Thick as a Brick (Pt. 2) [1997 Remaster] - Jethro Tull.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Ian Anderson
[00:52.276] See there! A man born - and we pronounce him fit for peace
[00:59.890] There's a load lifted from his shoulders with the discovery of his disease
[01:09.522] We'll take the child from him put it to the test
[01:16.205] Teach it to be a wise man how to fool the rest
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[04:19.784] In the clear white circles of morning wonder
[04:24.081] I take my place with the lord of the hills
[04:28.200] And the blue-eyed soldiers stand slightly discoloured
[04:32.781] In neat little rows sporting canvas frills
[04:48.292] With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention
[04:52.790] While queueing for sarnies at the office canteen
[04:57.006] Saying -- how's your granny and
[04:59.461] Good old Ernie: he coughed up a tenner on a premium bond win
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[06:00.272] The legends worded in the ancient tribal hymn lie cradled in the seagull's call
[06:21.747] And all the promises they made are ground beneath the sadist's fall
[06:51.834] The poet and the wise man stand behind the gun, behind the gun
[07:10.628] And signal for the crack of dawn. Light the sun. Light the sun
[07:26.720] Do you believe in the day?
[07:45.302] Do you? Believe in the day
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[08:41.918] The Dawn Creation of the Kings has begun
[08:59.333] Soft Venus lonely maiden brings the ageless one
[09:16.388] Do you believe? Believe in the day
[09:33.931] Do you believe in the day?
[09:52.309] The fading hero has returned to the night
[10:09.410] And fully pregnant with the day
[10:16.660] Wise men endorse the poet's sight
[10:26.280] Do you believe in the day?
[10:43.748] Do you? Believe in the day
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[13:16.394] Let me tell you the tales of your life
[13:20.250] Of your love and the cut of the knife
[13:24.271] The tireless oppression the wisdom instilled
[13:27.771] The desire to kill or be killed
[13:34.751] Let me sing of the losers who lie in the street as the last bus goes by
[13:42.692] The pavements are empty: the gutters run red - while the fool toasts his god in the sky
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[14:55.090] So come all ye young men who are building castles!
[14:58.719] Kindly state the time of the year
[15:02.663] And join your voices in a hellish chorus
[15:05.994] Mark the precise nature of your fear
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[16:14.798] Let me help you to pick up your dead
[16:18.389] As the sins of the father are fed
[16:22.205] With the blood of the fools and
[16:24.126] The thoughts of the wise
[16:25.862] And from the pan under your bed
[16:32.905] Let me make you a present of song
[16:36.637] As the wise man breaks wind and is gone
[16:40.277] While the fool with the hour-glass is cooking his goose
[16:43.679] And the nursery rhyme winds along
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[17:21.358] So! Come all ye young men who are building castles!
[17:25.046] Kindly state the time of the year
[17:28.661] And join your voices in a hellish chorus
[17:32.421] Mark the precise nature of your fear
[17:35.862] See! The summer lightning casts its bolts upon you
[17:39.367] And the hour of judgement draweth near
[17:42.983] Would you be the fool
[17:44.525] Stood in his suit of armour
[17:46.429] Or the wiser man who rushes clear
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[18:16.689] So! Come on ye childhood heroes!
[18:19.265] Won't your rise up from the pages
[18:21.785] Of your comic-books your super-crooks
[18:24.604] And show us all the way
[18:27.249] Well! Make your will and testament
[18:29.761] Won't you? Join your local government
[18:32.458] We'll have Superman for president
[18:35.185] Let Robin save the day
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[19:01.553] So! Where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday?
[19:06.610] And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you through?
[19:11.874] They're all resting down in Cornwall -
[19:14.441] Writing up their memoirs for a paper-back edition of the Boy Scout Manual
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[20:42.939] So you ride yourselves over the fields
[20:47.750] And you make all your animal deals
[20:52.957] And your wise men don't know how it feels
[21:01.781] To be thick as a brick