"Beastie"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast (1982); Through The Years (1997); The Broadsword and The Beast Remastered (2005); The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)
Bootlegs: Nostell Priory UK 08-24-1982 (1982)

From early days of infancy through trembling years of youth
Long murky middle-ages and final hours long in the tooth
He's the hundred names of terror, creature you love the least
Picture his name before you and exorcise the beast
He roved up and down through history, spectre with tales to tell
In the darkness when the campfire's dead, to each his private hell
If you look behind your shoulder, as you feel his eyes to feast
You can witness now the everchanging nature of the beast, Beastie
If you wear a warmer sporran, you can keep the foe at bay
You can pop those pills and visit some psychiatrist who'll say
There's nothing I can do for you, everywhere's a danger zone
I'd love to help get rid of it, but I've got one of my own
There's a beast upon my shoulder and a fiend upon my back
Feel his burning breath a heaving, smoke oozing from his stack
And he moves beneath the covers or he lies below the bed
He's the beast upon your shoulder, he's the price upon your head
He's the lonely fear of dying and for some, of living too
He's your private nightmare pricking, he'd just love to turn the screw
So stand as one defiant, yes, and let your voices swell
Stare that beastie in the face and really give him hell, Beastie
He's the beast upon your shoulder, Beastie, and a fiend upon my back, Beastie
Feel his burning breath a heaving, Beastie, smoke oozing from his stack, Beastie
And he moves beneath the covers, Beastie, or he lies below the bed, Beastie
He's the beast upon your shoulder, Beastie, he's the price upon your head, oh look out!



"Clasp"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast (1982); 20 Years of Jethro Tull: The Essential Tull (1988); The Broadsword and The Beast Remastered (2005); The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)
Bootlegs: Nostell Priory UK 08-24-1982 (1982); Capitol Theatre 10/28/84 (1984); Hard Times of Old England (2021); Live In Freiburg 1982 (2022); London Fields (2023)

We travellers on the endless wastes in single orbits, gliding
Cold-eyed march towards the dawn behind hard-weather hoods a-hiding
Meeting as the tall ships do passing in the channel
Afraid to chance a gentle touch, afraid to make the clasp
In high-rise city canyons dwells the discontent of ages
On ring roads, nose to bumper crawl commuters in their cages
Cryptic signals flash across from pilots in the fast lane
Double-locked and belted in, too late to make the clasp
Let's break the journey now on some lonely road
Sit down as strangers will, let the stress unload
Talk in confidential terms, share a dark unspoken fear
Refill the cup and drink it up, say goodnight and wish good luck
Synthetic chiefs with frozen smiles holding unsteady courses
Grip the reins of history, high on their battle horses
And meeting as good statesmen do before the T.V. eyes of millions
Hand to hand exchange the lie, pretend to make the clasp



"Fallen On Hard Times"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast (1982); 20 Years of Jethro Tull: The Essential Tull (1988); The Broadsword and The Beast Remastered (2005); The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)
Bootlegs: Nostell Priory UK 08-24-1982 (1982); Jack In The Green: Live In Germany 1970-1993 (1993); Hard Times of Old England (2021); Live In Freiburg 1982 (2022)

Fallen on hard times, but it feels good to know that milk and honey's just around the bend
Running on bad lines, we'd better run as we go, tear up, tear up the overdraft again
Oh, dear Prime Minister, it's all such a mess, go right ahead and pull the rotten tooth
Oh, Mr. President, you've been put to the test, come clean, for once, and hit us with the truth
Looking for sunshine, oh but it's black and it's cold, yet, you say that milk and honey's just round the bend
Giving us a hard time, my friends, handing us the same line again
Fallen on hard times and there's nowhere to hide, now they've re-possessed the Rolls Royce and the mink
Turning on the peace sign and it's back to the wood, soon there will be raised a holy stink
Somebody wake me, I've been sleeping too long, oh, I don't have to take this lying down
You can keep your promises, shove `em where they belong, don't ask me to the party, won't be around
Looking for sunshine, oh but it's black and it's cold, yet, you say that milk and honey's just round the bend
Giving us a hard time, my friends, handing us the same line again
Fallen on hard times, we've fallen on hard times
Oh, fallen on hard times, I can read between the lines, oh, fallen on hard times



