Lyrics: Strange Avenues Album: Rock Island Artist: Jethro Tull   Strange avenues where you lose all sense of direction And everywhere is main street in the winter sun. The wino sleeps — cold coat lined with he money section. Looking…

Lyrics: Undressed To Kill Album: Rock Island Artist: Jethro Tull   Working on the late shift — first drink of the day. Pull a chair up to the table, have to look the other way. What kind of place am…

Lyrics: The Whaler’s Dues Album: Rock Island Artist: Jethro Tull   Money speaks. soft hearts lose. the truth only whispers. It’s the whaler’s dues. I’ve been running on diesel. been running on coal. Running on borrowed time, if truth’s to…

Lyrics: The Rattlesnake Trail Album: Rock Island Artist: Jethro Tull   Got a hair shirt round my shoulder. got a cold stew in my spoon. And i’m falling on my head, lifting feet of lead — Now it’s got me…

Lyrics: Kissing Willie Album: Rock Island Artist: Jethro Tull   Breaking hearts in a market town. she eats filet of sole And washes it down with sparkling wine. Nice girl, but a bad girl’s better. qualifies in both ways To…

Lyrics: Heavy Water Album: Rock Island Artist: Jethro Tull   I walked out in the city night, A burning in my eyes, like it was broad daylight. And it was hot, down there in the crowd. The stars went out…

Lyrics: Ears Of Tin Album: Rock Island Artist: Jethro Tull   In the late hours of a sunset rendezvous — Chill breeze against tide, that carries me from you. Got a job in a southern city — got some lead-free…