Thick As A Brick Really don't mind if you sit this one [ссылка] words but a whisper -- your deafness a SHOUT.I may make you feel but I can't make you think.Your sperm's in the gutter -- your love's in the [ссылка] you ride yourselves over the fields andyou make all your animal deals andyour wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a [ссылка] the [ссылка] virtues are all swept away inthe tidal destructionthe moral [ссылка] elastic retreat rings the close of play as the last wave uncoversthe newfangled way.But your new shoes are worn at the heels andyour suntan does rapidly peel andyour wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a [ссылка] the love that I feel is so far away:I'm a bad dream that I just had today [ссылка] youshake your head andsay it's a shame.Spin me back down the years and the days of my youth.Draw the lace and black curtains and shut out the whole truth.Spin me down the long ages: let them sing the [ссылка] there! A son is born [ссылка] we pronounce him fit to [ссылка] are black-heads on his shoulders, and he pees himself in the night.We'llmake a man of himput him to tradeteach himto play Monopoly andto sing in the [ссылка] Poet and the painter casting shadows on the water [ссылка] the sun plays on the infantry returning from the [ссылка] [ссылка] and the thinker: no allowance for the other [ссылка] the failing light illuminates the mercenary's [ссылка] home fire burning: the kettle almost boiling --but the master of the house is far [ссылка] horses stamping [ссылка] warm breath cloudingin the sharp and frosty morning of the [ссылка] the poet lifts his pen while the soldier sheaths his [ссылка] the youngest of the family is moving with authority.Building castles by the sea, he dares the tardy tide to wash them all [ссылка] cattle quietly grazing at the grass down by the riverwhere the swelling mountain water moves onward to the sea:the builder of the castles renews the age-old purposeand contemplates the milking girl whose offer is his [ссылка] young men of the household haveall gone into service andare not to be expected for a [ссылка] innocent young master [ссылка] moving ever faster --has formed the plan to change the man he [ссылка] the poet sheaths his pen while the soldier lifts his [ссылка] the oldest of the family is moving with [ссылка] from across the sea, he challenges the son who puts him to the run.What do you do whenthe old man's gone [ссылка] you want to be him? Andyour real self sings the [ссылка] you want to free him?No one to help you get up steam [ссылка] the whirlpool turns you `way [ссылка].[ссылка] come down from the upper class to mend your rotten [ссылка] father was a man-of-power whom everyone [ссылка] come on all you criminals![ссылка] got to put you straight just like I did with my old man [ссылка] years too late.Your bread and water's going cold.Your hair is too short and neat.I'll judge you all and make damn sure that no-one judges me.You curl your toes in fun as you smile at everyone -- you meet the stares.[ссылка] unaware that your doings aren't [ссылка] you laugh most ruthlessly as you tell us what not to be.But how are we supposed to see where we should run?I see you shuffle in the courtroom withyour rings upon your fingers andyour downy little sidies andyour silver-buckle [ссылка] at the hard case, you follow the example of the [ссылка] idolwho lets you bend the [ссылка]Come on ye childhood heroes!Won't you rise up from the pages of your comic-booksyour super crooksand show us all the way.[ссылка] your will and testament. Won't you?Join your local government.We'll have Superman for presidentlet Robin save the day.You put your bet on number one and it comes up every [ссылка] other kids have all backed down and they put you first in [ссылка] so you finally ask yourself just how big you are [ссылка] take your place in a wiser world of bigger motor [ссылка] you wonder who to call [ссылка] Where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday?And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you though?[ссылка] all resting down in Cornwall --writing up their memoirs for a paper-back editionof the Boy Scout Manual.