"With You There To Help Me"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

Benefit (1970); 25 Years of Jethro Tull: Carnegie Hall 1970 (1993); 25 Years of Jethro Tull: Beacons Bottom Tapes (1993); Benefit Remastered (2001);
Nothing Is Easy: Live At The Isle of Wight 1970 (2004); Live At Montreux 2003 (2007); Stand Up: The Collector's Edition (2010); All The Best (2012);
Benefit: A Collector's Edition (2013); 50 For 50 (2018); Benefit: The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition (2021)
Bootlegs: Anaheim 10/19/1970/"Flute Cake" (1970); Jack In The Green: Live In Germany 1970-1993 (1993); Midnight In Chicago (Live 1970) (2021); At The Turn of A Page (2023); Boston Tea Party (2024)

In days of peace, sweet smelling summer nights of wine and song, dusty pavements burning feet
Why am I crying, I want to know, how can I smile and make it right?
For sixty days and eighty nights and not give in and lose the fight
I'm going back to the ones that I know, with whom I can be what I want to be
Just one week for the feeling to go and with you there to help me, then it probably will
I won't go down acting the same old play, give sixty days for just one night
Don't think I'd make it, but then I might
I'm going back to the ones that I know, with whom I can be what I want to be
Just one week for the feeling to go and with you there to help me then it probably will



"Nothing To Say"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

Benefit (1970); Benefit Remastered (2001); Benefit: A Collector's Edition (2013); Benefit: The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition (2021)

Everyday there's someone asking what is there to do?
Should I love or should I fight, is it all the same to you?
No I say I have the answer proven to be true
But if I were to share it with you, you would stand to gain and I to lose
Oh I couldn't bear it, so I've got nothing to say, nothing to say
Every morning pressure forming all around my eyes
Ceilings crash, the walls collapse, broken by the lies
That your misfortune brought upon us and I won't disguise them
So don't ask me will I explain, I won't even begin to tell you why
No, just because I have a name, well I've got nothing to say, nothing to say
Climb a tower of freedom, paint your own deceiving sign
It's not my power to criticize or to ask you to be blind
To your own pressing problem and the hate you must unwind
So ask of me no answer, there is none that I could give you wouldn't find
I went your way ten years ago and I've got nothing to say, nothing to say



"Inside"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

Benefit (1970); Living In The Past (1972); Benefit Remastered (2001); Living In The Past Remastered (2001); Benefit: A Collector's Edition (2013); Benefit: The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition (2021)

All the places I've been, make it hard to begin to enjoy life again on the inside, but I mean to
Take a walk around the block and be glad that I've got me some time to be in from the outside, and inside with you
I'm sitting on the corner feeling glad, got no money coming in but I can't be sad
That was the best cup of coffee I ever had and I won't worry about a thing
Because we've got it made here on the inside, outside so far away
And we'll laugh and we'll sing, get someone to bring our friends here for tea in the evening, old Jeffrey makes three
Take a walk in the park, does the wind in the dark sound like music to you? Well I'm thinking it does to me
Can you cook, can you sew, well, I don't want to know, that is not what you need on the inside to make the time go
Counting lambs, counting sheep, we will fall into sleep and we awake to a new day of living and loving you so



"Son"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

Benefit (1970); Benefit Remastered (2001); Benefit: A Collector's Edition (2013); Benefit: The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition (2021)

Oh, I feel sympathy, be grateful my son for what you get
Expression and passion, ten days for watching the sunset
When I was your age, amusement we made for ourselves
'Permission to breathe sir,' don't talk like that I'm your old man
They'll soon be demobbed son, so join up as soon as you can
You can't borrow that, 'cos that's for the races and doesn't grow on trees
I only feel what touches me and feel in touching I can see a better state to be in
Who has the right to question what I might do, in feeling I should touch the real and only things I feel
It's advice and it's nice to know, when you're best advised, you've only turned thirty
So son, you'd better apologize and when you grow up if you're good we will buy you a bike



"For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

Benefit (1970); Benefit Remastered (2001); Benefit: A Collector's Edition (2013); Benefit: The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition (2021)

Watery eyes of the last sighing seconds, blue reflections mute and dim
Beckon tearful child of wonder to repentance of the sin
And the blind and lusty lovers of the great eternal lie
Go on believing nothing, since something has to die
And the ape's curiosity, money power wins and the yellow soft mountains move under him
I'm with you L.E.M., though it's a shame that it had to be you
The mother ship is just a blip from your trip made for two
I'm with you boys, so please employ just a little extra care
It's on my mind I'm left behind, when I should have been there walking with you
And the limp face hungry viewers, fight to fasten with their eyes
Like the man hung from the trapeze, whose fall will satisfy
And congratulate each other on their rare and wondrous deed
That their begrudged money bought to sow the monkey's seed
And the yellow soft mountains, they grow very still
Witness as intrusion the humanoid thrill



