Skating Away [On the Thin Ice of the New Day] lyrics

Meanwhile back in the year One

When you belonged to no-one

You didn't stand a chance, son

If your pants were undone

'Cause you were bred for humanity

And sold to society

One day you'll wake up in the present day

A million generations

Removed from expectations

Of being who you really want to be

Skating away, skating away

Skating away on the thin ice of the new day

So as you push off from the shore

Won't you turn your head once more

And make your peace with everyone

For those who choose to stay

Will live just one more day

To do the things they should have done

And as you cross the wilderness,

spinning in your emptiness:

You feel you have to pray

Looking for a sign that the Universal Mind

Has written you into the passion play

Skating away on the thin ice of the new day.

And as you cross the circle line

The ice-wall creaks behind

You're a rabbit on the run

And the silver splinters fly

In the corner of your eye

Shining in the setting sun

Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's

Too damn real and in the present tense?

Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like

You're the only person sitting in the audience?

Skating away on the thin ice of the new day.

• Artist:Jethro Tull
• Album:War Child (1974)