JETHRO TULL:   Stand Up

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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