Lyrics to
One Brown Mouse

This version of One Brown Mouse was released by Jethro Tull in 1978.

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Smile your little smile — take some tea with me awhile.
Brush away that black cloud from your shoulder.
Twitch your whiskers. Feel that you’re really real.
Another tea-time — another day older.

Puff warm breath on your tiny hands.
You wish you were a man
who every day can turn another page.
Behind your glass you sit and look
at my ever-open book —
One brown mouse sitting in a cage.

Do you wonder if I really care for you —
Am I just the company you keep —
Which one of us exercises on the old treadmill —
Who hides his head, pretending to sleep?

Smile your little smile — take some tea with me awhile.
And every day we’ll turn another page.
Behind our glass we’ll sit and look
at our ever-open book —
One brown mouse sitting in a cage.

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About Lyrics and One Brown Mouse by Jethro Tull

The lyrics for One Brown Mouse are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Jethro Tull. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to One Brown Mouse have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for One Brown Mouse - Jethro Tull and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to One Brown Mouse by Jethro Tull in multiple ways. 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 One Brown Mouse" means the words set to the music of One Brown Mouse, 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 One Brown Mouse and the lyrics to One Brown Mouse 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 One Brown Mouse, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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