Artist: Jethro Tull Album: Living In The Past {1972}

Gonna lose my way tomorrow, gonna give away my car
I�d take you along with me, but you would not go too 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 in my way

Don�t see, see, see where I'm goin�
Don�t see, see, see where I'm goin�
Don�t see, see, see where I'm goin� to - I don�t want to

Everyday I see the mornin� come on in the same old way
I tell myself tomorrow brings me things I would not dream today

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 in my way

Don�t see, see, see where I'm goin�
Don�t see, see, see where I'm goin�
Don�t see, see, see where I'm goin� to - I don�t want to

Going back in the morning, time to see if my love has changed her mind, yeah
Going back in the morning, time to see if my love has changed her mind, yeah
I know what I will find, that she is wasting time
She could be picking roses

Going back in the morning, time to see if my love has seen the light, yeah
Going back in the morning, time to see if my love has seen the light, yeah
Oh, I told her last night she should improve her sight
She could be painting the roof

Going back in the morning, time to see if my love has come around, yeah
Going back in the morning, time to see if my love has come around, yeah
She'd offered me no sound, her head is in the ground
She could be calling for winter

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 tell you to take a running jump
You�re missing the point I'm sure does not need making
That Christmas spirit is not what you drink

So, how can you laugh when your own mother�s hungry
And how can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong
And if I�ve just messed up your thoughtless pleasures
Remember, if you wish, this is just a Christmas song

Hey, Santa - pass us that bottle, will you

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
We'll go walking out while others shout of war's disaster
Oh, we won't give in, let's go living in the past

Once I used to join in, every boy and girl was my friend
Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
Let us close our eyes, outside their lives go on much faster
Oh, we won't give in, we'll keep living in the past

Oh, we won't give in, let's go living in the past
Oh, no, no, we won't give in, let's go living in the past

Will they ever stop drivin' me
Have they ever taken time to see
That I need some rest
If I'm to do my best

Can I please stop workin' so hard
They just tell me gotta push it hard
Got to think of my health
Can I be by myself

Oh, they tell me I'll be home someday
Well, I doubt it if I continue this way
Cos this hard life I've led
Is makin' me dead

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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 be
While in sweet dreams you softly sigh
You hear my voice is calling to be mine again
Live the rest of your life in a day

Get out and get what you can
While your mommy's at home a-sleeping
No time to understand
Cos they lost what they thought they were keeping

No one can see us in your sweet dream
Don't hear you leave to start the car
All wrapped up tightly in the coat you borrowed from me
Your place of resting is not far
You'll hear my voice is calling to be mine again
Live the rest of your life in a day

Get out and get what you can
While your mommy's at home a-sleeping
No time to understand
Cos they lost what they thought they were keeping

Get out and get what you can
While your mommy's at home a-sleeping
No time to understand
Cos they lost what they thought they were keeping

Singing all day, singing bout nothing
Singing all day, singing bout nothing
Singing all day, singing bout nothing
Ooh, my, my, my
Ooh, my, my, my

Went down to the station to look for her there
Looked through the crowds for a glimpse of her hair
Nothing to see but the crowds keep a-staring at me, my, my
Ooh, my, my, my

Down in the street, tryin' to remember
Shuffling my feet outside of menswear
Is that her in the fur coat, no it's not December yet, my, my, my
Ooh, my, my, my

Singing all day, singing bout nothing
Singing all day, singing bout nothing

Back to the house, maybe she'll phone me
Singing my songs, feeling so lonely
I'll sing very softly, so if the phone rings I can hear it, I can hear it

Singing all day, singing bout nothing
Singing all day, singing bout nothing
Singing all day, singing bout nothing
Ooh, my, my, my
Ooh, my, my, my

Well, the dawn was coming, heard him ringing on my bell
He said, "My name's the Teacher - or that is what I call myself
And I have a lesson that I must impart to you
It�s an old expression, but I must insist it�s true
Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun
No sense in sitting there hating everyone
No man�s an island and his castle isn�t home
The nest is for nothing when the bird has flown."

