Uploaded by Aqualung1989 on May 18, 2008
We travellers on the endless wastes in single orbits,
gliding cold-eyed march towards the dawn behind
hard-weather hoods a-hiding.
Meeting as the tall ships do, passing in the channel
afraid to chance a gentle touch ---
afraid to make the clasp.
In high-rise city canyons dwells the discontent of ages.
On ring roads, nose to bumper crawl
commuters in their cages. Cryptic signals flash
across from pilots in the fast lane. Double-locked
and belted in --- too late to make the clasp.
Let's break the journey now on some lonely road.
Sit down as strangers will, let the stress unload.
Talk in confidential terms, share a dark unspoken fear.
Refill the cup and drink it up. Say goodnight and
wish good luck.
Synthetic chiefs with frozen smiles holding unsteady courses.
Grip the reins of history, high on their battle horses.
And meeting as good statesmen do before the T.V.
eyes of millions, hand to hand exchange the lie ---
pretend to make the clasp.
Jethro Tull- The Clasp, from the album Broadsword and the Beast.
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The Tull are as comforting as chicken soup on a winters night!
3 years ago 27
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Ian Anderson is a legend puts all these so called musicians to shame, they should watch and learn, a true master of what he does!!
thanks
3 years ago 20
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Intro and outro are as hauntingly EPIC as anything in music....period.
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For those who have never experienced tull i bid you move with haste to get on a journey of mystical wonder. I bid ye all well
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For Michael, died in 2010, oct,14.
Farewell my friend.
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great song from a great album..
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In two and a half bars, Ian writes more than most groups put in their entire song.....
4 months ago 2
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GR8!!!
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@TheDobek97 HUH?
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@gizmopaul1 No tme now to develope art, just crap painted as art?
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ta nie jest taka spokojna jak wszystkie przynajmniej na początku
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Tull always paints an incredible mental picture,never fails to draw my mind into it.
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Thanks Aqualung 1989!
Love this song
Pattieire 3 years ago 6
you're welcome :)
Aqualung1989 3 years ago