Uploaded by internazionalikos2 on Dec 14, 2010
"Aqualung" is a song by the English progressive rock band Jethro Tull, and the title track from their Aqualung album. The song was written by the band's frontman, Ian Anderson, and his then-wife Jennie Franks.
Like many of Jethro Tull's songs, "Aqualung" tells a story —in this case, the story of a homeless man who's paedophilic, dirty, and dripping snot. The opening lyrics are: "Sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent. Snot running down his nose, greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes. Hey, Aqualung".
Aqualung was Jethro Tull's first US Top 10 album, reaching #7 in June 1971.
Lyrics:
Sitting on a park bench
eyeing little girls with bad intent.
Snot running down his nose
greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
Drying in the cold sun
Watching as the frilly panties run.
Feeling like a dead duck
spitting out pieces of his broken luck.
Sun streaking cold
an old man wandering lonely.
Taking time
the only way he knows.
Leg hurting bad,
as he bends to pick a dog-end
he goes down to the bog
and warms his feet.
Feeling alone
the army's up the rode
salvation à la mode and
a cup of tea.
Aqualung my friend
don't start away uneasy
you poor old sod, you see, it's only me.
Do you still remember
December's foggy freeze
when the ice that
clings on to your beard is
screaming agony.
And you snatch your rattling last breaths
with deep-sea-diver sounds,
and the flowers bloom like
madness in the spring
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like a foxylady by Jimi hendrix
AllyHanseN9 3 weeks ago
#WrongSongsToPlayInPrison " Jethro Tull - Aqualung "
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ScrubBrush15 3 months ago
aqualung - a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
jfossa 3 months ago
amazing song :)
majooismajor 3 months ago
what is an "aqua lung" anyways ?
majooismajor 3 months ago
Dat mix
ThatDisembodiedVoice 3 months ago
aint an expert, but guys, its fucking obvious this song is much more deeper than you trying to make it. pedophilia ? try understanding the whole lyrics not just one line where it says "eyeing little girls with bad intent"
tucemstriso 4 months ago
@clonecomanderfox It's not about a pedophile. It's about a homeless man.
MaceMn 4 months ago
Anderson called this "a guilt-ridden song of confusion about how you deal with beggars, the homeless."
MaceMn 4 months ago
Yes I was in High School when this came out. I use to trip off of acid and listen to Tull. I did get to see them around 1973
spankondrums1 4 months ago