Jethro Tull

With You There to Help Me [Beat-Club 1970-1971]

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With You There to Help Me [Beat-Club 1970-1971] Lyrics

In days of peace
Sweet smelling summer nights
Of wine and song;
Dusty pavements burning feet.
Why am I crying, I want to know.
How can I smile and make it right?
For sixty days and eighty nights
And not give in and lose the fight.

I'm going back to the ones that I know,
With whom I can be what I want to be.
Just one week for the feeling to go
And with you there to help me
Then it probably will.

I won't go down
Acting the same old play.
Give sixty days for just one night.
Don't think I'd make it: but then I might.

I'm going back to the ones that I know,
With whom I can be what I want to be.
Just one week for the feeling to go
And with you there to help me
Then it probably will.

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songmeanings On Feb 06, 2012

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by mydreamquest

4y ago

Musically this song has such a deep autumnal tonality that is odd that the song takes place in the summer, although with the “80 days reference”, we could be placing the narrator sonewhere around late August.\n\nMaybe the lyric is about being down that the long days are retreating into the jaws of an impatient autumn waiting in line to destroy the narrator’s will?\n\nSo the narrator resolves this dilemma by leaning on one particular close friend to help lesson the down mood.

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