"Crazed Institution" genre: Alternative Cover Songs
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	If you don't know this song you would never guess it was a Jethro Tull cover. From the album "Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die", 1976
	CD: This version is on no CD   Label: No Release Credits: Written by Ian Anderson, Published by Chrysalis Music, ASCAP, 1976. Publisher has been contaced and asked permission but no reply
	Story Behind the Song One of my favorite Jethro Tull songs and have wanted to cover this song in a "bare bones" manner for about 12 years. No band that I was ever in was into it. I now record on my own digitaly with my PC (guitar, bass vocals and programmed drums) and nothing can stand in my way on this now. It is very different than the original with a lot of the instrumentation missing (brilliantly produced by Mr. Anderson). Not sure if he would appreciate a "modern/alternative" version of his song. The melody and harmony vocals I have tried to retain as much as possible and filled in the holes with as much creative guitar and bass fills as is with my usual style. Lyrics Just a little touch of make-up; just a little touch of bull; just a little 3-chord trick embedded in your platform soul; you can wear a gold Piaget on your Semaphore wrist; you can dance the old adage with a dapper new twist. And you can ring a crown of roses round your cranium, live and die upon your cross of platinum. Join the crazed institution of the stars. Be the one that you think (know) you really are. Crawl inside your major triad, curl up and laugh as your agent scores another front page photograph. Is it them or is it you throwing dice inside the loo awaiting someone else to pull the chain. Well grab the old bog-handle, hold your breath and light a candle. Clear your throat and pray for rain to irrigate the corridors that echo in your brain filled with empty nothingness, empty hunger pains. And you can ring a crown of roses round your cranium, live and die upon your cross of platinum. Join the crazed institution of the stars. Be the one that you think (know) you really are. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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