Artist: Jethro Tull Album: Stand Up {1969}

My first and last time with you and we had some fun
Went walking through the trees, yeah, and I kissed you once
Oh, I want to see you soon, but I wonder how
It was a new day yesterday, but it's an old day now

Spent a long time looking for a game to play
My luck should be so bad now to turn out this way
I had to leave today just when I thought I'd found you
It was a new day yesterday, but it's an old day now

Spent a long time looking for a game to play
My luck should be so bad now to turn out this way
I had to leave today just when I thought I'd found you
It was a new day yesterday, it was a new day yesterday
It was a new day yesterday, but it's an old day now

Bright city woman walking down Leicester Square everyday
Gonna get a piece of my mind
You think you're not a piece of my kind
Everywhere the people looking
Why don't you get up and sing

Bright city woman where did you learn all the things you say
You listen to the newsmen on T.V.
You may fool yourself but you don't fool me
I'll see you in another place, another time
You may be someone's, but you won't be mine

INSTRUMENTAL

My telephone wakes me in the morning
Have to get up to answer the call
So, I think I'll go back to the family
Where no one can ring me at all
Living this life has its problems
So, I think that I'll give it a break
Oh, I'm going back to the family
Cos I've had about all I can take

Master's in the counting house counting all his money
Sister's sitting by the mirror, she thinks her hair looks funny
And here am I thinking to myself, just wondering what things to do

I think I enjoyed all my problems
Where I did not get nothing for free
Oh, I'm going back to the family
Doing nothing is bothering me
I'll get a train back to the city
That soft life was getting me down
There's more fun away from the family
Get some action when I pull into town

Everything I do is wrong, what the hell was I thinking
Phone keeps ringing all day long, I got no time for thinking
And every day has the same old way of giving me too much to do

Took a sad song of one sweet evening
I smiled and quickly turned away
It's not easy singing sad songs
But still the easiest way I have to say
So, when you look into the sun
See the things we haven't done
Oh, was it better then to run
Than spend the summer crying
Now summer cannot come anyway

I had waited for time to change her
The only change that came was over me
She pretended not to want love
I hope she was only fooling me
So, when you look into the sun
Look for the pleasures nearly won
Or was it better then to run
Than to spend the summer singing
And summer could have come in a day

So, if you hear my sad song singing
Remember who and what you nearly had
It's not easy singing sad songs
When you can sing the song to make me glad
So, when you look into the sun
And see the words you could have sung
It's not too late, only begun
We can still make summer
Yes, summer always comes anyway

So, when you look into the sun
And see the words you could have sung
It's not too late, only begun
Look into the sun

Nothing is easy, though time gets you worrying, my friend, it's okay
Just take your life easy and stop all that hurrying, be happy my way
When tension starts mounting and you've lost count of the pennies you've missed
Just try hard and see why they're not worrying me, they're last on my list
Nothing's easy

Nothing is easy, you'll find that the squeeze won't turn out so bad
Your fingers may freeze, worse things happen at sea, there's good times to be had
So, if you're alone and you're down to the bone just give us a play
You'll smile in a while and discover that I'll get you happy my way
Nothing's easy

Don't want to be a fat man
People would think that I was just good fun, yeah
Would rather be a thin man
I am so glad to go on being one, yeah
Too much to carry around with you
No chance of finding a woman who
Will love you in the morning and all the night time too, woo

Don't want to be a fat man
Have not the patience to ignore all that, yeah
Hate to admit to myself
Half of my problems came from being fat
Won't waste my time feeling sorry for him
I see the other side through being thin
Roll us both down a mountain and I'm sure the fat man'd win, woo

Whenever I get to feel this way
Try to find new words to say
I think about the bad old days we used to know
Nights of winter turn me cold
Fears of dying, getting old
We ran the race, the race was won by running slowly
Could be soon we'll cease to sound
Slowly upstairs, faster down
Then to revisit stony grounds we used to know
Remembering mornings, shillings spent
Made no sense to leave the bed
The bad old days they came and went, giving way to fruitful years

Saving up the birds in hand
While in the bush the others land
Take what we can before the man says it's time to go
Each to his own way I'll go mine
Best of luck with what you find
But for your own sake remember times we used to know

What a sight for my eyes to see you in sleep
Could it stop the sunrise, hearing you weep
You're not seen, you're not heard
But I stand by my word
Came a thousand miles just to catch you while you're smiling

What a day for laughter and walking at night
Me following after, your hand holding tight
And the memory stays clear
With the song that you hear
If I can but make the words awake the feeling

What a reason for waiting and dreaming of dreams
So, here's hoping you've faith in impossible schemes
That are born in the sigh
Of the wind blowing by
While the dimming light brings the end to a night of loving

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 wrong
And for them here's a song

Did you hear baby come back and tell you the things he's seen
Did it surprise you being picked up at eight in a limousine
Doing the things he's accustomed to do
Which at one time it seemed like a dream, now it's true
And unknowing you made
It all happen this way

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 wrong
And for them here's a song