So, I took a journey, threw my world into the sea
With me went the Teacher who found fun instead of me
Hey man, what�s the plan, what was that you said
Sun-tanned, drink in hand, lying there in bed
I try to socialize but I can�t seem to find
What I was looking for, got something on my mind

Then the Teacher told me it had been a lot of fun
Thanked me for his ticket and all that I had done
Hey man, what�s the plan, what was that you said
Sun-tanned, drink in hand, lying there in bed
I try to socialize but I can't seem to find
What I was looking for, got something on my mind

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 witch's promise was coming
Believing, he listened, while laughing you flew

Leaves falling red, yellow, brown - all are the same
And the love you have found lay outside in the rain
Washed clean by the water, but nursing its pain
The witch's promise was coming
And you're looking elsewhere for your own selfish gain

Keep looking, keep looking for somewhere to be
Well, you're wasting your time, they're not stupid like he is
Meanwhile leaves are still falling, you're too blind to see

You won't find it easy, now, it's only fair
He was willing to give to you, you didn't care
You're waiting for more but you've already had your share
The witch's promise is turning
So, don't you wait up for him, he's going to be late

All the places I've been make it hard to begin
To enjoy life again on the inside, but I mean to
Take a walk around the block and be glad that I've got
Me some time to be in from the outside and inside with you

I'm sitting on the corner feeling glad
Got no money coming in but I can't be sad
That was the best cup of coffee I ever had
And I won't worry about a thing because we've got it made
Here on the inside, outside's so far away

And we'll laugh and we'll sing, get someone to bring
Our friends here for tea in the evening - oh, Jeffrey makes three
Take a walk in the park, does the wind in the dark
Sound like music to you, well, I'm thinking it does to me

Can you cook, can you sew, well, I don't want to know
That is not what you need on the inside to make the time go
Counting lambs, counting sheep, we will fall into sleep
And we awake to a new day of living and loving you so

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 chance, there's no need to show her how it should be

She can't remember now when she was all in pieces
She's quite content to sit there listening to what he says
How he didn't like to be alone
And if he feels like crying she's there to hear him
No reason to complain and nothing to fear, they always will be

There was a time when 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 astray
Unfeeling, feel lonely rejection
Unknowing, know you're going wrong
And they can't see that we're just trying to be and not what we seem
And even now believe that it's not real and only a dream

Please, let's have a big welcome for Jethro Tull

Whoo - hello, hang on, press on, be back with you in a minute
I'd better not open this now because it might contain contraband
We'll give it to John, supplement his Camels, right
He's dropped on his head when he was very small
We occasionally cut his fingernails off and smoke them
This is a, a song about, about everything - John Evan on the piano


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Thank you, John Evan, piano, thank you

She's really turned on by the television and vice versa
Here's a song called, uh, and it still features Clive, uh, it's, uh
Yes, right, rearranged though, nevertheless
New lease on life - in other words, it's just a bit louder, Dharma For One


Dharma, seek and you will find truth within your mind, Dharma
Dharma, each to his own we say, together we'll end astray, Dharma, da-da Dharma
Truth is like freedom, it doesn't fool me
Be true to yourself, never think that you're free
Dharma will come eventually

Dharma, Dharma, Dharma, Dharma, Dharma, Dharma, Dharma, Dharma

Dharma, seek and you will find truth within your mind, Dharma, da-da-da Dharma
Truth is like freedom, it doesn't fool me
Be true to yourself, never think that you're free
Dharma will come eventually


Thank you, Clive Bunker
Thanks a lot, thank you all, good night

There's the stillness of death on a deathly unliving sea
And the motor car magical world long since ceased to be
When the Eve-bitten apple returned to destroy the tree
Incestuous ancestry's charabanc ride
Spawning new millions throws the world on its side
Supporting their far-flung illusion, the national curse
And those with no sandwiches please get off the bus

