Silver River Turning

Silver River Turning - Jethro Tull

Written by：Ian Anderson

I walked down

That boulder road

Through a child's eye saw places where I used to go

Where I crawled barefoot

With a fishing pole

To the rock that overlooked that steelhead hole

But it's true

Silver river turning blue

It was a small town

In a smaller world

Just a black dot on an old map with it's edges curled

Where they built their industries

On the edge of town

Leaching chemicals from underground

Now it's true

That silver river turning blue

Just got a late reaction

Face reality and stare it down

Sometimes it's harder hanging on

Much easier to look around

But I need that job

Well this place no city

We're just small players here

Like a million other heroes drinking poor man's beer

We know what's right

We're just living it wrong

But there's no easy answer in the green man's song

What do you do

When your river's turning blue

I walked down

That boulder road

Through a child's eye saw places where I used to go

Where I crawled barefoot

With a fishing pole

To the rock that overlooked that steelhead hole

But it's true

Silver river turning blue

Just got a late reaction

Face reality and stare it down

Sometimes it's harder hanging on

Much easier to look around

But I need that job