The Who Lyrics

The Who Lyrics by Albums

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Who's Next [1971]
01 Baba O'Riley
02 Bargain
03 Love Ain't For Keeping
04 My Wife
05 The Song Is Over
06 Getting In Tune
07 Going Mobile
08 Behind Blue Eyes
09 Won't Get Fooled Again
10 Pure And Easy
11 Baby Don't You Do It
12 Naked Eye
13 Water
14 Too Much Of Anything
15 I Don't Even Know Myself

The Who Sells Out [1967]
01 Armenia City In The Sky
02 Heinz Baked Beans
03 Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand
04 Odorono
05 Tattoo
06 Our Love Was (Is)
07 I Can See For Miles
08 I Can't Reach You
09 Medac
10 Relax
11 Silas Stingy
12 Sunrise
13 Rael
14 Top Gear
15 Glittering Girl
16 Coke 2
17 Melancholia
18 Someone's Coming
19 Jaguar
20 Early Morning Cold Taxi
21 Hall Of The Mountain King
22 Girl's Eyes
23 Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand
24 Glow Girl

Tommy [1969]
01 Overture
02 It's A Boy
03 1921 (You Didn't Hear It)
04 Amazing Journey
05 Sparks (Live)
06 Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)
07 Christmas
08 Cousin Kevin
09 The Acid Queen
10 Do You Think It's Alright?
11 Fiddle About
12 Pinball Wizard
13 There's A Doctor
14 Go To The Mirror!
15 Tommy Can You Hear Me?
16 Smash The Mirror
17 Sensation
18 Miracle Cure
19 Sally Simpson
20 I'm Free
21 Welcome
22 Tommy's Holiday Camp
23 We're Not Gonna Take It
24 See Me Feel Me (Live)
25 I Believe My Own Eyes

A Quick One [1966]
01 Run Run Run
02 Boris The Spider
03 I Need You
04 Whiskey Man
05 Heatwave
06 Cobwebs And Strange
07 Don't Look Away
08 See My Way
09 So Sad About Us
10 A Quick One, While He's Away
11 Batman
12 Bucket T
13 Barbara Ann
14 Disguises
15 Doctor, Doctor
16 I've Been Away
17 In The City
18 Happy Jack
19 Man With The Money

My Generation [1965]
01 Out In The Street
02 I Don't Mind
03 The Good's Gone
04 La La La Lies
05 Much Too Much
06 My Generation
07 The Kids Are Alright
08 Please, Please, Please
09 It's Not True
10 The Ox
11 I'm A Man (UK Only)
12 A Legal Matter
13 Instant Party (Circles)

Who's Next [1971]

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Baba O'Riley

Out here in the fields,
I fight for my meals,
I get my back into my living,
I don't need to fight;
To prove I'm right,
I don't need to be forgiven
Yea, yea,

Don't cry...
Don't raise your eye...
Its only teenage wasteland,

Sally take my hand,
We'll travel south crossland
Put out the fire
And don't look past my shoulder,
The exodus is here,
The happy ones are near,
Let's get together,
Before we get much older.

Teenage wasteland,
it's only teenage wasteland,
teenage wasteland, oh yea
only teenage wasteland...

Bargain

I'd gladly lose me to find you
I'd gladly give up all I had
To find you I'd suffer anything and be glad

I'd pay any price just to get you
I'd work all my life and I will
To win you I'd stand naked, stoned and stabbed

I'd call that a bargain
The best I ever had
The best I ever had

I'd gladly lose me to find you
I'd gladly give up all I got
To catch you I'm gonna run and never stop

I'd pay any price just to win you
Surrender my good life for bad
To find you I'm gonna drown an unsung man

I'd call that a bargain
The best I ever had
The best I ever had

I sit looking 'round
I look at my face in the mirror
I know I'm worth nothing without you
And like one and one don't mae two
One and one make one
And I'm looking for that free ride to me
I'm looking for you

I'd gladly lose me to find you
I'd gladly give up all I got
To catch you I'm gonna run and never stop

I'd pay any price just to win you
Surrender my good life for bad
To find you I'm gonna drown an unsung man

