Letra de
Aqualung

A música Aqualung de Jethro Tull discute temas de abandono e desolação, inspirada por uma fotografia de um sem-teto que a esposa do vocalista Ian Anderson tirou. A canção é muito associada ao mendigo de mesmo nome, mas Anderson explicou que Aqualung é uma figura fictícia que representa vários tipos de pessoas marginalizadas.

Sitting on a park bench
Eyeing little girls with bad intent.
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Snot is running down his nose
Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
hey, Aqualung
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Drying in the cold sun
Watching as the frilly panties run.
hey Aqualung
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Feeling like a dead duck
Spitting out pieces of his broken luck.
ooh Aqualung
Sun streaking cold, an old man wondering lonely
Taking time the only way he knows
Leg hurting bad, as he bends to pick a dog end
He goes down to the bog and warms his feet
Feeling alone, the armies up the road
Salvation al-a-mode and a cup of tea
Aqualung my friend, don't you start away uneasy
You poor old sod you see it's only me
Do you still remember, Decembers foggy freeze?
When the ice that clings on to your beard, was screaming agony
And you snatch your rattling last breathes with deep-sea-diver-sounds
And the flowers bloomed like madness in the spring
Sun streaking cold, an old man wondering lonely
Taking time the only way he knows
Leg hurting bad, as he bends to pick a dog end
He goes down to the bog and warms his feet
Feeling alone, the armies up the road
Salvation al-a-mode and a cup of tea
Aqualung my friend, don't you start away uneasy
You poor old sod you see it's only me
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Sitting on a park bench
Eyeing little girls with bad intent.
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Snot is running down his nose
Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
hey, Aqualung
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Drying in the cold sun
Watching as the frilly panties run.
hey Aqualung
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ooh Aqualung
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