Thick as a Brick (Live) [2004 Remaster] (Live; 2004 Remaster)

Thick as a Brick (Live|2004 Remaster) - Jethro Tull

Really don't mind if you sit this one out

My words but a whisper

His deafness a shout

I may make you feel but I can't make you think

Your sperm's in the gutter

Your love's in the sink

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

And the sand castle virtues are all swept away

In the tidal destruction

The moral melee

The elastic retreat rings the close of play

As the last wave uncovers the newfangled way

But your new shoes are worn at the heels

And your suntan does rapidly peel

And your wise men don't know how it feels

To be thick as a brick

And the love that I feel is so far away

I'm a bad dream that I just had today

And you shake your head

And say that it's a shame

See there A son is born

And we pronounce him fit to fight

There are black heads on his shoulders

And he pees himself in the night

We'll make a man of him

Put him to trade

Teach him

To play Monopoly and

To sing in the rain

He Poet and the painter castin' shadows

On the water

As the sun plays on the infantry

Returnin' from the sea

The doer and the thinker

No allowance for the other

As the failin' light illuminates the mercenary's creed

He home fire burnin' the kettle almost boilin'

But the master of the house is far away

The horses stampin' their warm breath cloudin'

In the sharp and frosty morning of the day

And the poet lifts his pen

While the soldier sheaths his sword

And the youngest of the family is

Movin' with authority

Building castles by the sea

He dares the tardy tide to wash them all aside

I come down the run to play the men your mountains

Well lay

I funnin' with the man to pull love everyone

Well lay