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…And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps

This version of …And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps was released by Jethro Tull in 1978.

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Muscled, black with steel-green eye
swishing through the rye grass
with thoughts of mouse-and-apple pie.
Tail balancing at half-mast.
…And the mouse police never sleeps —
lying in the cherry tree.
Savage bed foot-warmer of purest feline ancestry.
Look out, little furry folk!
He’s the all-night working cat.
Eats but one in every ten —
leaves the others on the mat.
…And the mouse police never sleeps —
waiting by the cellar door.
Window-box town crier;
birth and death registrar.
With claws that rake a furrow red —
licensed to multilate.
From warm milk on a lazy day
to dawn patrol on hungry hate.
…No, the mouse police never sleeps —
climbing on the ivy.
Windy roof-top weathercock.
Warm-blooded night on a cold tile.

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You can understand the lyrics to …And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to …And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps" means the words set to the music of …And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jethro Tull. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to …And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps and the lyrics to …And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jethro Tull who came here looking just for the lyrics to …And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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