This the UK track listing; originally "Teacher" only appeared on the US release. The 2001 remaster follows the UK order and includes "Teacher" in the bonus tracks.
1. "With You There To Help Me"
2. "Nothing To Say"
3. "Alive and Well and Living In"
4. "Son"
5. "For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me"
6. "To Cry You A Song"
7. "A Time For Everything?"
8. "Inside"
9. "Play In Time"
10. "Sossity; You're A Woman"
I just cannot get enough of this record. I've listened to it over and over and over since I bought the remastered CD w/ bonus tracks back in July 2006, spinning it alternately on CD, iPod, and computer (I have it on vinyl as well but that one doesn't come out very often). It seemed to really fit my prevailing mood over that summer and most of the last year.
It first surpassed
Aqualung as my favorite Tull album, and eventually ascended to my overall Number One throne (although Tull's own previous album
Stand Up put up a valiant fight). Just the best all-around combination of crunchy early-'70s British rock sound, mind-boggling background textures, great lyrics and flute solos, absolutely bitching brain-warping guitar parts (Martin Barre is criminally underrated). I cannot say enough good things about it.
"In days of peace --
sweet smelling summer nights
of wine and song;
dusty pavements burning feet.
Why am I crying, I want to know.
How can I smile and make it right?
For sixty days and eighty nights
and not give in and lose the fight.
I'm going back to the ones that I know,
with whom I can be what I want to be.
Just one week for the feeling to go --
and with you there to help me
then it probably will."
