JETHRO TULL - The End lyrics
rate meWe sleep by the ever-bright hole in the door / eat in the corner / talk to the<br>Floor -- cheating the spiders who come to say ``please'',<br>(politely).<br>They bend at the knees.<br>Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs.<br>Old gentlemen talk / of when they were young / of ladies<br>Lost and erring sons.<br>Lace-covered dandies revel (with friends) pure as the truth --<br>Tied at both ends.<br>Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs.<br>Scented cathedral -- spire pointed down.<br>We pray for souls in kentish town.<br>A delicate hush -- the gods / floating by / wishing us well --<br>Pie in the sky.<br>God of ages / lord of time -- mine is the right to be wrong.<br>Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs.<br>Jack rabbit mister spawn a new breed of love-hungry pilgrims<br>(no bodies to feed).<br>Show me a good man.<br>I'll show you the door.<br>The last hymn is sung and the devil cries ``more.''<br>Well, I'm all for leaving and that being done, I've put in a request<br>To take up my turn in that forsaken paradise that calls itself ``hell'' --<br>Where no-one has nothing and nothing is<br>Well meaning fool, pick up thy bed and rise up from your gloom smiling.<br>Give me your hate and do as the loving heathen do.<br>Colors I've none -- dark or light, red, white or blue.<br>Cold is my touch (freezing).<br>Summoned by name -- I am the overseer over you.<br>Given this command to watch o'er our miserable sphere.<br>Fallen from grace / called on to bring sun or rain.<br>Occasional corn from my oversight grew.<br>Fell with mine angels from a far better place, offering services for<br>The saving of face.<br>Now you're here, you may as well admire all whom living has retired<br>From the benign reconciliation.<br>Legends were born surrounding mysterious lights seen in the sky<br>(flashing).<br>I just / lit a fag then / took my leave in the blink of an eye.<br>Passionate play -- join round the maypole in dance (primitive<br>Rite) (wrongly).<br>Summoned by name / I am the overseer / over you.<br>Flee the icy lucifer.<br>Oh he's an awful fellow!<br>What a mistake!<br>I didn't take a feather from his pillow.<br>Here's the everlasting rub: neither am I good or bad.<br>I'd give up my halo for a horn and the horn for the hat<br>I once had.<br>I'm only breathing.<br>There's life on my ceiling.<br>The flies there are sleeping quietly.<br>Twist my right arm in the dark.<br>I would give two or three for one of those days that never made<br>Impressions on the old score.<br>I would gladly be a dog barking up the wrong tree.<br>Everyone's saved -- we're in the grave.<br>See you there for afternoon tea.<br>Time for awaking -- the tea lady's / making a brew-up and / baking<br>New bread.<br>Pick me up at half past none -- there's / not a moment to lose. there<br>Is / the train on which I came.<br>On the platform are my old shoes.<br>Station master rings his bell.<br>Whistles blow and flags wave.<br>A little of what you fancy does you good (or so it should).<br>I thank everybody for making me welcome.<br>I'd stay but my wings have just dropped off.<br>Hail!<br>Son of kings / make the ever-dying sign / cross your fingers in the<br>Sky for those about to be.<br>There am I waiting along the sand.<br>Cast your sweet spell upon the land and sea.<br>Magus perde, take your hand from off the chain.<br>Loose a wish to still / the rain / the storm about to be.<br>Here am I (voyager into life).<br>Tough are the soles that tread the knife's edge.<br>Break the circle / stretch the line / call upon the devil.<br>Bring / the gods / the gods' own fire.<br>In the conflict revel.<br>The passengers / upon the ferry crossing / waiting to be born / renew the<br>Pledge of life's long song / rise to the reveille horn.<br>Animals / queueing at the gate that stands upon the shore / breathe the<br>Ever-burning fire that guards the ever-door.<br>Man / son of man / buy the flame of ever-life (yours to breathe and<br>Breath the pain of living): living be!<br>Here am i!<br>Roll the stone away from the dark into ever-day.<br>There was a rush / along the fulham road / into the ever-passion play.
