, put him to tradeTeach him to play Monopoly, not to sing in the rainThe poet and the painter casting shadows on the waterAs the sun plays on the infantry returning from the seaThe doer and the thinker, no allowance for the otherAs the failing light illuminates the mercenary's creedThe home fire burning, the kettle almost boilingBut the master of the house is far awayThe horses stamping, their warm breath cloudingIn the sharp and frosty morning of the dayAnd the poet lifts his pen, while the soldier sheaths his swordAnd the youngest of the family is moving with authorityBuilding castles by the sea, he dares the tardy tideTo wash them all asideThe cattle quietly grazing at the grass down by the riverWhere the swelling mountain water moves onward to the seaThe builder of the castles renews the age-old purposeAnd contemplates the milking girl whose offer is his needThe young men of the household have all gone into serviceAnd are not to be expected for a yearThe innocent young master, thoughts moving ever fasterHas formed the plan to change the man he seemsAnd the poet sheaths his pen while the soldier lifts his swordAnd the oldest of the family is moving with authorityComing from across the sea, he challenges the sonWho puts him to the runWhat do you do when the old man's gone ?Do you want to be him ?And your real self sings the songDo you want to free him ?No one to help you get up steamAnd the whirlpool turns you way off beamI've come down from the upper class to mend your rotten waysMy father was a man of power, whom everyone obeyedSo come on all you criminals ! I've got to put you straightJust like I did with my old man, twenty years too lateYour bread and water's going cold, your hair is short and neatI'll judge you all and make damn sure that no one judges meYou curl your toes in fun, as you smile at everyoneYou meet the stares, you're unaware that your doings aren't doneAnd you laugh most ruthlessly, as you tell us what not to beBut how are we supposed to see where we should run ?I see you shuffle in the courtroom, with your rings upon your fingersAnd your downy little sidies and your silver-buckle shoesPlaying at the hard case, you follow the exampleOf the comic-paper idol, who lets you bend the rulesSo, come on you childhood heroes, won't you rise up from the pagesOf your comic-books, your super crooks, and show us all the way ?Well, make your will and testament, won't you join your local government ?We'll have Superman for president, let Robin save the dayYou put your bet on number one and it comes up every timeThe other kids have all backed down and they put you first in lineAnd so you finally ask yourself just how big you areAnd you take your place in a wiser world of bigger motor cars(And you wonder who to call on ...)So, where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday ?And where are all the sportsmen who always pulled you through ?They're all resting down in Cornwall, writing up their memoirsFor a paperback edition of the boy scout manual
Lyrics by Jethro Tull
10.08 to Paddington Back-door Angels (Stereo Remix) Best Friends Bungle in the Jungle (Stereo Remix) Flight from Lucifer Forest Dance #1 Forest Dance #2 Forest Dance, No. 1 Forest Dance, No. 2 Ladies (Stereo Remix) Lifebeats /Prelude Magus Perdu00e9 Only Solitaire (Stereo Remix) Overseer Overture Queen & Country Queen and Country (Stereo Remix) Re-Assuring Tune SeaLion (Stereo Remix) Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day (S... The Foot of Our Stairs The Silver Cord The Story of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles The Third Hoorah (Stereo Remix) Two Fingers (Stereo Remix) WarChild (Stereo Remix) ... & The Mouse Police Never Sleeps ...And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps 17 17 [*] 4.w.d (Low Ratio) 4.w.d. 4.W.D. (Low Ratio) A Christmas Song A Winter Snowscape A Better Moon A Christmas Song A Gift Of Roses A Hand Of Thumbs A Minstrel in the Gallery A New Day Yesterday A New Day Yesterday [DVD] A New Day Yesterday [Live] A New Day Yesterday [Video Track][Multimedia Track... A Passion Play A Passion Play (Edit #8) A Passion Play (Edit #9) A Passion Play (Entire Song) A Passion Play [Edit #8] A Passion Play Edit #8 A Passion Play Edit No. 8 A Raft Of Penguins A Small Cigar A Small Cigar [*] A Song For Jeffrey A Song for Jeffrey [DVD] A Song for Jeffrey [Live] A Stitch In Time A Time For Everything A Time for Everything? A week of moments A Winter Snowscape A Winter Snowscape [*][Instrumental] Acres Wild Aeroplane Alive And Well And Living In And Further On And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps Animelee Another Christmas Song Another Harry's Bar Another Harry's Bar Apogee Aqualung Aqualung [Live] Aqualung [Video Track][Multimedia Track] Astronomy At Last, Forever Audition Automotive Engineering Awol Back To The Family Back-Door Angels Bad-Eyed And Loveless Baker St. Muse (the full thing) Baker Street Muse Batteries Not Included Beastie Beggar's Farm Beggar's Farm Beltane Beltane [*] Bends Like A Willow Bends Like a Willow [Cradio Edit] Beside Myself Best Friends Big Dipper Big Riff & Mando Big Riff & Mando Big Riff and Mando Birthday Card At Chrismas Birthday Card At Christmas Black And White Television Black Mamba Black Satin Dancer Black Sunday Black Sunday [DVD] Black Sunday, Pt. 1 Bourée Bourée [Instrumental] Bouree Broadford Bazaar Broadford Bazaar [*] Broadford Bazzar Broadsword Budapest Bungle In The Jungle By Kind Permission Of Calliandra Shade (the Cappuccino Song) Calliandra shade the cappuccino song Cheap Day Return Cheap Day Return [Live] Cheerio Cheerio [DVD] Christmas Song Circular Breathing Clasp Cold Wind To Valhalla Commons Brawl Coronach Crash-Barrier Waltzer Crazed Institution Crew Nights Critique Oblique Cross-Eyed Mary Crossfire Crossword Crossword [*] Cup Of Wonder Dangerous Veils Dark Ages Dharama for One [Live] Dharma For One Dharma For One (Live) Dharma for One [DVD] Dharma for One [Live] Different Germany Doctor To My Disease Dogs In The Midwinter Dot Com Dot Com [Live] Down At The End Of Your Road Down at the End of Your Road [*] Down at the End of Your Road. Dr. Bogenbroom Drive On The Young Side Of Life Driving Song Driving Song [*] Dun Ringill Dun Ringill [Live] Ears Of Tin El Niño El Niño El Nino Elegy End Game Epilogue European Legacy European Legacy Fallen On Hard Times Far Alaska Farm On The Freeway Fat Man Fat Man [Top Gear BBC Radio Session] [*] Fire At Midnight First Post First Snow On Brooklyn Fly By Night Flying Colours Flying Dutchman Flyingdale Flyer For A Thousand Mothers For A Thousand Mothers [Live] For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser Fylingdale Flyer Fylingdale Flyer Fylingdale Flyer [DVD] General Crossing General Crossing Glory Row Glory Row [*] Glory Row [#] God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen [Instrumental] Gold Tipped Boots, Black Jacket, and Tie Gold-Tipped Boots, Black Jacket And Tie Grace Greensleeved [Instrumental] Griminellis lament Hard Liner Hard Water Heat Heavy Horses Heavy Horses (Edited Version) Heavy Horses [Audio Only][Multimedia Track] Heavy Water Holly Herald [Instrumental] Home Hot Mango Flush Hunt By Numbers