I'd call that a bargain
The best I ever had
The best I ever had

My Wife

My life's in jeoprady
Murdered in cold blood is what I'm gonna be
I ain't been home since Friday night
And now my wife is coming after me

Give me police protection
Gonna buy a gun so
I can look after number one
Give me a bodyguard
A black belt Judo expert with a machine gun

Gonna buy a tank and an aeroplane
When she catches up with me
Won't be no time to explain
She thinks I've been with another woman
And that's enough to send her half insane
Gonna buy a fast car
Put on my lead boots
And take a long,long drive
I may end up spending all my money
But I'll still be alive

All I did was have a bit too much to drink
And I picked the wrong precinct
Got picked up by the law
And now I ain't got time to think

Gonna buy a tank and an aeroplane
when she catches up with me
Won't be no time to explain
She thinks I've been with another woman
And that's enough to send her half insane
Gonna buy a fast car
Put on my lead boots
And take a long,long drive
I may end up spending all my money
But I'll still be alive

And I'm oh so tired of running
Gonna lay down on the floor
I gotta rest some time so
I can get to run some more

She's comin'!
She's comin'!

The Song Is Over

It's all behind me
I should have known it
She tried to find me

Our love is over
They're all ahead now
I've got to learn it
I've got to sing out

[chorus:]
I'll sing my song to the wide open spaces
I'll sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I'll sing my visions to the sky high mountains
I'll sing my song to the free, to the free
I'll sing my song to the wide open spaces
I'll sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I'll sing my visions to the sky high mountains
I'll sing my song to the free, to the free

When I walked in through the door
Thought it was me I was looking for
She was the first song I ever sang
But it stopped as soon as it began

Our love is over
It's all behind me
They're all ahead now
Can't hope to find me

[chorus]

This song is over
I'm left with only tears
I must remember
Even if it takes a million years

The song is over
The song is over

Searchin' for a note, pure and easy
Playing so free, like a breath rippling by

Getting In Tune

I'm singing this note 'cause it fits in well
With the chords I'm playing
I can't pretend there's any meaning here
Or in the things I'm saying

But I'm in tune
Right in tune
I'm in tune
And I'm gonna tune
Right in on you
Right in on you
Right in on you

I get a little tired of having to say
"Do you come here often?"
But when I look in your eyey and see the harmonies
And the heartaches soften

I'm gettin' in tune
Right in tune
I'm in tune
And I'm gonna tune
Right in on you (Right in on you)
Right in on you (Right in on you)
Right in on you

I've got it all here in my head
There's nothing more needs to be said
I'm just bangin' on my old piano
I'm getting in tune with the straight and narrow
(Getting in tune with the straight and narrow)
(Getting in tune with the straight and narrow)
(Getting in tune with the straight and narrow)
Yeah,I'm getting in tune with the straight ands narrow
(Getting in tune with the straight and narrow)

I'm singing this note 'cause it fits in well
With the way I'm feeling
There's a symphony that I hear in your heart
Sets my head a-reeling

But I'm in tune
Right in tune
I'm in tune
And I'm gonna tune
Right in on you (Right in on you)
Right in on you (Right in on you)
Right in on you

Baby,with you
Baby,with you
Baby,with you
Baby,with you
Baby,with you

I've got it all here in my head
There's nothing more needs to be said
I'm just bangin' on my old piano
I'm getting in tune with the straight and narrow

Getting in tune with the straight and narrow (repeat during fade)

Behind Blue Eyes

No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes

No one knows what it's like
To be hated
To be fated
To telling only lies

But my dreams
They aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be

I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free

No one knows what it's like
To feel these feelings
Like I do
And I blame you

No one bites back as hard
On their anger
None of my pain and woe
Can show through

But my dreams
They aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be

I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free

When my fist clenches, crack it open
Before I use it and lose my cool
When I smile, tell me some bad news
Before I laugh and act like a fool

And If I swallow anything evil
Put your finger down my throat
And If I shiver, please give me a blanket
Keep me warm, let me wear your coat

No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes

Won't Get Fooled Again

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?

