| Jethro Tull – Locomotive Breath Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Yea, this song is about death and losing and loneliness and all the rest of it. You don't want to be reminded of that so much when it's breaking through your life and you have to deal with some aspect of it all the time. But that gets old too, and you begin to find *some* way of coping, be it based on reality or BS or a mixture of the two. "You have to die before you die, there is no time after." -- 'Til We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis | |
| Jethro Tull – Wond'ring Aloud Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"It's only the giving..." & "you become what you do" (Full Metal Jacket?) -- two stark, ineluctable bits of wisdom that shape people continually whether they come to realize it or not. But everyone should have the glory of a we, whether for a lifetime or just one night... |
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| Jethro Tull – Up To Me Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well, when I heart it for the first time when it was new, it was one of the ones that spoke to me, though I couldn't make out all the things it said. One thing I liked was the attention grabbing flute work contrasting to the plain speaking in the lines (even when the a phrase was a biblical one like 'comes to pass'). Been pondering Anomaly57 thoughts about how the speaker was God. Maybe, though the use of "we" at first, and the "Now Im a common working man..." stanza belies it. No, I think the singer is just a young man beginning to realize how, unlike when he was younger, it is virtually all up to him, even the things that aren't -- to fascinate a girl, to accidently damage his cousin's glasses in a row, to wear his pants the way he likes, and if he has had a few and doesn't like your face, to try and change it. He definetly likes it all being up to him. |
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