Hunt by Numbers [DVD] Hunting Girl Hymn 43 I am Your Gun I Don't Want to Be Me I Don't Want To Be Me I'm Your Gun I'm Your Gun In the Grip of Stronger Stuff In The Grip of Stronger Stuff [Live] Inside It All Trickles Down It's Breaking Me Up It's Breaking Me Up Jack A Lynn Jack A Lynn [*] Jack Frost & The Hooded Crow Jack Frost & The Hooded Crow Jack Frost And The Hooded Crow Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow [*] Jack in the Green Jack in the Green [DVD] Jack-a-Lynn Jack-In-The-Green Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square John Barleycorn Journeyman Jump Start Jump Start [Live][*] Just Trying To Be Just Trying to Be [*] Kelpie Kelpie [*] Kissing Willie Kissing Willie [Video Track][Multimedia Track] Ladies Lap Of Luxury Lap of Luxury [Multimedia Track] Last Man At The Party Later That Same Evening Later, That Same Evening Law Of The Bungle Left Right Lick Your Fingers Clean Life Is A Long Song Life Is a Long Song [DVD] Life Is A Long Song [Live] Life's A Long Song Lights Out Like A Tall Thin Girl Living In The Past Living in the Past [*] Living in the Past [DVD] Living in the Past [Live] Living in the Past [Video Track][Multimedia Track] Living In These Hard Times Locomotive Breath Locomotive Breath [Instrumental] Locomotive Breath [Live] Locomotive Breathe Look At The Animals Look Into The Sun Looking For Eden Lost In Crowds Love Story Love Story (bonus track) Love Story [*] Love Story [Live] Love Story [Stereo Mix] Made In England Man Of Principle Mango Surprise March The Mad Scientist March the Mad Scientist [*] March, the Mad Scientist Mayhem Maybe Mayhem, Maybe Mayhem, Maybe [*] Minstrel In The Gallery Minstrel In The Gallery (Edited Version) Minstrel in the Gallery [Digitally Edited from Ori... Minstrel in the Gallery [Edited Version][Edit] Minstrel in the Gallery [Live][*] Minstrel in the Gallery [Video Track][Multimedia T... Minstrel in the Gallery/Cross Eyed Mary Montserrat Mother Goose Moths Motoreyes Mountain Men Move On Alone My God My God [Video Track][Multimedia Track] My God/Cross-Eyed Mary My God/Cross-Eyed Mary [DVD] My Sunday Feeling My Sunday Feeling [DVD] Night In The Wilderness No Lullaby No Lullaby [Incl. Flute Solo] No Rehearsal No Step Nobody's Car Nobody's Car North Sea Oil Not Ralitsa Vassileva Nothing Is Easy Nothing Is Easy [Top Gear BBC Radio Session] [*] Nothing Is Easy [Video Track][Multimedia Track] Nothing To Say Nursie Occasional Demons Old Black Cat Old Ghosts One Brown Mouse One Brown Mouse [#] One Brown Mouse [Audio Only][Multimedia Track] One For John Gee One for John Gee [*] One White Duck One White Duck / 0^{10} = Nothing At All One White Duck / 0=Nothing At All One White Duck/0=Nothing at All Only Solitaire Orion Out Of The Noise Overhang Overhang [*] Pan Dance Panama Freighter Paparazzi Paradise Steakhouse Paradise Steakhouse [*] Part Of The Machine Passion Play Passion Play Extract Pavane Pavane [Instrumental] Photo Shop Pibroch (Cap In Hand) Pibroch (Pee-Break)/Black Satin Dancer [Instrument... Piece Of Cake Pied Piper Pigeon Flying Over Berlin Zoo Play In Time Post Last Postcard Day Protect And Survive Protect and Survive [DVD] Protect and Survive [Live] Pussy Willow Pussy Willow Quartet Quartet [*] Quatrain [DVD] Queen And Country Quizz Kid Radio Free Moscow Rainbow Blues Rainbow Blues [*] Raising Steam Rare And Precious Chain Reasons For Waiting Requiem Rhythm In Gold Ring Out Solstice Bells Ring Out, Solstice Bells Rock Island Rocks On The Road Rocks on the Road [Video Track][Multimedia Track] Roll Yer Own Roots To Branches Roots To Branches [Live] Rosa