Yeah!
There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

Yeah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

Pure And Easy

There once was a note
Pure and easy
Playin' so free, like a breath rippling by

The note is eternal
I hear it it sees me
Forever we blended
Forever we die

I listened and I heard
Music in a word
And words when you played your guitar
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me riding in a star

As people assemble
Civilization
Is trying to find a new way to die
But killing is really
Merely scene changer
All men are bored
With other men's lies

I listened and I heard
Music in a word
And words when you played your guitar
The noise I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me riding in a star

Gas on the hillside
Oil in the teacup
Watch all the chords of life lose their joy
Distortion becomes somehow
Pure in its wildness
The note that began all
Can also destroy

We all know success
When we all find our own dreams
And our love is enough
To knock down any walls
And the future's been seen
As men try to realize
The simple secret of the note in us all

I listened and I heard
Music in a word
And words when you played your guitar
The noise I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me riding in a star

There once was a note
Pure and easy
Playing so free, like a breath rippling by

There once was a note
Listen
*Repeat 18 times*

Naked Eye

Take a little dope
And walk out in the air
The stars are all connected to the brain
Find me a woman and lay down on the ground
Her pleasure comes falling down like rain
Get myself a car,I feel power as I fly
Oh now I'm really in control
It all looks fine to the naked eye
But it don't really happen that way at all
Don't happen that way at all

You sign your own name and I sign mine
They're both the same but we still get separate rooms
You can cover up your guts but when you cover up your nuts
You're admitting that there must be something wrong
Press any button milk and honey flows
The world begins behind your neighbors wall
It all looks fine to the naked eye
But it don't really happen that way at all
Nah nah no,don't happen that way at all

You hold the gun and I hold the wound
And we stand looking in each others eyes
Both think we know what's right
Both know we know what's wrong
We tell ourselves so many many many lies
We're not pawns in any game,we're not tools of bigger men
There's only one who can really move us all
It all looks fine to the naked eye
But it don't really hapen that way at all

Tommy [1969]

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Overture

Captain Walker
Didn't come home
His unborn child,
Will never know him
Believe him missing
With a number of men
Don't expect
To see him again.

It's A Boy

Nurse:

It's a boy Mrs. Walker it's a boy.
It's a boy Mrs. Walker it's a boy.

Chorus:

A son! A son! A son!

Amazing Journey

Deaf, dumb and blind boy
He's in a quiet vibration land.
Strange as it seems, his musical dreams
Ain't quite so bad.

Ten years old with thoughts as bold as thoughts can be.
Loving life and becoming wise
In simplicity.

Sickness will surely take the mind
Where minds can't usually go.
Come on the amazing journey
And learn all you should know.

A vague haze of delerium
Creeps up on me.
All at once a tall stranger I suddenly see.
He's dressed in a silver sparkled
Glittering gown
And his golden beard flows
Nearly down to the ground.

Nothing to say and nothing to hear
And nothing to see.
Each sensation makes a note
In my symphony.

Sickness will surely take the mind
Where minds can't usually go.
Come on the amazing journey
And learn all you should know.

His eyes are the eyes that
Transmit all they know.
Sparkle warm crystaline glances to show
That he is your leader
And he is your guide
On the amazing journey
Together you'll ride.

Christmas

Did you ever see the faces of the children,
They get so excited
Waking up on Christmas morning
Hours before the winter sun's ignited.
They believe in dreams and all they mean
Including heaven's generosity.
Peeping round the door
To see what parcels are for free
In curiosity.

And Tommy dosen't know what day it is.
He dosen't know who Jesus was
Or what praying is.
How can he be saved
From the eternal grave?

Surrounded by his friends
He sits so silently
And unaware of everything.
Playing poxy pinball,
Picks his nose and smiles and
Pokes his tongue at everything.
I believe in love
But how can men who've never seen
Light be enlightened.
Only if he's cured
Will his spirits future level ever heighten.

And Tommy dosen't know what day it is.
He dosen't know who Jesus was
Or what praying is.
How can he be saved
From the eternal grave?

Tommy, can you hear me?
Tommy, can you hear me?
Tommy, can you hear me?
How can he be saved?

See me, feel me, touch me, heal me!
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me!

Tommy, can you hear me?
Tommy, can you hear me?
Tommy, can you hear me?
How can he be saved?