The excrement bubbles, the century's slime decays
And the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say
"It's under control and we'll soon be on our way
To a grand year for babies and quiz panel games
Of the hot hungry millions you'll be sure to remain."
The natural resources are dwindling and no one grows old
And those with no homes to go to please dig yourself holes

We wandered through quiet lands, felt the first breath of snow
Searched for the last pigeon, slate grey I've been told
Stumbled on a daffodil which she crushed in the rush
Heard it sigh and left it to die
At once felt remorse and were touched by the loss of our own
Held its poor broken head in her hands, dropped soft tears in the snow
And it's only the taking that makes you what you are

Wond'ring aloud - will a son one day be born
To share in our infancy, in the child's path we've worn
In the aging seclusion of this earth
That our birth did surprise
We'll open his eyes

Our Father high in heaven, smile down upon your son
Who�s busy with his money games, oh, his women and his gun
Oh, Jesus save me
And the unsung Western hero, he killed an Indian or three
And then he made his name in Hollywood, oh to set the white man free
Oh, Jesus save me

If Jesus saves, well, He'd better save Himself
From the gory glory seekers who use His name in death
Oh, Jesus save me

If Jesus saves, well, He'd better save Himself
From the gory glory seekers who use His name in death
Oh, Jesus save me

Well, I saw him in the city and on the mountains of the moon, yeah
His cross was rather bloody, oh, and He could hardly roll His stone
Oh, Jesus save me

When you're falling awake and you take stock of the new day
And 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 a long song, life's a long song
If you wait then your plate I will fill

As the verses unfold and your soul suffers the long day
And the twelve o'clock gloom spins the room, you struggle on your way
Well, don't you sigh, don't you cry, lick the dust from your eye
Life's a long song, life's a long song, life's a long song
We will meet in the sweet light of dawn

As the Baker Street train spills your pain all over your new dress
And the symphony sounds underground put you under duress
Well, don't you squeal as the heel grinds you under the wheels
Life's a long song, life's a long song, life's a long song
But the tune ends too soon for us all

But the tune ends too soon for us all

I'm going up the Pool from down the smoke below
To taste me mum's jam sarnies and see our Auntie Flo
The candyfloss salesman watches ladies in the sand
Down for a freaky weekend in the hope that they'll be meeting Mister Universe

The iron tower smiles down upon the silver sea
And along the golden mile they'll be swigging mugs of tea
The politicians there, who've come to take the air
While posing for the daily press, will look around and blame the mess on Edward Bear

There'll be bucket, spades and bingo, cockles, mussels, rainy days
Seaweed and sand castles, icy waves
Deck chairs, rubber dinghies, old vests, braces dangling down
Sun-tanned stranded starfish in a daze

We're going up the Pool from down the smoke below
To taste me mum's jam sarnies and see our Auntie Flo
The candyfloss salesman watches ladies in the sand
Down for a freaky weekend in the hope that they'll be meeting Mister Universe

There'll be bucket, spades and bingo, cockles, mussels, rainy days
Seaweed and sand castles, icy waves
Deck chairs, rubber dinghies, old vests, braces dangling down
Sun-tanned stranded starfish in a daze

Oh Blackpool, oh Blackpool

I have one foot in the graveyard and the other on the bus
And the passengers do trample each other in the rush
And the chicken-hearted lawman is throwing up his fill
To see the kindly doctor to pass the super pill
Well, I�m going down, three cheers for Doctor Bogenbroom
Well, I�m on my way, three cheers for Doctor Bogenbroom

Well, I�ve tried my best to love you all, yeah, all you hypocrites and whores
With your eyes on each other and the locks upon your doors
Well, you drowned me in the fountain of life and I hated you
For living while I was dying, we were all just passing through
Well, I�m going down, three cheers for Doctor Bogenbroom
Well, I�m on my way, three cheers for Doctor Bogenbroom

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Tip-toes in silence round my bed
And quiets the raindrops overhead

With her everlasting smile
She stills my fever for a while
Oh, nursie dear
I'm glad you're here
To brush away my pain