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T is for Train – Locomotive Breath – Jethro Tull (Aqualung)

And we're back to the "classics".

For those of you who aren't devotees of the band named after an 18th century English agronomist, "Aqualung" is an incredibly cerebral album filled with dour musings on life, death, religion and the cost of faith.

If you have even the slightest knowledge of this album, it's probably from the opening line of the title song – "Snot is running down his nose, greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes", but despite the shock value of that track, it's Locomotive Breath that always gets the replay:

In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath,
Runs the all, time loser,
Headlong to his death.

He feels the piston scraping
Steam breaking on his brow
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train it won't stop going
No way to slow down.

He sees his children jumping off
At the stations one by one.
His woman and his best friend

In bed and having fun.
He's crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees
Old Charlie stole the handle and

The train it won't stop going
No way to slow down.
He hears the silence howling
Catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls.
He picks up Gideons' Bible
Open at page one

God, He stole the handle and
The train won't stop going
No way to slow down.
No way to slow down.
No way to slow down

A is for apple
B is for boy
C is for cat
D is for dog
E is for elephant
F is for friend
G is for girl
H is for hat
I is for ice cream
J is for joy
K is for kangaroo
L is for lion
M is for monkey
N is for no
O is for octopus
P is for people
Q is for question
R is for ring
S is for sun
T is for train
U is for umbrella
V is for victory
W is for window
X is for box
Y is for yellow
Z is for zoo

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