Jethro Tull - At Last Forever

A beautiful track off of the Roots To Branches album. This is my first Tull video in quite some time, also this a request for tobytyke4.

Lyrics - So why are you holding my hand tonight?
I'm not intending to go far away.
I'm just slipping through to the back room -
I'll leave you messages almost every day.

And who was I to last forever?
I didn't promise to stay the pace.
Not in this lifetime, babe
but we'll cling together:
some kind of heaven written in your face.

So why are you holding my hand tonight?
Well, am I feeling so cold to the touch?
Do my eyes seem to focus
on some distant point?
Why do I find it hard to talk too much?
And who was I to last forever?
I didn't promise to stay the pace.
Not in this lifetime, babe
but we'll cling together:
some kind of heaven written in your face.

So why are you holding my hand tonight?
I'm not intending to go far away.
I'm just slipping through to the back room
I'll leave you messages almost every day.
And who was I to last forever?
I didn't promise to stay the pace.
Not in this lifetime, babe
but we'll cling together:
some kind of heaven written in your face.

This delicate song is about dying before ones domestic partner, a last goodbye. Our narrator assures his love that the approaching death cannot make an end to the bond between them: "Not in this lifetime, babe, but we'll cling together: some kind of heaven written in your face" and that he will stay close to her: "I'm not intending to go far away. I'm just slipping through to the back room, I'll leave you messages almost every day".
* Jan Voorbij
Source http://www.cupofwonder.com/rock2.html

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Jethro
• Tull
• Ian
• Anderson
• Martin
• Barre
• Roots
• To
• Branches

[gothling1955]

Hey, Aqua. Yeah, great choice for a video spotlight. This is really a GREAT song, filled with angst & emotional intensity. And you did a fantastic job piecing together the visuals, too, really nicely done. It's wonderful to see you posting your labor-of-love Tull clips again! I used this track to finish off my 2-disc "Contemplations Of The Fairer Sex" bootleg collection, which gathered together some of the greatest songs of that type, by a band not generally known or celebrated for them.

[Aqualung71]

Thanks for watching and for posting a kind and insightful comment as usual, I appreciate it. Yes I thought I'd post one since I haven't in some time, I just needed to finish my "Top 20 Guitarist" project first before I could upload this. But this was a request. "Contemplations Of The Fairer Sex"?! What did you have on there ole chap? haah! I'd personally love to hear that bootleg! Are they just Tull songs?

[robcas631]

Ian Anderson! You have to be one of the greatest flutists ever born! Slainte mo cara!

[briandyan]

There was a question from one commentor - where this came from, no one answered - The Roots to Branches album 1995. Anderson said it was his first ever real love song. It may not appear that way after stuff like Wondering Aloud, but that was what he told me one day. Roots was so far removed from the preceding album it was a sort of rebirth after Catfish Rising, their in my opinion, worst album and then Dot.com and.....well we'll see, but it's a beauty and definitely for Shona!

[maidmoira]

also got audience, not bad

[maidmoira]

by the by also picked up audience, nb

[maidmoira]

my sister and i picked up aqualung,and never looked back

[maidmoira]

i luv , yiou on the locomation treain

[crossEyedMary69]

Don't shake my faith in this free will...

Don't shake my faith in eternity ....

This song makes me cry - And who was I to last forever?

I didn't promise to stay the pace - R.I.P., dad.

[ancasmth]

wonderful song! I missed it so much! thanks a lot for posting it!:)

[drummerjohn49]

I'll always love this song!

[tobytyke4]

Cheers Aqua, this is the business!.Really appreciate your time and effort, as i have'nt heard this for many years. What a great song from a great composer.Tobytyke4 in sunny Barnsley.