Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath Lyrics

I cannot even describe how great a song this is!

The cartoon Jabberjaw brought me here.

Relato de un Asesino?

Still here in 1/26/2020 and I still love it

your dad has to be kool

Simply said, this is rock at its core .

Peter Garret of Aussie Band Midnight Oil sang this song as his audition for the band, and the rest is history as they say.

so i learned this on acoustic guitar... and met a guy one day when I was over at a friends house... I was playing this song... he said... " hold that note" came back 5 minutes later with a flute... and let me tell you he was GOOD...

One of the most awsome jams ever!!!!!

When Ian stops the flute for a micro-second to catch his breath is cute

The only flute solo that rocks harder than 95% of guitar solos

Love to listen to this full blast... unbeatable

Thank "God" for the reformation....
Protest - ant to the core....
Gnostic in his core....brilliant!!!!
Ian Anderson...Thank God (so to speak)
"Reverend"
Gabby - Blazing Saddles

🤫😍🚂

J. Tull 's album I was given as a present when I as 15. Come on! Great stuff

Rock and roll era music here forever. Unlike modern time sound.

When I was young, this was new, powerful and meaningful. While so much music from that time now seems stale, weak and trite, this and other music from JT feels like it has an enduring quality.

ΘΕΟΙ!!!

I can almost hear Wolfman Jack announcing this song on the radio.

Thats some bad ass flute.

I remember having listened to this for the first time, talking to an old friend of mine in the Crown pub, the late Frank Knowles, being so blown away with it, our whole conversation was about how wonderful it was, happy memories, but still today nearly 50 years later, I remember those feelings. What magic music, wish someone would do such inspiring music today.

instead of the clarinet ;(

OMG This is insane. Wished I taken the flute

Obra maestra

Very very very merd

REAL ARTIST NOT CONTALABLE

What a great send off. Goodonya. Good son. Thinking you will succeed n really well. As you do I imagine how you.could not without your D n that positive song echoing in you head.

the flute steals the scene..and it's pure magic..

Ian was great. Ray Thomas was first.

A Fernanda no le gusta ésta canción.

Ian would do a whole concert dancing on one leg!

Einfach nur geil 😎😎😎

🌱🌾🤗

Listening in 2020 and enjoying

2020 motherfuckers.

I remember my sister and I driving with my grandma. She was playing this song and when the flute solo hit we all laughed cuz we didnt think it was going to drop like that.... I miss you so much grandma

Smells worse than diesel🦄😎🦄✌👍💙it

... Still badass 👌

631 UNLIKE ??? 631 IDIOTS

How much ian you pay for me ??

In my 60’s brings back my youth just a g f b. They were just so different “has got him by the balls”

It's time to steel the handle

🍀. 19 🌹.

I saw this show back in 1969 in San Francisco, Cal. I was 18 bytes then...unforgetable!!!!

beats Led Zep,s Stairway To Heaven,......

Never saw this band live. That does SUCK. but some of my freinds and i knew the band was playing outside at BALBOA STADIUM in our hometowm. We all gathered up our cash & stash bought a whole shitload of brews. Went across the street to balboa park. We twisted up a bunch of commercial. If u know what i mean. And got twisted iur own selves. That was a cocert for THICK AS A BRICK. Original crew. Barre cornick hammond hammond anderson etc. The band rendered all excerpts from THE BRICK. I guess they weren't finished on account of after an extended epilog of the affore mentioned album there was INTENSE cheering from those lucky people that were in attendance. Maybe 4 or five minutes later. That WODERFUL! little piano fiff rang out. And me an my freinds started cheering with that crowd a half mile away. It wa aqualung and it was good. The band did cross eyed mary wondring aloud my god and wind up as thyer'e final song. They weren't alone. Robin trower rory gallagher and star castle were theyre also. That show had a 40 foot screen called tullavision. I FUCKING WISH I COULD HAVE SEEN THAT SHIT.the whole show on jumbo tron. Like live & giant ass TV at the same time. But even from around 6000 feet away. It sounded real good. Im glad im from san diego. Ir that would just be another miss. Fucking great( 1976)

I have been listening to Jethro Tull since I was in my teens. I love this song and now I am 72 years old. Long live Jethro Tull. The song I’m talking about is locomotive breath

