JETHRO TULL - Wond'ring Again lyrics

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There's the stillness of death on a deathly unliving sea,<br>And the motor car magical world long since ceased to be,<br>When the eve-bitten apple returned to destroy the tree.<br><br>Incestuous ancestry's charabanc ride,<br>Spawning new millions throws the world on it's side.<br>Supporting their far-flung illusion, the national curse,<br>And those with no sandwiches please get off the bus.<br><br>The excrement bubbles,<br>The century's slime decays<br>And the brainwashing government lackeys<br>Would have us say<br>It's under control and we'll soon be on our way<br>To a grand year for babies and quiz panel games<br>Of the hot hungry millions you'll be sure to remain.<br><br>The natural resources are dwindling and no one grows old,<br>And those with no homes to go to, please dig yourself holes.<br><br>We wandered through quiet lands, felt the first breath of snow.<br>Searched for the last pigeon, slate grey I've been told.<br>Stumbled on a daffodil which she crushed in the rush, heard it sigh,<br>And left it to die.<br>At once felt remorse and were touched by the loss of our own,<br>Held it's poor broken head in her hands,<br>Dropped soft tears in the snow,<br>And it's only the taking that makes you what you are.<br><br>Wond'ring aloud will a son one day be born<br>To share in our infancy<br>In the child's path we've worn.<br>In the aging seclusion of this earth that our birth did surprise<br>We'll open his eyes.