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Let me bring you songs from the wood:
To make you feel much better than you could know.
Dust you down from tip to toe.
Show you how the garden grows.
Hold you steady as you go.
Join the chorus if you can:
It'll make of you an honest man.
Let me bring you love from the field:
Poppies red and roses filled with summer rain.
To heal the wound and still the pain,
That threatens again and again,
As you drag down every lover's lane.
Life's long celebration's here.
I'll toast you all in penny cheer.
Let me bring you all things refined:
Galliards and lute songs served in chilling ale.
Greetings well met fellow, hail!
I am the wind to fill your sail.
I am the cross to take your nail:
A singer of these ageless times,
With kitchen prose and gutter rhymes.
Songs from the wood make you feel much better.
To make you feel much better than you could know.
Dust you down from tip to toe.
Show you how the garden grows.
Hold you steady as you go.
Join the chorus if you can:
It'll make of you an honest man.
Let me bring you love from the field:
Poppies red and roses filled with summer rain.
To heal the wound and still the pain,
That threatens again and again,
As you drag down every lover's lane.
Life's long celebration's here.
I'll toast you all in penny cheer.
Let me bring you all things refined:
Galliards and lute songs served in chilling ale.
Greetings well met fellow, hail!
I am the wind to fill your sail.
I am the cross to take your nail:
A singer of these ageless times,
With kitchen prose and gutter rhymes.
Songs from the wood make you feel much better.
Lyrics submitted by Philadelphia Eagles
Track duration: 04:56
"Songs from the Wood" as written by Ian Anderson
Lyrics © CHRYSALIS MUSIC GROUP
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This whole album was amazing. Certainly a lot better than most other Tull albums..
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I am the cross to take your nail:
A singer of these ageless times.
With kitchen prose and gutter rhymes.
Songs from the wood make you feel much better."
The song's a social satire on a public view of artists and songwriters. Of course it's mainly just a nice intro thingo, but yeah, 'I am the cross to take your nail' might even be seen as a comment to groups like songmeanings.net (yeah i know the internet was not around back then) that strikes me as an observation of how music is generally just a board on which to post your own interpretations, the fact that he alludes to religion is probably because he doesn't like dogma and is voicing a distaste for the way people use music to get their points across (in an extreme way Charles Manson comes to mind)
'Songs from the wood' is his name for stock music which people throw ideas at, and 'make you feel much better' can be taken at face value: unloading hangups and voicing opinions through criticism makes you feel Much better.