Wondering aloud
How we feel today
Last night sipped the sunset
My hand in her hair
We are our own saviours
As we start both our hearts beating life
Into each other
Wondering aloud
Will the years treat us well
As she floats in the kitchen,
I'm tasting the smell
Of toast as the butter runs
Then she comes, spilling crumbs on the bed
And I shake my head
And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are

Rock on, Amar. ✌🤘

Rock on old man! 🤘🏼🤘🏼

Compared to you I'm only a youngster at 70 but, like you, I've been a fan of Jethro Tull since my youth. Unfortunately, I never managed to see them live...that's one of the few regrets I have.

El 21 de marzo de 2020, estará Martín Barre, guitarrista de Jethro Tull, en ciudad de Guadalajara, México ...aya nos vemos !!!!!

Today’s music has got nothing on this !!

Love it!!

That's what I call funky.

Oh, I hope he don't slow down...so love this fantastic music

They actually say " no way to slow down" but it annoys me because it should sound like to not ta slow down.

@Heidi Clark It was meant to be a comment not an accurate song translation. Words.....

@Stuart Walsh I'm terribly sorry. I thought maybe you thought those were the actual words so I was just telling you because I didn't know at first either....

This is great music, and the lyrics seem to describe a past chapter in my life. Watching everything you built up come crashing down.

This is one badass song with one the best intros that it's worth a few seconds of waiting for. I don't like Aqualung because of the pedophictic lyrics.

jumanji

This band defined my teenage years...I still remember every word to Aqualung and I crank up the music whenever I hear it. I'm 61 yrs young and these songs still invoke memories that r cherished and provide fodder for mental videos of some of the best times in my life.

I know I'm almost 60 this reminds me of going to the Boston Garden in the winter in a snowstorm taking microdot acid with my friends life was such an exciting and wonderful place to be in such comradery not a care in the world I wish I was back

I AM the all time loser.

I always liked the intro best, piano with background guitar in a tiled train station restroom

The intro is magic, I totally agree.

Lord, when I die send me back to the 70's, please... (AND PLEASE LET THIS BE PLAYING ON THE STEREO WHEN I GET THERE!...)

DIRTYBOB59 yes yes dirty bob, the land where Amplifiers were Amplifiers and speakers were fucking terrified

Jumanji brought me here :v

Its a Break! Black bird anew, roam!

Who's crieing ?!
I'm not crying !
You're crying !
I've just got something in my eye...
♥️

who's chopping onions?

Family guy season14 episode 14 brought me here ,thanks Seth .

I heard somebody try to sing this as a karaoke song at the bar this week. They did an okay job, but I needed to hear the real thing.

So cool.

Good song no effence on anyone but I like this kind of music wag better than that modern rap #yuck

not a big fan of "tull" but I dug this

Remember the first time I saw him use that flute. I was shocked. I didn't expect that from him. Band was fucking amazing!!

Ok, kids, this is what artists sound like

who would ever think of a flute being the star of a rock song!!!

Rock on forever Ian Anderson!

Dad wants us to pick up where he left off. Saving people, hunting things, the family business.

Music is the meaning to life.

awesome I would have done the same thing

It's 2019 and Ian Anderson is still the greatest flautist to have ever lived.

+Is there someone else in rock?

@Vincent Fisher Jerry Eubanks

Dave Muse

oh wow, that flute, its super super - it wont slow down - locomotive breath.

1991 playing my life out the songs great but wrote my life and it was very hard to watch and live

Wir durften den Meister live in der Golan-werft erleben. Er kann s noch, nur sein Gesang ist nicht mehr so geschmeidig. Aber er hüpft immer noch auf der Bühne herum. Leider hat er ausgerechnet dieses Meisterwerk total verschnörkelt. Ich habe den tollen schiebenden Rhythmus vermisst, dabei hatten wir uns alle natürlich auf dieses Stück gefreut

so many memories ... many moons ago. was so young then.

Love that Ian put himself on the album cover

Good music beautiful

1972 was familiar w this album, had seen them in concert. One night was taking first trip on mescaline, middle of the night, my best friend Frankie (RIP) puts this song on the record player and turns the lights off. The piano starts and colors in that room became incredible, then that rhythm guitar grabbed my gut and wouldn’t let go, until the flute kicked in and took me buzzing thru all those colors. Laughing the whole time. So trippy.