"Flying Colours"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast (1982); The Broadsword and The Beast Remastered (2005); The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)

Shout if you will, but that just won't do, I, for one, would rather follow softer options
I'll take the easy line, another sip of wine, and if I ignore the face you wore it's just a way of mine, to keep from flying colours
Don't lay your bait while the whole world waits around to see me shoot you down, it's all so second-rate
When we can last for days on a loving night or for hours at least on a warm whisper given
You always pick the best time to rise to the fight, to break the hard bargain that we've driven, once again we're flying colours
I thought we had it out the night before and settled old scores, but not the hard way
Was it a glass too much? Or a smile too few? Did our friends all catch the needle match? Did we want them to?
In a fancy restaurant we were all aglow, keeping cool by mutual permission
How did the conversation get to where we came to blows? We were set up in a red condition and again we're flying colours
Shout, but you see it still won't do with my colours on I can be just as bad as you
Have I had a glass too much? Did I give a smile too few?
Did our friends all catch the needle match? Did we want them to?
We act our parts so well, like we wrote the play, all so predictable and we know it
We'll settle old scores now and settle the hard way, you may not even live to outgrow it
Once again we're flying colours, flying colours



"Slow Marching Band"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast (1982); The Broadsword and The Beast Remastered (2005); The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)

Would you join a slow marching band? And take pleasure in your leaving
As the ferry sails and tears are dried and cows come home at evening
Could you get behind a slow marching band? And join together in the passing
Of all we shared through yesterdays, in sorrows neverlasting
Take a hand and take a bow, you played for me, that's all for now
Oh, and never mind the words, just hum along and keep on going
Walk on slowly, don't look behind you, don't say goodbye, love, I won't remind you
Dream of me as the nights draw cold, still marking time through Winter
You paid the piper and called the tune and you marched the band away
Take a hand and take a bow, you played for me, that's all for now
Oh, and never mind the words, just hum along and keep on going
Walk on slowly, don't look behind you, don't say goodbye, love, I won't remind you
Walk on slowly, don't look behind you, don't say goodbye, love, I won't remind you, remind you



"Broadsword"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast (1982); The Best of Jethro Tull: The Anniversary Collection (1993); 25 Years of Jethro Tull: Remixed Classic Songs (1993); 36 Greatest Hits (1998);
The Very Best of Jethro Tull (2001); The Broadsword and The Beast Remastered (2005); All The Best (2012); 50 For 50 (2018); The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)
Bootlegs: Nostell Priory UK 08-24-1982 (1982); Hard Times of Old England (2021); Live In Freiburg 1982 (2022)

I see a dark sail on the horizon, set under a black cloud that hides the sun
Bring me my broadsword and clear understanding, bring me my cross of gold as a talisman
Get up to the roundhouse on the cliff-top standing, take women and children and bed them down
Bring me my broadsword and clear understanding, bring me my cross of gold as a talisman
Bless with a hard heart those who surround me, bless the women and children who firm our hands
Put our backs to the north wind, hold fast by the river, sweet memories to drive us on for the motherland
I see a dark sail on the horizon, set under a black cloud that hides the sun
So bring me my broadsword and clear understanding, bring me my cross of gold as a talisman
So bring me my broadsword and a cross of gold as a talisman



"Pussy Willow"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast (1982); Live At Hammersmith '84 (1990); A Little Light Music (1992); The Best of Jethro Tull: The Anniversary Collection (1993);
25 Years of Jethro Tull: Live Across The World and Through The Years (1993); The Broadsword and The Beast Remastered (2005); All The Best (2012); 50 For 50 (2018);
The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)
Bootlegs: Nostell Priory UK 08-24-1982 (1982); One Flute Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1990); Jack In The Green: Live In Germany 1970-1993 (1993); Hard Times of Old England (2021); Live In Freiburg 1982 (2022);
London Fields (2023)

