Velvet Green (2003 Remaster)
Jethro Tull
6:03Wond'ring aloud How we feel today Last night sipped the sunset My hands in her hair We are our own saviours As we start both our hearts beating life Into each other Wond'ring aloud Will the years treat us well? As she floats in the kitchen I'm tasting the smell (yes) Of toast as the butter runs Then she comes, spilling crumbs on the bed And I shake my head And later I'm out where the leaves were shouting for more And giving himself completely, she did long before And it's only the giving that makes you what you are Wond'ring aloud will a son one day be born To share in our infancy In the child's path we've worn In the aging seclusion of this earth that our birth did surprise We'll open his eyes There's the stillness of death on a deathly unliving sea And the motor car magical world long since ceased to be When the Eve-bitten apple returned to destroy the tree Incestuous ancestry's charabanc ride Spawning new millions throws the world on its side Supporting their far-flung illusion, the national curse And those with no sandwiches please get off the bus The excrement bubbles The century's slime decays And the brainwashing government lackeys Would have us say It's under control and we'll soon be on our way To a grand year for babies and quiz panel games Of the hot hungry millions you'll be sure to remain The natural resources are dwindling and no one grows old And those with no homes to go to, please dig yourself holes We wandered through quiet lands, felt the first breath of snow Searched for the last pigeon, slate grey I've been told Stumbled on a daffodil which she crushed in the rush, heard it sigh And left it to die At once felt remorse and were touched by the loss of our own Held its poor broken head in her hands Dropped soft tears in the snow And it's only the taking that makes you what you are Wond'ring aloud will a son one day be born To share in our infancy In the child's path we've worn In the aging seclusion of this earth that our birth did surprise We'll open his eyes