"To Cry You A Song"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

Benefit (1970); Repeat: The Best of Jethro Tull Vol. II (1977); The Best of Jethro Tull: The Anniversary Collection (1993); 25 Years of Jethro Tull: Carnegie Hall 1970 (1993);
36 Greatest Hits (1998); Benefit Remastered (2001); Stand Up: The Collector's Edition (2010); Nothing Is Easy: Live At The Isle of Wight 1970 (2004); All The Best (2012);
Benefit: A Collector's Edition (2013); Songs From The Wood: The 40th Anniversary Country Set Edition (2017); Benefit: The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition (2021)
Bootlegs: Midnight In Chicago (Live 1970) (2021)

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



"A Time For Everything?"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

Benefit (1970); Benefit Remastered (2001); Benefit: A Collector's Edition (2013); Benefit: The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition (2021)

Once it seemed there would always be a time for everything
Ages passed I knew at last, my life had never been, I'd been missing what time could bring
Fifty years and I'm filled with tears and joys, I never cried
Burn the wagon and chain the mule, the past is all denied
There's no time for everything, no time for everything



"Teacher"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

Benefit (1970); Living In The Past (1972); 'M.U.': The Best of Jethro Tull (1975); 20 Years of Jethro Tull: The Essential Tull (1988);
The Best of Jethro Tull: The Anniversary Collection (1993); 25 Years of Jethro Tull: Remixed Classic Songs (1993); 36 Greatest Hits (1998); Benefit Remastered (2001);
Living In The Past Remastered (2001); The Essential Jethro Tull (2003); All The Best (2012); Benefit: A Collector's Edition (2013); 50 For 50 (2018); Benefit: The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition (2021)
Bootlegs: Living In The Past (45 EP) (2013)
Tributes: A Classic Case (1985); To Cry You A Song: A Collection of Tull Tales (1996)

Well the dawn was coming, heard him ringing on my bell
He said, 'My name's the teacher, that is what I call myself
And I have a lesson that I must impart to you
It's an old expression, but I must insist it's true
Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun
No sense in sitting there hating everyone
No man's an island and his castle isn't home
The nest is for nothing when the bird has flown.'
So I took a journey, threw my world into the sea
With me went the teacher, who found fun instead of me
Hey man, what's the plan, what was that you said?
Sun-tanned, drink in hand, lying there in bed
I try to socialize, but I can't seem to find
What I was looking for, got something on my mind
Then the teacher told me, it had been a lot of fun
Thanked me for his ticket and all that I had done
Hey man, what's the plan, what was that you said?
Sun-tanned, drink in hand, lying there in bed
I try to socialize, but I can't seem to find
What I was looking for, got something on my mind



"Play In Time"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

Benefit (1970); Benefit Remastered (2001); Benefit: A Collector's Edition (2013); Benefit: The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition (2021)

Got to take in what I can, there is no time to do what must be done
While I do some thinking, sleeping is hard to come by
So we'll all sit down and try to play in time and we feel like singing
Talking to people in my way
Blues were my favorite colour, til I looked around and found another song that I felt like singing
Trying so hard to reach you, playing what must be played, what must be sung and it's what I'm singing
Talking to people in my way



"Sossity; You're A Woman"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

Benefit (1970); 25 Years of Jethro Tull: Carnegie Hall 1970 (1993); Benefit Remastered (2001); Stand Up: The Collector's Edition (2010);
Benefit: A Collector's Edition (2013); The String Quartets (2017); Benefit: The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition (2021)
Bootlegs: Anaheim 10/19/1970/"Flute Cake" (1970); Midnight In Chicago (Live 1970) (2021)

Hello you straight-laced lady, dressed in white but your shoes aren't clean
Painted them up with polish in the hope we can't see where you've been
The smiling face that you've worn to greet me rising at morning
Sent me out to work for my score, please me and say what it's for
Give me the straight-laced promise and not the pathetic lie
Tie me down with your ribbons and sulk when I ask you why
Your Sunday paper voice cries, demanding truths I deny
The bitter-sweet kiss you pretended is offered our affair mended
Sossity, you're a woman, Society, you're a woman
All of the tears you're wasting are for yourself and not for me
It's sad to know you're aging, sadder still to admit I'm free
Your immature physical toy has grown too young to enjoy
At last your straight-laced agreement, woman, you were too old for me
Sossity, you're a woman, Society, you're a woman



"Alive and Well and Living In"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

Benefit (1970); Living In The Past (1972); Benefit Remastered (2001); Living In The Past Remastered (2001); Benefit: A Collector's Edition (2013); Benefit: The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition (2021)

Nobody sees her here, her eyes are slowly closing
If she should want some peace, she sits there without moving
And puts a pillow over the phone
And if she feels like dancing, no one will know it
Giving herself a chance, there's no need to show her how it should be
She can't remember now when she was all in pieces
She's quite content to sit there, listening to what he says
How he didn't like to be alone and if he feels like crying, she's there to hear him
No reason to complain and nothing to fear, they always will be