Jethro Tull- To Cry You A Song

Flying so high, trying to remember
how many cigarettes did I bring along?
When I get down I'll jump in a taxi cab
driving through London town
to cry you a song.

It's been a long time --
still shaking my wings.
Well, I'm a glad bird
I got changes to ring.

Closing my dream inside its paper-bag.
Thought I saw angels
but I could have been wrong.
Search in my case,
can't find what they're looking for.
Waving me through
to cry you a song.

It's been a long time --
still shaking my wings.
Well I'm a glad bird
I got changes to ring.

Lights in the street,
peeping through curtains drawn.
Rattling of safety chain taking too long.
The smile in your eyes was never so sweet before --
Came down from the skies
to cry you a song.

Jethro Tull- To Cry You A Song, from the album Benefit

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[danielweber2009]

This song is so great! Jethro Tull is ridiculously underrated.

[SouthJerseyGuy1]

As I sit here jamming to this tune,it dawned on me that my all time favorite bands come out of the same place.The Beatles,The Who,Genesis,Yes,Pink Floyd,The Kinks,David Bowie,Led Zeppelin,Elton John,ELO,Rolling Stones,Queen, etc. etc. etc..... Thanks England for all the great bands.

[MrLennie712]

..........JETHRO TULL..1969...in my teensroom..with my new pic up stereo....to cry you a song...dreams of beeing in the rockscen...but I was just a kid of 15....and Jethro tull was my first ecperience with real rock music after the Beatles...that was my sisters choise....keept them in my heart since then....love there unique sound..JETHRO TULL..RESPECT..

[inkum08080]

I saw them in a town in Kentucky (hate to mention caus I now live there again) but the crowd was expecting a rock and roll show. They were screaming " where's Jethro Tull" Ian Anderson was totally amazed at the response and if you have ever been to their concerts it was a sort of sit down, shut up and listen. I was mortified and kept yelling sit the frig down and listen to these guys! JT was a classical music class for the unwashed! Loved it!

[AgainstTheWind001]

Seen him in concert long ago (Fox Theatre)......... he went off on us Americans for wearing blue jeans to the thee-ah-ter.

Never wore a pair of jeans since then...... lol.

[time4action101]

@SouthJerseyGuy1 ...I agree be the US has had a few... But after all English is their native, native toungue, our inherited, but their music, all you have named and more stands on it's own...-:)

[time4action101]

.... I just went walking down Pacific coast Hwy in Sunset Bch, CA ..Flying so high .... 'walkin through 'sunset town to cry you a song' the cops here don't care as this is a premium 'fruits and nuts' area ..but w/$.....-:)

[denkey3458]

3 people can't even cry anymore because they died long ago..

[RockinRita45]

I will never forget the first time I heard this song on WNOX-AM radio out of Knoxville,TN late at night with a DJ who added an effect to his voice that made him sound like the wizard of OZ (the scary sound before the curtain was opened) like "I AM OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL...WHO ARE YOU? kind of scary. I burned the artist's name into my memory so that one hopeful day I would get to buy the album or 8-track. I have always been a fan.

[rinalgija]

Best song ever!

[jrad22ful]

Jethro Tull is a cornerstone in the musical universe - capable of balls on rock n' roll and a haunting beauty that squeezes the heart. Bloody brilliant.

[weewilly49]

There are truly not enough deliriously desciptive words in the english language to describe how many angles Tull Music hits you from! The huge catalog of tunes will take you on more trips than you've lived in all your reincarnated lives!