Cosy Corner / Shunt and Shuffle
Gerald Bostock, fresh from school with few O-levels, sets his sights
No grand, fanciful fantasies but level headed middle ground
The retail trade, the corner shop,
at humble service of plain town-folk
Open at nine and closed by six: enough to work, play, work around
Regulars drop by to chat in idle gossip, repetition
Same old words, another day while, all the time, life slips away
But slips so slowly, stretches moments into hours and hours to years
With characters by Harold Pinter, dark silences, slow Passion Play
Then home to fire up model trains and shunt and
shuffle wagons, locomotive breath upon his brow
Smooth clockwork running motors hum
while barren Madge prepares hot dinner
Fray Bentos pie: always a winner
So, praise life's routine cozy habits
And don't forget to call your Mum
No grand, fanciful fantasies but level headed middle ground
The retail trade, the corner shop,
at humble service of plain town-folk
Open at nine and closed by six: enough to work, play, work around
Regulars drop by to chat in idle gossip, repetition
Same old words, another day while, all the time, life slips away
But slips so slowly, stretches moments into hours and hours to years
With characters by Harold Pinter, dark silences, slow Passion Play
Then home to fire up model trains and shunt and
shuffle wagons, locomotive breath upon his brow
Smooth clockwork running motors hum
while barren Madge prepares hot dinner
Fray Bentos pie: always a winner
So, praise life's routine cozy habits
And don't forget to call your Mum
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]
- For A Thousand Mothers (in the style of Jethro Tull) [Karaoke Versions]
- Aqualung (in the style of Jethro Tull) [Karaoke Versions]
- One
- Thick As a Brick 2
- Locomotive Breath (In the Style of Jethro Tull) [Karaoke Versions]
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