Cousin Kevin

We're on our own, cousin,
All alone, cousin.
Let's think of a game to play
Now the grown-ups have all gone away.
You won't be much fun
Being blind, deaf and dumb.
But I've no-one to play with today.
Do you know how to play hide-and-seek?
To find me it would take you a week,
But tied to that chair
You won't go anywhere
There's a lot I can do with a freak.
How would you feel if I
Turned on the bath,
Ducked your head under
And started to laugh?
What would you do if I shut you outside,
To stand in the rain
And catch cold so you died?

I'm the school bully!
The classroom cheat.
The nastiesy playfriend
You ever could meet.
I'll stick pins in your fingers
And tread on your feet...

Maybe a cigarette burn on your arm
Would change your expression
To one of alarm.
I'll drag you round by a lock of your hair
Or give you a push
At the top of the stairs...

I'm the school bully!
The classroom cheat.
The nastiesy playfriend
You ever could meet.
I'll put glass in your dinner
And spikes in your seat...

Do You Think It's Alright?

Mother:

Do you think it's alright,
To leave the boy with Uncle Ernie?
Do you think it's alright;
He's had a few too many tonight!
D'you think it's alright?

Father:

I think it's alright, yes I think it's alright

Fiddle About

Uncle Ernie:

I'm your wicked Uncle Ernie
I'm glad you won't see or hear me
As I fiddle about
Fiddle about
Fiddle about !

Your mother left me here to mind you
Now I'm doing what I want to
Fiddling about
Fiddling about
Fiddle about!

Down with the bedclothes
Up with the nightshirt!
Fiddle about
Fiddle about
Fiddle about !

You won't shout as I fiddle about
Fiddle about
Fiddle about
Fiddle about !
Fiddle, fiddle, fiddle.

Pinball Wizard

Ever since I was a young boy ,
I've played the silver ball.
From Soho down in Brighton
I must of played them all.
But I ain't seen nothin like him
In any amusement hall
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure play a mean pinball!

He stands like a statue,
Becomes part of the machine.
Felling all the bumpers
Always playin clean.
He plays by intuition,
The digit counters fall.
That deaf dumb and blind kid,
Sure play a mean pinball!

He's a pinball wizard,
There has to be a twist.
A pinball wizard,
S'got such a surpple wrist.

"How do u think he does...?" I don't know?
What makes him so good?"

He ain't got no distractions
Can't hear those buzzers and bells.
Don't see no lights a flashin,
Plays by sense of smell.
Always gets a replay,
Never tilts at all.
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure play a mean pinball!

I thought I was
The Bally Table king.
But I just handed
My pinball crown to him.

Even at my favorite table,
He can beat my best
His disiples lead him in,
And he just does the rest.
He got crazy flipper fingers,
Never seen him fall
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure play a mean pinball!

Tommy Can You Hear Me?

Can you feel me near you?
Tommy can you feel me?
Can I help to cheer you.
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy
Tommy

Smash The Mirror

Mother:

You don't answer my call
With even a nod or a twitch
But you gaze at your own reflection!
You don't seem to see me
But I think you can see yourself.
How can the mirror affect you?

Can you hear me
Or do I surmise?
That you fear me can you feel my temper
RISE.

Do you hear or fear or
Do I smash the mirror.
Do you hear of fear or
Do I smash the mirror? SMASH!

Sensation

Tommy:

I overwhelm as I approach you
Make your lungs hold breath inside!
Lovers break caresses for me
Love enhanced when I've gone by.

You'll feel me coming,
A new vibration
>From afar you'll see me
I'm a sensation.

They worship me and all I touch
Hazy eyed they catch my glance,
Pleasant shudders shake their senses
My warm momentum throws their stance.

You'll feel me coming
A new vibration
>From afar you'll see me
I'm a sensation.

I leave a trail of rooted people
Mesmerised by just the sight,
The few I touch are now disciples
Love as One I Am the Light...

Soon you'll see me can't you feel me
I'm coming...
Send your troubles dancing he knows the answer
I'm coming...
I'm a sensation.

Miracle Cure

Newsboy:

Extra! Extra!
Read all about it.
Pin Ball Wizard in a miracle cure!
Extra Extra read all about it
EXTRA!

