One Brown Mouse - Jethro Tull

Smile your little smile --- take some tea with me awhile

Brush away that black cloud from your shoulder

Twitch your whiskers.

Feel that you’re really real

Another tea-time --- another day older

Puff warm breath on your tiny hands

You wish you were a man who every day can turn another page

Behind your glass you sit and look at my ever-open book ---

One brown mouse sitting in a cage

Do you wonder if I really care for you ---

Am I just the company you keep ---

Which one of us exercises on the old treadmill ---

Who hides his head, pretending to sleep?

Smile your little smile --- take some tea with me awhile

And every day we’ll turn another page

Behind our glass we’ll sit and look at our ever-open book ---

One brown mouse sitting in a cage