Jethro Tull - Sparrow On The Schoolyard Wall lyrics

You want to be a bookworm? You wanna be aloof?

You wanna sit in judgement, looking down from the roof?

Try a wee sensation: but first you have to want to join in.

You should be, should be raging down the freeway

with some friends from the mall.

Don't stay forever in your limbo: fly before you fall

little sparrow on the schoolyard wall.

So dress a little dangerous and modify your walk.

There's nothing wrong with sparrows, but try

to be a sparrowhawk.

Hunting in the evening and floating in the heat in the day.

You might, might acquire some predatory instinct.

Do the wolf pack crawl.

Don't stay forever in your limbo: fly before you fall

little sparrow on the schoolyard wall.

Well, I don't want to be your daddy.

Don't want to be your engineer of sin.

And I don't want to play the piper here.

I'm only banging on a mandolin

and anyway, you're just a little sparrow

on the schoolyard wall.

There's nothing wrong with learning. Nothing wrong

with your books.

So exercise some judgement. Too much broth can spoil the cook.

Feel a little sensation and know when it's time to join in.

You should be, should be raging down the freeway

with some friends from the mall.

Don't stay forever in your limbo: fly before you fall

little sparrow on the schoolyard wall.