Oh how I know the train that Twisted Metal Menace that racks my brain so fills me full of pain the train which is insane I can't escape it I can't forget it for the brake is lost and I do regret it over the train of pain so dark and twisted turning burning but yet I'm yearning to be set free of the train but I cannot be for it is destined to go down the track of pain and misery tormented torture the fiery death Locomotive Breath it's like a scorcher upon my soul the train I have to board the train that does no longer make me whole is the train of my death Locomotive Breath Locomotive Breath fry I want to find the break to stop you to drop you from going down this Twisted track of Torment from the painful dreams I must endure for so long I want to wake Locomotive Breath Locomotive Breath I want to find the break the only thing that sets me free that will put you to death

Brilliant

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I always thought this was the rolling stones.

Supertramp listened to this a few times, I'm betting.

Verry good Music ,thank youfor Music

About 2/3rds in there's a buzzing, I always thought that was my hi fi haha

I,m gonna get in trouble for mentioning the Trump Train. Yeah Yeah Yeah

imagine putting your thump down to this, oh i get it , they live in australia

chocolate cookie
caramel crispy nookie
twix for aunt snookie

I’m just digging myself man just digging myself to this tune goddamnit

I just got out of water read army hospital when this song came out I was there for almost 2 years what a tune man hey somebody please pass me a bone

Environmental degradation, rising overpopulation, dwindling water supplies... humanity is on a collision course with disaster. And it's virtually inexorable. I'm not sure that's what Tull had in mind with Locomotive Breath, but the lyrics are spot-on with humanity's course: "The train it won't stop going
... No way to slow down."

Aw shut the hell up and enjoy the music snowflake.

In One of The Hottest June's of 1988
Ever Recorded in Weather,
I, Neal Patrick Fry a.k.a. High Priest Tattooed on my Left and Right Biceps Behind *( Left to Right )* , " I saw Another Mighty Angel Come Down from Heaven Above ... " Left Upper
Righ Arm, Right Upper Arm is "A"
Viking Warlord as I Drove my 1988
Lincoln LSC that I Bought off the
Showroom Floor to Lovingly Faithfully and Lovingly Meaningfully Drive my Dad to Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital in
Ann Arbor, Michigan for Dad's Radiation Treatments. My Most Beloved Preciously Perfectly Wonderful
Father, Mr. Harry L. Fry from Westland, Michigan was Dying of Lung Cancer.
As All of The Doctors, Nurses and
Security Officers Knew that I was my
Most Beloved Loyal Loving Caregiver,
I " Choose " After Watching Children with Cancer to Sit in my Car Smoking
The Premo Grass or Weed to Feed my
Mind " With Hopes & Prayers " that The
Lord Would Take my Hero Dad Swiftly and As Painlessly As Possible. I Humbly ask The Lord for my Most Beloved Precious Dad's " Last Breath. "
With Dad's Most Meaningful Faithful Sincerest Precious Wife, Mrs. Lorna G.
Fry and myself, Neal Patrick Fry at Dad's Death Bed I Received my Hero's
Father's " Last Breath, " Brutally Angry
At our Lord Only for a Brief Moment of
my Beloved Father Dying Unmercifully in Agony, 'till "A" Nice Warm Loving
Feeling Reminded me, " My Father,
My Father Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me
Entering my Feelings, " amen.
A DAKOTA Watch with A Locomotive
Engine was Lovingly Affectionately Faithfully and Lovingly Meaningfully
Give to Another DAKOTA Pocket Watch
With The Hopes & Prayers for Many
" Dreams " Come True, amen.
Sea ya Later Dad & Mom Always and Forever Your's Forever and Forevermore Your's Always Lovingly,
Neal Patrick Fry a.k.a. High Priest a.k.a. Sundown from The " Sunrise Studios " in Livonia, Michigan U.S.A.

must have gone through at least 3 copies of this on vinyl from overplay, spilled beer, scratches from rocking parties

Only 3?

what did Ian Anderson think about the bum on the cover bearing quite a resemblance?

My favorite Tull song♥️