Ears of Tin(2006 Remaster) - Jethro Tull

作词：Ian Anderson

In the late hours

of a sunset rendezvous

Chill breeze against tide that carries me from you

Got a job in a southern city

got some lead free in my tank

Now I must whisper

goodbye Im bound for the mainland

Island in the city cut by a cold sea

People moving on

an ocean groundswell of humanity

Now the sum breaks

through rain as I climb glen shiel

On the trail of those old cattlemen

who drove their bargain south again

And in the eyes of those five sisters of kintail

Theres a wink of seduction from the mainland

Island in the city cut by a cold sea

People moving on

an ocean groundswell of humanity

Storm lashed on the high rise

their words are spray to the wind

Blown like silent laughter falling on ears of tin

Take my heart and take my brawn

Take by stealth or take by storm

Set my brain to cruise

I can see the glow of the suburb lights

Im fresh from the out world

Singing the mainland blues

There was a girl where I came from

Seems a long time long time gone by

Wears the west wind in her hair

She calls from the hill yeah she calls

In my mainland blues

In my mainland blues

In my mainland blues

Theres a coast road

that winds to heavens door

Where a fat ferry floats on muted diesel roar

And theres a light on

the hillside and theres a flame in her

Eyes but how cold the lights

burn on the mainland

Island in the city cut by a cold sea

People moving on an ocean groundswell of humanity

Storm lashed on the high rise

their words are spray to the wind

Blown like silent laughter falling on ears of tin

In my mainland blues