A New Day Yesterday
My first and last time with you
and we had some
fun
wenT walking through the trees, yeah!
And then I kissed you
once
Oh I want to see you soon
but I wonder how
It was a new day
yesterday
but it's an old day now
Spent a long time looking
for a
game to play
My luck should be so bad now
to turn out this way
Oh I
had to leave today
just when I thought I'd found you
It was a new day
yesterday
But it's an old day now
Jeffrey Goes To Leicester
Square
Bright city woman
walking down Leicester Square
everyday
Gonna get a piece of my mind
You think you're not a piece of my
kind
Ev'rywhere the people looking
Why don't you get up and
sing?
Bright city woman
where did you learn all the things you
say?
You listen to the newsmen on TV
You may fool yourself but you don't
fool me
I'll see you in another place, another time
You may be someone's,
but you won't be mine
Bouree (Instrumental)
Back To The Family
My telephone wakes me in the morning -
have to get up to
answer the call
So I think I'll go back to the family
where no one can ring me
at all
Living this life has its problems
so I think that I'll give it a
break
Oh, I'm going back to the family
`cos I've had about all I can
take
Master's in the counting house
counting all his money
Sister's
sitting by the mirror -
she thinks her hair looks funny
And here am I
thinking to myself
just wond'ring what things to do
I think I enjoyed all
my problems
Where I did not get nothing for free
Oh, I'm going back to the
family -
doing nothing is bothering me
I'll get a train back to the
city
that soft life is getting me down
There's more fun away from the
family
get some action when I pull into town
Everything I do is
wrong,
what the hell was I thinking?
Phone keeps ringing all day long
I
got no time for thinking
And every day has the same old way
of giving me
too much to do
Look Into The Sun
Took a sad song of one
sweet evening
I smiled and quickly turned away
It's not easy singing sad
songs
but still the easiest way I have to say
So when you look into the
sun
and see the things we haven't done -
oh was it better then to run
than
to spend the summer crying
Now summer cannot come anyway
I had
waited for time to change her
The only change that came was over me
She
pretended not to want love -
I hope she was only fooling me
So when you
look into the sun
look for the pleasures nearly won
Or was it better then to
run
than to spend the summer singing
And summer could have come in a
day
So if you hear my sad song singing
remember who and what you
nearly had
It's not easy singing sad songs
when you can sing the song to
make me glad
So when you look into the sun
and see the words you could
have sung:
It's not too late, only begun,
we can still make summer
Yes,
summer always comes anyway
So when you look into the sun
and see
the words you could have sung:
It's not too late, only begun
Look into the
sun
Nothing Is Easy
Nothing is easy
Though time gets
you worrying
my friend, it's o k
Just take your life easy
and stop all that
hurrying,
be happy my way
When tension starts mounting
and
you've lost count
of the pennies you've missed,
just try hard and see why
they're not worrying me,
they're last on my list
Nothing's
easy
Nothing is easy, you'll find
that the squeeze won't turn out so
bad
Your fingers may freeze, worse things happen at sea,
there's good times
to be had
So if you're alone and you're down to the bone,
just give us a
play
You'll smile in a while and discover
that I'll get you happy my way
-
nothing's easy
Fat Man
Don't want to be a fat
man,
people would think that I was
just good fun
Would rather be a thin
man,
I am so glad to go on being one
Too much to carry around with
you,
no chance of finding a woman who
will love you in the morning and all
the night time too
Don't want to be a fat man,
have not the patience to
ignore all that
Hate to admit to myself half of my problems
came from being
fat
Won't waste my time feeling sorry for him,
I seen the other side to being
thin
Roll us both down a mountain
and I'm sure the fat man would
win
We Used To Know
Whenever I get to feel this
way,
try to find new words to say,
I think about the bad old days
we used
to know
Nights of winter turn me cold -
fears of dying, getting
old
We ran the race and the race was won
by running slowly
Could
be soon we'll cease to sound,
slowly upstairs, faster down
Then to revisit
stony grounds,
we used to know
Remembering mornings, shillings
spent,
made no sense to leave the bed
The bad old days they came and
went
giving way to fruitful years
Saving up the birds in hand
while
in the bush the others land
Take what we can before the man
says it's time to
go
Each to his own way I'll go mine
Best of luck in what you
find
But for your own sake remember times
we used to
know
Reasons For Waiting
What a sight for my eyes
to
see you in sleep
Could it stop the sun rise
hearing you weep?
You're not
seen, you're not heard
but I stand by my word
Came a thousand
miles
just to catch you while you're smiling
What a day for
laughter
and walking at night
Me following after, your hand holding
tight
And the memory stays clear with the song that you hear
If I can but
make
the words awake the feeling
What a reason for waiting
and
dreaming of dreams
So here's hoping you've faith in impossible
schemes,
that are born in the sigh of the wind blowing by
while the dimming
light brings the end to a night of loving
For A Thousand Mothers
Did you hear mother -
saying I'm wrong but I know I'm
right
Did you hear father?
Calling my name into the night
Saying I'll
never be what I am now
Telling me I'll never find what I've already found
It
was they who were wrong,
and for them here's a song
Did you hear
baby -
come back and tell you the things he's seen
Did it surprise you
to
be picked up at eight in a limousine?
Doing the things he's accustomed to
do
Which at one time it seemed like a dream
now it's true
And
unknowing
you made it all happen this way
Did you hear mother
-
saying I'm wrong but I know I'm right
Did you hear father?
Calling my
name into the night
Saying I'll never be what I am now
Telling me I'll never
find what I've already found
It was they who were wrong
and for them here's
a song
BONUS TRACKS:
Living In The Past (see Living In The Past)
Driving Song (see Living In The Past)
Sweet Dream (see Living In The Past)
17 (see 20 Years Of Jethro Tull)
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