Lyrics to
Crossfire

This version of Crossfire was released by Jethro Tull in 1980.

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Spring light in a hazy May
and a man with a gun at the door
Someone’s crawling on the roof above —
all the media here for the show
I’ve been waiting for our friends to come
Like spiders down ropes to free-fall
A thirty round clip for a visiting card —
admit one to the embassy ball

Caught in the crossfire on Princes Gate Avenue
In go the windows and out go the lights
Call me a doctor. Fetch me a policeman
I’m down on the floor in one hell of a fight

I’m just a soul with an innocent face —
a regular boy dressed in blue
conducting myself in a proper way
as befitting the job that I do
They came down on me like a ton of bricks
Swept off my feet, knocked about
There’s nothing for it but to sit and wait
for the hard men to get me out

Calm reason floats from the street below
and the slow fuse burns through the night
Everyone’s tried to talk it through
but they can’t seem to get the deal right
Somewhere there are Brownings in a two-hand hold —
cocked and locked, one up the spout
There’s nothing for it but to sit and wait
for the hard men to get me out

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Jethro Tull has released many songs over the years besides Crossfire. 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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