Thick as a Brick, side two
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fr_defenestrato[If you don't know this, you must learn.]
We will be geared to the average rather than the exceptional.
God is an overwhelming responsibility.
We walked through the maternity ward and saw 218 babies wearing nylons.
[unintelligible]
In the clear white circles of morning wonder I take my place with the lord of the hills, and the blue-eyed soldiers stand slightly discoloured in neat little rows sporting canvas frills. With their jock-straps pinching they slouch to attention whilst queueing for sarnies at the office canteen, saying 'How's your granny?' and 'Good old Ernie, he coughed up a tenner on a premium bond win!'
The legends worded in the ancient tribal hymn lie cradled in the seagull's call; and all the promises they made are ground beneath the sadist's fall.
The poet and the wise man stand behind the gun and signal for the crack of dawn. Light the sun. Light the sun. Do you believe in the day? Do you? Believe in the day! [ED for the record? BULLSHIT: it's a question both times, here and below.]
The Dawn Creation of the Kings has begun. Soft Venus (lonely maiden) brings the ageless one. Do you believe in the day? The fading hero has returned to the night and fully pregnant with the day, wise men endorse the poet's sight. Do you believe in the day? Do you? Believe in the day!
The poet and the wise man stand behind the gun, and signal for the crack of dawn. Light the sun.
Do you believe in the day? Do you? Believe in the day! The Dawn Creation of the Kings has begun.
Soft Venus (lonely maiden) brings the ageless one. Do you believe in the day? The fading hero has returned to the night and fully pregnant with the day, wise men endorse the poet's sight. Do you believe in the day? Do you? Believe in the day!
Let me tell you the tales of your life, of your love and the cut of the knife: the tireless oppression, the wisdom instilled, the desire to kill or be killed. Well, let me sing of the losers who lie in the street as the last bus goes by. The pavements are empty, the gutters run red, while the fool toasts his god in the sky.
So come all ye [ED: wrong] young men who are building castles! Kindly state the time of the year and join your voices in a hellish chorus. Mark the precise nature of your fear.
Let me help you to pick up your dead as the sins of the father are fed with the blood of the fools and the thoughts of the wise and from the pan under your bed. Let me make you a present of song as the wise man breaks wind and is gone while the fool with the hour-glass is cooking his goose and the nursery rhyme winds along. [cf. 'Mother Goose' from Aqualung.]
[repeat omitted] See! The summer lightning casts its bolts upon you and the hour of judgement draweth near. Would you be the fool stood in his suit of armour or the wiser man who rushes clear.
So! Come on ye childhood heroes! Won't your rise up from the pages of your comic-books, you super-crooks, and show us all the way. Well! Make your will and testament. Won't you? Join your local government. [ETA: bullshit: 'Won't you join your local government?' is as read.] We'll have Superman for president; let Robin save the day. So! Where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday? And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you through? They're all resting down in Cornwall writing up their memoirs for a paper-back edition of the Boy Scout Manual.
[fruity strings]
OF COURSE
So you ride yourselves over the fields]
and you make all your animal deals
and your wise men don't know how it feels
to be thick as a brick.
[Next up:
Call me up after midnight
Tell me I'm wrong, tell me I'm right
What do you want? What do I get?
Did yo just need the argument?
Well, bad life...]
We will be geared to the average rather than the exceptional.
God is an overwhelming responsibility.
We walked through the maternity ward and saw 218 babies wearing nylons.
[unintelligible]
In the clear white circles of morning wonder I take my place with the lord of the hills, and the blue-eyed soldiers stand slightly discoloured in neat little rows sporting canvas frills. With their jock-straps pinching they slouch to attention whilst queueing for sarnies at the office canteen, saying 'How's your granny?' and 'Good old Ernie, he coughed up a tenner on a premium bond win!'
The legends worded in the ancient tribal hymn lie cradled in the seagull's call; and all the promises they made are ground beneath the sadist's fall.
The poet and the wise man stand behind the gun and signal for the crack of dawn. Light the sun. Light the sun. Do you believe in the day? Do you? Believe in the day! [ED for the record? BULLSHIT: it's a question both times, here and below.]
The Dawn Creation of the Kings has begun. Soft Venus (lonely maiden) brings the ageless one. Do you believe in the day? The fading hero has returned to the night and fully pregnant with the day, wise men endorse the poet's sight. Do you believe in the day? Do you? Believe in the day!
The poet and the wise man stand behind the gun, and signal for the crack of dawn. Light the sun.
Do you believe in the day? Do you? Believe in the day! The Dawn Creation of the Kings has begun.
Soft Venus (lonely maiden) brings the ageless one. Do you believe in the day? The fading hero has returned to the night and fully pregnant with the day, wise men endorse the poet's sight. Do you believe in the day? Do you? Believe in the day!
Let me tell you the tales of your life, of your love and the cut of the knife: the tireless oppression, the wisdom instilled, the desire to kill or be killed. Well, let me sing of the losers who lie in the street as the last bus goes by. The pavements are empty, the gutters run red, while the fool toasts his god in the sky.
So come all ye [ED: wrong] young men who are building castles! Kindly state the time of the year and join your voices in a hellish chorus. Mark the precise nature of your fear.
Let me help you to pick up your dead as the sins of the father are fed with the blood of the fools and the thoughts of the wise and from the pan under your bed. Let me make you a present of song as the wise man breaks wind and is gone while the fool with the hour-glass is cooking his goose and the nursery rhyme winds along. [cf. 'Mother Goose' from Aqualung.]
[repeat omitted] See! The summer lightning casts its bolts upon you and the hour of judgement draweth near. Would you be the fool stood in his suit of armour or the wiser man who rushes clear.
So! Come on ye childhood heroes! Won't your rise up from the pages of your comic-books, you super-crooks, and show us all the way. Well! Make your will and testament. Won't you? Join your local government. [ETA: bullshit: 'Won't you join your local government?' is as read.] We'll have Superman for president; let Robin save the day. So! Where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday? And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you through? They're all resting down in Cornwall writing up their memoirs for a paper-back edition of the Boy Scout Manual.
[fruity strings]
OF COURSE
So you ride yourselves over the fields]
and you make all your animal deals
and your wise men don't know how it feels
to be thick as a brick.
[Next up:
Call me up after midnight
Tell me I'm wrong, tell me I'm right
What do you want? What do I get?
Did yo just need the argument?
Well, bad life...]
