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Song For Jeffrey

This version of Song For Jeffrey was released by Jethro Tull in 1972.

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Gonna lose my way tomorrow,
gonna give away my car.
I’d take you along with me,
but you would not go so far.
Don’t see what I do not want to see,
you don’t hear what I don’t say.
Won’t be what I don’t want to be,
I continue in my way.

Don’t see, see, see where I’m goin’,
Don’t see, see, see where I’m goin’,
Don’t see, see, see where I’m goin’ to,
I don’t want to.

Everyday I see the mornin’ come on in the same old way.
I tell myself tomorrow brings me things I would not dream today.

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Jethro Tull has released many songs over the years besides Song For Jeffrey. Jethro Tull released songs from 1968 to 2003 spanning across albums like This Was, Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung, Living In The Past, Thick As A Brick, A Passion Play, Warchild, Minstrel In The Gallery, Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die!, Songs From The Wood, Heavy Horses, Stormwatch, A, The Broadsword And The Beast, Under Wraps, Crest Of A Knave, Rock Island, Catfish Rising, Nightcap, Roots To Branches, J-Tull Dot Com, and The Jethro Tull Christmas Album. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Jethro Tull.

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About Lyrics and Song For Jeffrey by Jethro Tull

The lyrics for Song For Jeffrey are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by Jethro Tull. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Song For Jeffrey 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 Song For Jeffrey - 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 Song For Jeffrey 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 Song For Jeffrey" means the words set to the music of Song For Jeffrey, 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 Song For Jeffrey and the lyrics to Song For Jeffrey 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 Song For Jeffrey, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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