Η αριστουργηματική original version του τραγουδιού είχε μείνει έξω από το tracklist του Aqualung για το χατίρι της συντομευμένης με τίτλο ‘Wond’ring Aloud’. Την ακούμε εδώ όπως πρωτοεμφανίσθηκε στο compilation album (διπλό βινύλιο) Living In The Past του 1972. 📀 📀 The masterful original version of the song was left off the Aqualung tracklist in favor of the shortened one titled ‘Wond’ring Aloud’. Here we hear it as it first appeared on the 1972 compilation album (double vinyl) Living In The Past.

There’s the stillness of death on a deathly unliving sea
And the motorcar magical world has long since ceased to be,
When the eve bitten apple returned to destroy the tree.
Incestuous ancestry’s charabanc ride,
Spawning new millions throws the world on its side.
Supporting their farflung illusion, the national curse,
And those with no sandwiches please get off the bus.
The excrement bubbles, the century’s slime decays,
And the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say
It’s under control and we’ll soon be on our way
To a grand year for babies and quiz panel games
Of the hot hungry millions you’ll be sure to remain.
The natural resources are dwinding and no one grows old
And those with no homes to go to, please pick yourself holes.
We wandered through quiet lands, felt the first breath of snow,
Searched for the last pigeon, slate gray I’ve been told.
Stumbled on a daffodil which she crushed in the rush,
Heard it sigh and left it to die.
At once felt remorse and were touched by the loss of our own,
Held its poor broken head in her hands, dropped soft tears in the snow
And it’s only the taking that makes you what you are.
Wondering aloud will a son one day be born
To share in our infancy in the child’s path we’ve worn.
In the aging seclusion of this earth that our birth,
Did surprise. We’ll open his eyes.