JETHRO TULL: Stand Up (1969)

1. A New Day Yesterday
2. Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square
3. Bourée
4. Back to the Family
5. Look into the Sun
6. Nothing Is Easy
7. Fat Man
8. We Used to Know
9. Reasons for Waiting
10. For a Thousand Mothers

A NEW DAY YESTERDAY
My first and last time with you

And we had some fun.

Went walking through the trees, yeah,

And then I kissed you once.

Oh, I want to see you soon,

But I wonder how.

It was a new day yesterday,

But it's an old day now.

Spent a long time looking

For a game to play.

My luck should be so bad now

To turn out this way.

Oh, I had to leave today

Just when I thought I'd found you.

It was a new day yesterday

But it's an old day now.

Spent a long time looking

For a game to play.

My luck should be so bad now

To turn out this way.

Oh, I had to leave today

Just when I thought I'd found you.

It was a new day yesterday

It was a new day yesterday

It was a new day yesterday

But it's an old day now.

JEFFREY GOES TO LEICESTER SQUARE

Bright city woman

Walking down Leicester Square every day.

Gonna get a piece of my mind.

You think you're not a piece of my kind.

Everywhere the people looking.

Why don't you get up and sing?

Bright city woman

Where did you learn all the things you say?

You listen to the newsmen on T.V.

You may fool yourself but you don't fool me.

I'll see you in another place, another time.

You may be someone's, but you won't be mine

BOURÉE

(Instrumental)

BACK TO THE FAMILY

My telephone wakes me in the morning.

Have to get up to answer the call,

So I think I'll go back to the family

Where no one can ring me at all.

Living this life has its problems,

So I think that I'll give it a break.

Oh, I'm going back to the family

'Cause I've had about all that I can take.

Master's in the counting house

Counting all his money.

Sister's sitting by the mirror

She thinks her hair looks funny.

And here am I thinking to myself,

Just wondering what things to do.

I think I enjoyed all my problems

Where I did not get nothing for free.

Oh, I'm going back to the family.

Doing nothing is bothering me.

I'll get a train back to the city.

That soft life is getting me down.

There's more fun away from the family.

Get some action when I pull into the town.

Everything I do is wrong.

What the hell was I thinking?

Phone keeps ringing all day long.

I got no time for thinking.

And every day there's the same old way.

Of giving me too much to do.

LOOK INTO THE SUN
Took a sad song of one sweet evening.

I smiled and quickly turned away.

It's not easy singing sad songs,

But still the easiest way I have to say.

So when you look into the sun,

See the things we haven't done.

Or was it better than to run

Than to spend the summer crying?

Now summer cannot come anyway.

I had waited for time to change her.

The only change that came was over me.

She pretended not to want love.

I hope she was only fooling me.

So when you look into the sun,

Look for the pleasures nearly won.

Or was it better than to run

Than to spend the summer singing?

And summer could have come in a day.

So if you hear my sad song singing,

Remember who and what you nearly had.

It's not easy singing sad songs

When you can sing the song to make me glad.

So when you look into the sun

And see the words you could have sung,

It's not too late, only begun.

We can still make summer,

And summer always comes anyway.

So when you look into the sun

And see the words you could have sung,

It's not too late, only begun.

Look into the sun.

NOTHING IS EASY

Nothing is easy.

Though time gets you worrying my friend it's okay.

Just take your life easy and stop all that hurrying;

be happy my way.

When tension starts mounting and you've lost count of the pennies you've missed,

Just try hard and see why they're not worrying me;

they're last on my list.

Nothing's easy.

Nothing is easy.

You'll find that the squeeze won't turn out so bad.

Your fingers may freeze.

Worse things happen at sea.

There's good times to be had.

So if you're alone and you're down to the bone, just give us a play.

You'll smile in a while and discover that I'll get you happy my way

Nothing's easy.

FAT MAN

Don't want to be a fat man;

People would think that I was just good fun.

Would rather be a thin man;

I am so glad to go on being one.

Too much to carry around with you.

No chance of finding a woman who

Will love you in the morning and all the night time too.

I don't want to be a fat man;

Have not the patience to ignore all that.

Hate to admit to myself

Half of my problems came from being fat

Won't waste my time feeling sorry for him,
I seen the other side to being thin.
Roll us both down a mountain
and I'm sure the fat man would win.

WE USED TO KNOW
Whenever I get to feel this way,
try to find new words to say,
I think about the bad old days
we used to know.

Nights of winter turn me cold
fears of dying, getting old.
We ran the race and the race was won
by running slowly.

Could be soon we'll cease to sound,
slowly upstairs, faster down.
Then to revisit stony grounds,
we used to know.

Remembering mornings, shillings spent,
made no sense to leave the bed.
The bad old days they came and went
giving way to fruitful years.

Saving up the birds in hand
while in the bush the others land.
Take what we can before the man
says it's time to go.

Each to his own way I'll go mine.
Best of luck in what you find.
But for your own sake remember times

we used to know.

REASONS FOR WAITING
What a sight for my eyes
to see you in sleep.
Could it stop the sun rise
hearing you weep?
You're not seen, you're not heard
but I stand by my word.
Came a thousand miles
just to catch you while you're smiling.

What a day for laughter
and walking at night.
Me following after, your hand holding tight.
And the memory stays clear with the song that you hear.
If I can but make
the words awake the feeling.

What a reason for waiting
and dreaming of dreams.
So here's hoping you've faith in impossible schemes,
that are born in the sigh of the wind blowing by

while the dimming light brings the end to a night of loving.

FOR A THOUSAND MOTHERS
Did you hear mother?
Saying I’m wrong but I know I’m right
Did you hear father?
Calling my name into the night.
Saying I’ll never be what I am now.
Telling me I’ll never find what I’ve already found.
It was they who were wrong
And for them here’s a song.

Did you hear baby
come back and tell you the things he's seen.
Did it surprise you
to be picked up at eight in a limousine?
Doing the things he’s accustomed to do.
Which at one time it seemed like a dream
now it’s true.
And unknowing
you made it all happen this way.

Did you hear mother
saying I'm wrong but I know I'm right.
Did you hear father?
Calling my name into the night.
Saying I'll never be what I am now.
Telling me I'll never find what I've already found.
It was they who were wrong

and for them here's a song.