Δύο τραγούδια παρεμφερούς θεματολογίας από το έξοχο Heavy Horses. Ήταν η δεύτερη folk καταβολών κυκλοφορία των Jethro Tull μετά το Songs From The Wood. Πηγή έμπευσης των άλμπουμ η νέα ζωή που ο Ian Anderson ξεκίναγε στα middle ’70s ως γαιοκτήμονας.

Two songs of similar subject matter from the excellent Heavy Horses. It was Jethro Tull’s second folk oriented release after Songs From The Wood. Τhe albums’ source of inspiration, was the new life Ian Anderson began in the mid-’70s as landowner.

…AND THE MOUSE POLICE NEVER SLEEPS [00:00]
Muscled, black with steel-green eye
Swishing through the rye grass
With thoughts of mouse-and-apple pie.
Tail balancing at half-mast.
…And the mouse police never sleeps —
Lying in the cherry tree.
Savage bed foot-warmer of purest feline ancestry.
Look out, little furry folk!
He’s the all-night working cat.
Eats but one in every ten —
Leaves the others on the mat.
…And the mouse police never sleeps —
Waiting by the cellar door.
Window-box town crier
Birth and death registrar.
With claws that rake a furrow red —
Licensed to multilate.
From warm milk on a lazy day
To dawn patrol on hungry hate.
…No, the mouse police never sleeps —
Climbing on the ivy.
Windy roof-top weathercock.
Warm-blooded night on a cold tile.

ONE BROWN MOUSE [03:12]
Smile your little smile — take some tea with me awhile.
Brush away that black cloud from your shoulder.
Twitch your whiskers. Feel that you’re really real.
Another tea-time — another day older.
Puff warm breath on your tiny hands.
You wish you were a man
Who every day can turn another page.
Behind your glass you sit and look
At my ever-open book —
One brown mouse sitting in a cage.
Do you wonder if I really care for you —
Am I just the company you keep —
Which one of us exercises on the old treadmill —
Who hides his head, pretending to sleep?
Smile your little smile — take some tea with me awhile.
And every day we’ll turn another page.
Behind our glass we’ll sit and look
At our ever-open book —
One brown mouse sitting in a cage.