Jethro Tull - Beastie Lyrics
From early days of infancy, through trembling yearsOf youth, long murky middle-age and final hoursLong in the tooth, he is the hundred names of terror ---Creature you love the least. picture his name beforeYou and exorcise the beast.He roved up and down through history --- spectreWith tales to tell. in the darkness when theCampfires dead --- to each his private hell. if you lookBehind your shoulder as you feel his eyes to feast, youCan witness now the everchanging nature of the beast.BeastieIf you wear a warmer sporran, you can keep the foe atBay. you can pop those pills and visit somePsychiatrist wholl say --- theres nothing I can doFor you, everywheres a danger zone. Id love to helpGet rid of it, but Ive got one of my own.Theres a beast upon my shoulder and a fiend uponMy back. feel his burning breath a heaving, smokeOozing from his stack. and he moves beneath theCovers or he lies below the bed. hes the beast uponYour shoulder. hes the price upon your head. hesThe lonely fear of dying, and for some, of living too.Hes your private nightmare pricking. hed just loveTo turn the screw. so stand as one defiant --- yes, andLet your voices swell. stare that beastie in the faceAnd really give him hell.
