Lyrics to
Two Fingers

This version of Two Fingers was released by Jethro Tull in 1974.

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I’ll see you at the Weighing-In,
when your life’s sum-total’s made
and you set your wealth in Godly deeds
against the sins you’ve laid.
And you place your final burden
on your hard-pressed next of kin:
Send the chamber-pot back down the line
to be filled up again.

And the hard-headed miracle worker
who bathes his hands in blood,
Will welcome you to the final nod —
and cover you with mud.
And he’ll say, “You really should make the deal,”
as he offers round the hat.
“You’d better lick two fingers clean —
He’ll thank you all for that.”
As you slip on the greasy platform,
and you land upon your back,
You make a wish and you wipe your nose upon the railway track.
While the high-strung locomotive,
with furnace burning bright,
Lumbers on — you wave goodbye —
and the sparks fade into night.

And as you join the Good Ship Earth,
and you mingle with the dust —
you’d better leave your underpants
with someone you can trust.
And when the Old Man with the telescope
cuts the final strand —
you’d better lick two fingers clean,
before you shake his hand.

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Jethro Tull has released many songs over the years besides Two Fingers. 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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