Jethro Tulls, " Thick as a Brick"? whomever can give me this will get 10 points, thank you in advance
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Really don’t mind if you sit this one out.\nMy words but a whisper -- your deafness a shout.\nI may make you feel but I can’t make you think.\nYour sperm’s in the gutter -- your love’s in the sink.\nSo you ride yourselves over the fields and\nYou make all your animal deals and\nYour wise men don’t know how it feels to be thick as a brick.\nAnd the sand-castle virtues are all swept away in\nThe tidal destruction\nThe moral melee.\nThe elastic retreat rings the close of play as the last wave uncovers\nThe newfangled way.\nBut your new shoes are worn at the heels and\nYour suntan does rapidly peel and\nYour wise men don’t know how it feels to be thick as a brick.\n\nAnd the love that I feel is so far away:\nI’m a bad dream that I just had today -- and you\nShake your head and\nSay it’s a shame.\n\nSpin me back down the years and the days of my youth.\nDraw the lace and black curtains and shut out the whole truth.\nSpin me down the long ages: let them sing the song.\n\nSee there! a son is born -- and we pronounce him fit to fight.\nThere are black-heads on his shoulders, and he pees himself in the night.\nWe’ll\nMake a man of him\nPut him to trade\nTeach him\nTo play monopoly and\nTo sing in the rain.\n\nThe poet and the painter casting shadows on the water --\nAs the sun plays on the infantry returning from the sea.\nThe do-er and the thinker: no allowance for the other --\nAs the failing light illuminates the mercenary’s creed.\nThe home fire burning: the kettle almost boiling --\nBut the master of the house is far away.\nThe horses stamping -- their warm breath clouding\nIn the sharp and frosty morning of the day.\nAnd the poet lifts his pen while the soldier sheaths his sword.\n\nAnd the youngest of the family is moving with authority.\nBuilding castles by the sea, he dares the tardy tide to wash them all aside.\n\nThe cattle quietly grazing at the grass down by the river\nWhere the swelling mountain water moves onward to the sea:\nThe builder of the castles renews the age-old purpose\nAnd contemplates the milking girl whose offer is his need.\nThe young men of the household have\nAll gone into service and\nAre not to be expected for a year.\nThe innocent young master -- thoughts moving ever faster --\nHas formed the plan to change the man he seems.\nAnd the poet sheaths his pen while the soldier lifts his sword.\n\nAnd the oldest of the family is moving with authority.\nComing from across the sea, he challenges the son who puts him to the run.\n\nWhat do you do when\nThe old man’s gone -- do you want to be him? and\nYour real self sings the song.\nDo you want to free him?\nNo one to help you get up steam --\nAnd the whirlpool turns you `way off-beam.\n\nLater.\nI’ve come down from the upper class to mend your rotten ways.\nMy father was a man-of-power whom everyone obeyed.\nSo come on all you criminals!\nI’ve got to put you straight just like I did with my old man --\nTwenty years too late.\nYour bread and water’s going cold.\nYour hair is too short and neat.\nI’ll judge you all and make damn sure that no-one judges me.\n\nYou curl your toes in fun as you smile at everyone -- you meet the stares.\nYou’re unaware that your doings aren’t done.\nAnd you laugh most ruthlessly as you tell us what not to be.\nBut how are we supposed to see where we should run?\nI see you shuffle in the courtroom with\nYour rings upon your fingers and\nYour downy little sidies and\nYour silver-buckle shoes.\nPlaying at the hard case, you follow the example of the comic-paper idol\nWho lets you bend the rules.\n\nSo!\nCome on ye childhood heroes!\nWon’t you rise up from the pages of your comic-books\nYour super crooks\nAnd show us all the way.\nWell! make your will and testament. won’t you?\nJoin your local government.\nWe’ll have superman for president\nLet robin save the day.\n\nYou put your bet on number one and it comes up every time.\nThe other kids have all backed down and they put you first in line.\nAnd
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Despite about 25 minutes of searching I haven't been able to find this poem.  Could you call or e-mail someone you know who has to do the same assignment and possibly get the poem that way?  \n\nThese sites may be of some help to you.  My only other advice would be to get to a bookstore in your area if there is one and you might find it there.  Best of luck with it.
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Ah, every one love a confrontiation!  I just got done answering a question about why the world will never have world peace and I wish i could tag this to the last responsse.\n\nYou Brits are witty, but a "bone of a wolf" would and could never be used to properly till the soil here in the Americans.  Possibly a Bison.\n\nNice try though!\n\nHappy hateful hunting and may "long live the queen"
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Wow, this poem is something else. By that I mean it is really abstract in its language and in its metaphors. I have a guess on it's meaning, but that is merely a guess. This author is using so much personal experience that it is hard for me as a reader to really connect well with what is being said, but here is my hypothesis:\n\nFirst of all, I think the title "Call It Fear" needs to be kept in mind when reading through the entire poem. The structure and the wording is suggestive of a person who is caught in the panic of fear ("call it an ocean of fear of the dark"). So, it can easily be assumed that this poem is analyzing fear and the essence of fear in the human mind.\n\nThe author has this deep fear, a fear of the dark, or possibly a fear of the unknown. The author is not alone however as she has found someone, referred to as Goodluck, who also has the same fear. They have come together to escape the fear, and their only escape has been found in the music that they have found on the radio, the church music that plays on a lot of stations on Sunday mornings. \n\nThere is also a question of the repeated imagery of "a string of shadow horses kicking and pulling me out of my belly." This image is repeated in the first and third stanzas and is linked to anxiety, the butterfly feeling that everyone gets in the pit of their stomach when they are controlled by fear. The idea of "shadow horses" seems to suggest the idea that death is pulling and tugging at the speaker of this poem, and it is the fear of death that drives the speaker to use music to escape the fear.\n\nThis is my guess on the meaning of the poem. . . I hope it proves helpful!