In the half-tone light of a young morning, she sighs and shifts on the pillow
And across her face dancing, the first shadows fly to kiss the Pussy Willow
In her fairy-tale world she's a lost soul singing in a sad voice nobody hears
She waits in her castle of make-believing for her white knight to appear
Pussy Willow, down fur-lined avenue, brushing the sleep from her young woman eyes
Runs for the train, see, eight o'clock's coming, cutting dreams down to size again
Pussy Willow, down fur-lined avenue, brushing the sleep from her young woman eyes
Runs from the train, hear her typewriter humming, cutting dreams down to size again
She longs for the East and a pale dress flowing, an apartment in old Mayfair
Or to fish the Spey spinning the first run of Spring, or to die for a cause somewhere
Pussy Willow, down fur-lined avenue, rushing the sleep from her young woman eyes
Runs from the train, Hear her typewriter humming, cutting dreams down to size again
Pussy Willow



"Watching Me Watching You"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast (1982); The Broadsword and The Beast Remastered (2005); The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)
Bootlegs: Nostell Priory UK 08-24-1982 (1982); Hard Times of Old England (2021); Live In Freiburg 1982 (2022)

I sit by the cutting on the Beaconsfield line, he's watching me watching the trains go by
Oooh and they move so fast, boy, they really fly, he's still watching me watching you watching the trains go by
And the way he stares, feel like locking my door, and pulling my phone from the wall
His eyes like lights from a laser burn, making my hair stand, making the goose-bumps crawl
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me, I'm watching you watching him watching me watching, stares
At the cocktail party with a Bucks Fizz in my hand, I feel him watching me watching the girls go by
Oooh and they move so smooth without even trying, he's still watching me watching you watching the trains go by
And the crowd thins and he moves up close, but he doesn't speak, I have to look the other way
But curiosity gets the better part of me and I peek, got two drinks in his hand, see his lips move, what the hell's he trying to say
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me, I'm watching you watching him watching me watching, stares, stares
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me, stares, oh he's watching me watching you watching the trains go by, stares
He's watching me watching you watching the trains go by, he's watching me watching you watching him watching me, stares
Oh he's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching



"Seal Driver"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast (1982); 25 Years of Jethro Tull: Live Across The World and Through The Years (1993); The Broadsword and The Beast Remastered (2005);
The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)
Bootlegs: Nostell Priory UK 08-24-1982 (1982); Hard Times of Old England (2021); Live In Freiburg 1982 (2022)

Take you away for my magic ship, I have two hundred deisel horses thundering loud
Sea birds call your name and the mountain's on fire, as the summer lightening cuts the sky like a hot wire
And you ride on the swell and your heart is alive, think I'll make you my seal driver
I'm no great looker, I'm no fast shakes, I'll give you a steady push on a six knot simmering high tide
I can hold us down, keep our head to the wind or let us roll on the broadside, cold spray flying in
And we'll ride on the swell and our hearts are alive, let me make you my seal driver
I could captain you if you'd crew for me, follow white flecked spindrift, float on a moonkissed sea
Could you fancy me as a pirate bold or a longship Viking warrior with the old gods on his side?
Well I'm an inshore man and I'm nobody's hero, but I'll make you tight for a windy night and a dark ride
Let me take you in hand and bring you alive, going to make you my seal driver, Seal Driver



"Cheerio"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast (1982); 25 Years of Jethro Tull: Beacons Bottom Tapes (1993); The Very Best of Jethro Tull (2001); Living With The Past (2002);
The Broadsword and The Beast Remastered (2005); Live At Montreux 2003 (2007); 'A': The 40th Anniversary A La Mode Edition (2021); The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)
Bootlegs: Nostell Priory UK 08-24-1982 (1982); Jack In The Green: Live In Germany 1970-1993 (1993); Hard Times of Old England (2021); Live In Freiburg 1982 (2022); Live In Switzerland 2005 (2023)

Along the coast road by the headland, the early lights of winter glow
I'll pour a cup to you my darling, and raise it up, say Cheerio



"Roland's Entry"
music by Peter-John Vettese

The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)





"Calafel"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)





"Return To Calafel"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)





"The Swirling Pit"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)
Bootlegs: Hard Times of Old England (2021); Live In Freiburg 1982 (2022)





"Inverness Sleeper"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)





"Me, Dinosaur"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)





"Honest Girl"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)





"DJ Dream"
music and lyrics by Ian Anderson

The Broadsword and The Beast: The 40th Anniversary Monster Edition (2023)