Heavy Metals
RIFF-it good.
I am the smith. I feed my melt-pot,
fashion carbon steely blades
while coulter and the mouldboard stab
and break the clod in forest glades.
In sultry peace and blood-raised anger,
I hammer out my forging trade.
Lockheed, Fokker, Curtis, Hawker,
Avro, Gloster, Handley Page,
Colt, Beretta, Walther, Mauser,
Springfield, Ruger in a rage.
Holland, Holland, Boss and Purdey,
Woodward, Greener: golden age.
Every atom ofthe arsenal forged
in distant dying sun
in unholy Trinity now lends new
form to plough and gun.
Harry S. and Oppenheimer, Fermi,
Teller, what have you done?
And did they pray that He may guide
us in His ways, now battle's won?
I am the smith. I feed my melt-pot,
fashion carbon steely blades
while coulter and the mouldboard stab
and break the clod in forest glades.
In sultry peace and blood-raised anger,
I hammer out my forging trade.
Lockheed, Fokker, Curtis, Hawker,
Avro, Gloster, Handley Page,
Colt, Beretta, Walther, Mauser,
Springfield, Ruger in a rage.
Holland, Holland, Boss and Purdey,
Woodward, Greener: golden age.
Every atom ofthe arsenal forged
in distant dying sun
in unholy Trinity now lends new
form to plough and gun.
Harry S. and Oppenheimer, Fermi,
Teller, what have you done?
And did they pray that He may guide
us in His ways, now battle's won?
Credits
Writer(s): Ian Anderson
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Other Album Tracks
Altri album
- Homo Erraticus
- Thick as a Brick (Live In Iceland)
- Thick As A Brick - Live In Iceland
- Sunshine
- Bungle In The Jungle (in the style of Jethro Tull) [Karaoke Versions]
- Aqualung (in the style of Jethro Tull) [Karaoke Versions]
- For A Thousand Mothers (in the style of Jethro Tull) [Karaoke Versions]
- One
- Locomotive Breath (In the Style of Jethro Tull) [Karaoke Versions]
- Thick as a Brick 2
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