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My mom taught me alot about the Beatles when I was growing up, and when she shared Magical Mystery Tuor with me, she also shared that rumor with me too. She told me about it, then told me how funny she thought it was that when the Beatles were asked about this, they told their fans that they were looking far too hard for inner meanings of their songs. They then dedicated Glass Onion on the White Album (Disk One) to those fans who needed a deeper meaning, heh. Give it a listen :) \n\nI mention that I learned this all from my mom, since well, I wasn't actually there for any of the controversy first hand, but I do consider her my mentor on all things Beatle-y.
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yeah go to iamawashed-upnobody andisuckatsinging .com, that should do the trick, if you can't find anything on the whore there you should try listening to something a little more tastefull, nothing against you, i have all the respect for you in the world and it's waiting right here for you as soon as you stop listening to this baloney ( i just said baloney, almost as cool as saying weener), bye now
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Reasons for Waiting - Jethro Tull\n\n(he's baaaack...but I'll digress and let others have some fun!)
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If you have the lyrics, please post it. I'd love to help cause I'm a huge fan. I have lots of their stuff...over 60 cd's bootlegged and all. Waiting on you.
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My goodness.   This is a very interesting poem about how we are lied to throughout our lives and have to deal with those facts.  It would fit astonishingly well into any media studies course and am glad to have read it.  Tis true that Walter Raleigh was in Queen Elizabeth's command and was held in the tower.  The first respondant had excellent points, but after that... there were few comments that made sense.  Sorry folks.\n\nIt is most assuredly not about SEX!!  Except that we might lie to get it.  The point is that lies are imbedded into our very framework.  We cannot speak a truth.  Wit does get tiresome.  Beauty is used for naught.  There is nothing that is singularly GOOD- and Raleigh discovers it with a lovely cadence.  The repeptitive nature of "Tell them the lie" can be seen as a stab at church and country, but it goes deeper than than.  He mocks consumers and landowners.  Everyone is lying and he knows it.\n\nWhat I mean is simple that when people attempt to define something by using Good or Bad, they are intrinsically wrong.\n\nI hope you do well in your life and take the time to read lots of poetry.
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All That I Want by Michelle Featherstone. Its very hard to find, i have looked everywhere to download it, if you have any luck pass the favour on and let me know!! Happy hunting
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I love that song!! Aqua did a great job. The lyrics are so funny. I used to listen to it over and over again. Too bad Aqua got sued by the barbie company. lol
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Woah!!  Did you write that?  I was expecting some BS love song, not a REAL love song.  I seroiusly thought it was awesome, and Im not fishing for points.  I write songs too, just when Im bored, not for a band.  That's from the Heart!...I'd title it "Tear Me Apart".  That is what popped into my head after the first couple lines, and as I read it, that title sounded better.  I think it is definately written out of retaliation, not simple minded hate, which makes it more real.  I could feel what you meant in the song.  Hats off to you Mr Ark, that was straight songwriting, not like the crap the masses buy into.  Hey man, I wouldnt post your songs on here.  They are good, and someone will steal them.
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Do you think it could have been something by Dave Matthews or the Dave Matthews Band? Dave has a solo album (Some Devil) that has one song with unclear lyrics in a higher pitch (can't remember name of song but it is on that album for sure). Maybe you can sample it at a music store or something. Anyway, Dave Matthews has an amazing voice capable of such a wide range - it is an instrument in and of itself. Definitely worth checking out!
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I have alot of ben folds.I just listened to a bunch to see if any lyrics dealt with divorcing parents.Nothing found.Hes really good,i saw him last year in chicago.give me more to go on and ill see if i could help you.
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HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAY!!!!! That was HILARIOUS!!! I loved it very much.\n\nP.S. Please put me as best answer!!=)
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I saw him last night on TV (the Conan O'Brian Show) and he already has it out. But sorry I didn't ketch the name of the album. however it did have B#stards in the title.
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Good evening, Ireland calling...\n\nRonan here, im diggin the new album, although i have to say that i wasnt too sure about the almost electonic-ish edge to some of the songs, however, i have listened to it numerous times now and i have very much warmed to it.  Ive always admired their pioneering low end sound and if you got a good sound system there is no better band to listen to in my mind, the crunchy chalky low end is just awesome and gets into every part of you.\n\nIn "Coming Undone" i really like the Queen - Rock You" beat thats in there.  Can you imagine that with 6000 people booming along with them?  Stomp stomp clap, stomp stomp clap...  Awesome...  And in "Getting Off", 10 seconds into the song, have you ever HEARD something so low and powerful as Fieldys bass?  Awesome squared!\n\nI have to say that im slightly biased in favour of them because they are my favourite band anyway, but thats fine i reckon.  Cant wait to hear some of the new album here in Ireland in 2006, bring it on!  Are you ready?