On The Factory Floor Round Rover Rupi's Dance Rupi's Dance Rupis dance Saboteur Said She Was A Dancer Sailor Sailor (unreleased) Salamander Sanctuary Saturation Scenario Seal Driver Sealion Sealion 2 Sealion II Serenade To A Cuckoo Set-Aside She Said She Was A Dancer Silver River Turning Singing All Day Singing All Day [*] Skating Away Skating Away (On The Thin Ice Of The New Day) Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day Sleeping With The Dog Slipstream Slipstream [#] Slow Marching Band So Much Trouble Solitaire Some Day The Sun Won't Shine For You Something's On The Move Son Song for Jeffrey Song for Jeffrey [DVD] Song for Jeffrey [Live in N.Y.] Songs From The Wood Songs from the Wood [Video Track][Multimedia Track... Sossity Sossity, You're A Woman/Reasons For Waiting [Live] Sossity; You're a Woman Sossity: You're A Woman Sparrow On The Schoolyard Wall Sparrow On the Schoolyard Wall Spiral Steel Monkey Still Loving You Still Loving You Tonight Stitch In Time Stormy Monday Stormy Monday Blues Stormy Monday Blues (Live) Stormy Monday Blues [Live] Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles [Video T... Strange Avenues Strip Cartoon Strip Cartoon [*] Stuck In The August Rain Summerday Sands Sunshine Day Sweet Dream Sweet Dream [*] Sweet Dream [Audio Only][Multimedia Track] Sweet Dreams Taxi Grab Teacher Teacher [Video Track][Multimedia Track] The Chequered Flag (Dead Or Alive) The Christmas Song The Clasp The Curse The Dambusters March The Dog-Ear Years The Habanero Reel The Hot Headed English General The Jasmine Corridor The Little Flower Girl The Rattlesnake Trail The Secret Language Of Birds The Secret Language Of Birds, Pt. II The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles [Enh... The Third Hoorah The Waking Edge The Water Carrier The Water Carrier [DVD] The Whaler's Dues The Whistler The Witch's Promise The Witches Promise Thick As A Brick Thick As A Brick - Extract Thick as a Brick (Excerpt) Thick as a Brick (Live at Madison Square Garden 19... Thick As A Brick (Part Two) Thick as a Brick (Reprise) Thick as a Brick [DVD] Thick as a Brick [Edit #4] Thick as a Brick [Edit No. 1] Thick as a Brick [Edit No. 4] Thick as a Brick [Edit] Thick as a Brick [Extract] Thick as a Brick [Video Track][Multimedia Track] Thick As A Brick Edit No. 1 Thick as a Brick/Farm on the Freeway Think Round Corners Thinking Round Corners This Free Will This Is Not Love Tiger Toon To Be Sad Is A Mad Way To Be To Cry You A Song Toad In The Hole Tomorrow Was Today Too Many Too Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll, Too Young To Die Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll: Too Young To Die (Edited... Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die! Too Old To Rock And Roll Too Old To Rock N Roll: To Young To Die Trains Truck Stop Runner Tundra Tundra Two Fingers Under Wraps Under Wraps (both parts) Under Wraps (both parts) Under Wraps #1 Under Wraps #2 Undressed To Kill Uniform Up The 'Pool Up To Me User-Friendly Valley Velvet Green Velvet Green (live) Velvet Green [Live][*] Walk Into Light War Child Warchild Warm Sporran Watching Me Watching You Watching You Watching Me We Five Kings [Instrumental] We Used To Know We Used To Know [Live] Weathercock When Jesus Came to Play When Jesus Comes to Play White Innocence Wicked Windows Wind Up Wind Up (Quad Version) Wind-Up Witch's Promise Witches Promise With You There To Help Me With You There To Help Me/By Kind Permission Of [L... Wond'ring Again Wond'ring Aloud Wond'ring Aloud (Live) Working John, Working Joe Wounded, Old And Treacherous