[ti:Thick As A Brick (Side 2)] [ar:Jethro Tull] [al:Thick As A Brick] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.52]Thick As A Brick (Side 2) - Jethro Tull [00:52.70]See there a man is born [00:56.07]And we pronounce him fit for peace [01:00.08]There's a load lifted from his shoulders [01:03.79]With the discovery of his disease [01:09.75]We'll take a child from him [01:11.45]Put it to the test [01:16.34]Teach it to be a wise man [01:19.21]And how to fool the rest [03:07.17]We will be geared to the average rather than the exceptional [03:13.29]God is an overwhelming responsibility [03:32.70]We walked through the maternity ward [03:34.12]And saw 218 babies wearing nylons [03:52.25]It says here that cats are on the upgrade [03:54.18]Upgrade? [03:55.25]Hipgrave [03:58.33]Oh Mac [04:19.03]In the clear white circles of morning wonder [04:23.20]I take my place with the lord of the hills [04:27.28]And the blue-eyed soldiers stand slightly discoloured [04:31.69]In neat little rows sporting canvas frills [04:47.48]With their jock-straps pinching they slouch to attention [04:51.68]While queuing for sarnies at the office canteen [04:55.85]Saying:"How's your granny?" and good old Ernie [05:00.39]He coughed up a tenner on a premium bond win [05:59.40]The legends worded in the ancient tribal hymn [06:11.24]Lie cradled in the seagull's call [06:20.08]And all the promises they made [06:23.78]Are ground beneath the sadist's fall [06:50.36]The poet and the wise man stand [06:56.73]Behind the gun behind the gun [07:08.68]And signal for the crack of dawn [07:15.22]Light the sun light the sun [07:24.96]Do you believe in the day? [07:43.56]Do you believe in the day? [08:40.04]The Dawn Creation of the Kings [08:46.59]Has begun has begun [08:57.20]Soft Venus lonely maiden brings [09:04.17]The ageless one the ageless one [09:14.07]Do you believe in the day? [09:31.49]Do you believe in the day? [09:49.73]The fading hero has returned [09:56.68]To the night to the night [10:07.16]And fully pregnant with the day [10:13.81]Wise men endorse the poet's sight [10:23.85]Do you believe in the day? [10:41.05]Do you believe in the day? [13:13.05]Let me tell you the tales of your life [13:16.76]Of your love and the cut of the knife [13:20.69]The tireless oppression the wisdom instilled [13:24.11]The desire to kill or be killed [13:31.03]Well let me sing of the losers who lie [13:34.90]In the street as the last bus goes by [13:38.83]The pavements are empty: the gutters run red [13:41.73]While the fool toasts his god in the sky [14:51.05]So come all ye young men who are building castles [14:54.52]Kindly state the time of the year [14:58.45]And join your voices in a hellish chorus [15:01.78]Mark the precise nature of your fear [16:10.28]Let me help you to pick up your dead [16:13.96]As the sins of the fathers are fed [16:17.74]With the blood of the fools and the thoughts of the wise [16:21.31]And from the pan under your bed [16:28.19]Well let me make you a present of song [16:31.91]As the wise man breaks wind and is gone [16:35.62]While the fool with the hour-glass is cooking his goose [16:38.78]And the nursery rhyme winds along [17:16.53]So come all ye young men who are building castles [17:20.10]Kindly state the time of the year [17:23.91]And join your voices in the hellish chorus [17:27.17]Mark the precise nature of your fear [17:30.82]See the summer lightning casts its bolts upon you [17:34.26]And the hour of judgement draweth near [17:37.81]Would you be the fool stood in his suit of armour [17:41.34]Or the wiser man who rushes clear? [18:11.52]So come on ye childhood heroes [18:14.00]Won't you rise up from the pages [18:16.69]Of your comic-books your super crooks [18:19.49]And show us all the way [18:22.09]Well Make your will and testament [18:24.50]Won't you join your local government? [18:27.03]We'll have Superman for president [18:29.72]Let Robin save the day [18:56.04]So where the hell was Biggles [18:58.37]When you needed him last Saturday? [19:01.21]And where were all the sportsmen [19:03.80]Who always pulled you though? [19:06.24]They're all resting down in Cornwall [19:09.18]Writing up their memoirs [19:11.52]For a paper-back edition [19:14.12]Of the Boy Scout manual [20:36.63]So you ride yourselves over the fields [20:41.73]And you make all your animal deals [20:46.40]And your wise men don't know how it feels [20:55.30]To be thick as a brick