Jethro Tull- Black Sunday

Tomorrow is the one day I would change for a Monday
with freezing rains melting and no trains running
and sad eyes passing in windows flimsy
and my seat rocking from legs not quite matching
Got passport, credit cards, a plane that I'm catching
Black Sunday falls one day too soon

The taxi that takes me will be moving too quickly
My suitcases simply too full for the closing
of pants, shirts and kisses all packed in a hurry
Two best-selling paper backs chosen at random ---
no sign of sales-persons to whom I might hand them
Black Sunday falls one day too soon

And down at the airport are probably waiting
a few thousand passengers, overbooked seating
Time long suspended in transit-lounge traumas ---
connections broken and Special Branch waiting
conspicuously standing in holiday clothing
Black Sunday falls one day too soon

Pick up my feet and kick off my lethargy
Down to the gate with the old mood upon me
Get out and chase the small immortality
born in the minute of my next returning
Impatient feet tapping and cigarette burning
Homecoming one day too soon

And back at the house there's a grey sky a-tumbling
Milk bottles piling on door steps a-crumbling
Curtains all drawn and cold water plumbing
Notepaper scribbles I read unbelieving
Saying how sorry, how sad was the leaving
...one day too soon

Jethro Tull- Black Sunday, from the album A.

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• sunday
• jethro
• tull
• ian
• anderson

[placidian]

Is this a different mix? Sounds way diff. than the version on A. I love this song so MUCH.

[Aqualung1989]

@placidian I think this is the remastered version from "25 Years of Jethro Tull", although I'm not 100% sure

[claretaytay]

@Aqualung1989 it cam from the album A

[Aqualung1989]

@claretaytay the original song comes from the album A, but this is a remastered version

[Fahnenflucht]

i love jethro tull - i´m 17 and can´t really understand why music like this isnt in the charts anymore...

[loxten]

You stupid thick bastard - he's not dead.

[willicat441]

Genesis, Rush,Floyd fans...............your mouths are open.

[Jackinart]

To me it's so much fun listening to what they tried to do with these 25th-mixes, just because it doesn't really work. :-)

[DerErwecker]

LOUDER DAMN PC; LOUDEEEEEERRRRR !!!!

[Trower22]

Excellente chanson!

[hohaia01]

Shades of Queen but better.

[kpamrock]

Que pena me da de esta generación que les tocó vivir la pero época de la música, grandes genios como ian anderson, vivirán por siempre.

[Luxmaxnike]

@gillham89 maybe when you were young your dad listened to it in front of you

[motsrewop]

I say an interview someplace where he was asked why he took up the flute. His answer was that when he went into a store the flute was the lightest instrument they had. Later, when he had made it he played and composed on the piano. One of the greats of our time.

[magezimagezi]

Original Lp sound is lot better. Great music! Get it on LP!

[Noelegy]

Thank God I was introduced to Jethro Tull by an old boyfriend and thus got to hear more than just what the radio stations would have me hear--although "Locomotive Breath," "Aqualung," and other radio releases are preferable to 99.9% of what passes for rock these days.