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One Brown Mouse Lyrics
Smile your little smile --- take some tea with me awhile.
Brush away that black cloud from your shoulder.
Twitch your whiskers. Feel that you're really real.
Another tea-time --- another day older.
Puff warm breath on your tiny hands.
You wish you were a man
who every day can turn another page.
Behind your glass you sit and look
at my ever-open book ---
One brown mouse sitting in a cage.
Do you wonder if I really care for you ---
Am I just the company you keep ---
Which one of us exercises on the old treadmill ---
Who hides his head, pretending to sleep?
Smile your little smile --- take some tea with me awhile.
And every day we'll turn another page.
Behind our glass we'll sit and look
at our ever-open book ---
One brown mouse sitting in a cage.
Brush away that black cloud from your shoulder.
Twitch your whiskers. Feel that you're really real.
Another tea-time --- another day older.
You wish you were a man
who every day can turn another page.
Behind your glass you sit and look
at my ever-open book ---
One brown mouse sitting in a cage.
Am I just the company you keep ---
Which one of us exercises on the old treadmill ---
Who hides his head, pretending to sleep?
And every day we'll turn another page.
Behind our glass we'll sit and look
at our ever-open book ---
One brown mouse sitting in a cage.
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Twitch your whiskers. Feel that you're really real: the gesture a wise man makes while pondering the universe, stroking his beard or mustache.
I love the dual meanings Jethro Tull employs. I think their stuff is great when you try to interpret a line and you can't decide whether they are for the idea in the line or against it. "Think as a Brick" is chock full of them. But this song has a good one two:
Which one of us exercises on the old treadmill- Who hides his head, pretending to sleep?
Makes me wonder, am I the one on the old treadmill or am I the one who hides his head?
Also like a wise man, he views the constructs of this world as a cage.
Great comment. I heard Ian mention that he was more concerned with they way words sound than their meaning together.
Great comment. I heard Ian mention that he was more concerned with they way words sound than their meaning together.
I think he was being modest ...
I think he was being modest ...