Sally Simpson

Outside the house Mr. Simpson announced
that Sally couldn't go to the meeting.
He went on cleaning his blue Rolls Royce
and she ran inside weeping.
She got to her room and tears splashed the picture
of the new Messiah.
She picked up a book of her fathers life
and threw it on the fire!

She knew from the start
Deep down in her heart
That she and Tommy were worlds apart,
But her Mother said never mind your part...
Is to be what you'll be.

The theme of the sermon was come unto me,
Love will find a way,
So Sally decided to ignore her dad,
and sneak out anyway!
She spent all afternoon getting ready,
and decided she'd try to touch him,
Maybe he'd see that she was free
and talk to her this Sunday.

She knew from the start
Deep down in her heart
That she and Tommy were worlds apart,
But her Mother said never mind your part...
Is to be what you'll be.

She arrived at six and the place was swinging
to gospel music by nine.
Group after group appeared on the stage
and Sally just sat there crying.
She bit her nails looking pretty as a picture
right in the very front row
And then a DJ wearing a blazer with a badge
ran on and said 'here we go!'

The crowd went crazy
As Tommy hit the stage!
Little Sally got lost as the police bossed
The crowd back in a rage!

But soon the atmosphere was cooler
as Tommy gave a lesson.
Sally just had to let him know she loved him
and leapt up on the rostrum!
She ran cross stage to the spotlit figure
and touched him on the face
Tommy whirled around as a uniformed man,
threw her of the stage.

She knew from the start
Deep down in her heart
That she and Tommy were worlds apart,
But her Mother said never mind your part...
Is to be what you'll be.
Her cheek hit a chair and blood trickled down,
mingling with her tears,
Tommy carried on preaching
and his voice filled Sally's ear
She caught his eye she had to try
but couldn't see through the lights
Her face was gashed and the ambulance men
had to carry her out that night.

The crowd went crazy
As Tommy left the stage!
Little Sally was lost for the price of a touch
And a gash across her face! OOoooh.

Sixteen stitches put her right and her Dad said
'don't say I didn't warn yer'.
Sally got married to a rock musician
she met in California
Tommy always talks about the day
the disciples all went wild!
Sally still carries a scar on her cheek
to remind her of his smile.

She knew from the start
Deep down in her heart
That she and Tommy were worlds apart,
But her Mother said never mind your part...
Is to be what you'll be.

I'm Free

I'm Free-I'm free
And freedom tastes of reality,
I'm free-I'm free,
And I'm wating for you to follow

If I told what it takes
to reach the highest high,
You'd laugh and say "nothings that simple"
But you've been told many times before
Messiahs pointed to the door
And no one had the guts to leave the temple!

I'm free-I'm free
And freedom tastes of reality
I'm free-I'm free
And I'm wating for you to follow me

Chorus:

How can we follow?
How can we follow?

Welcome

Tommy:

Come to my house
Be one of the comfortable people.
Come to this house
We're drinking all night
Never sleeping.

Milkman come in!
And you baker,
Little old lady welcome
And you shoe maker

Come to this house!
Into this house.

Come to this house
Be one of us.
Make this your house
Be one of us.

You can help
To collect some more in
Young and old people
Lets get them all in!

Come to this house!
Into this house.

Ask along that man who's wearing a carnation.
Bring every single person
from Victoria Station,
Go into that hospital
and bring nurses and patients,
Everybody go home and fetch their relations!

Come to this house
Be one of the comfortable people.
Lovely bright home
Drinking all night never sleeping.

We need more room
Build an extension
A colourful palace
Spare no expense now

Come to this house
Be one of us
Come into this house
Be one of us

Come to this house
Into this house

Welcome

Tommy's Holiday Camp

Uncle Ernie:
Good morning Campers!

I'm your Uncle Ernie
And I'll welcome you to Tommy's Holiday Camp
The camp with the difference
Nevermind the weather
When you come to Tommy's
The holiday's forever

We're Not Gonna Take It

Tommy: Welcome to the Camp,
I guess you all know why we're here.
My name is Tommy
And I became aware this year

If you want to follow me,
You've got to play pinball.
And put in your earplugs
Put on your eyeshades
You know where to put the caulk

Hey you getting drunk, so sorry!
I've got you sussed.
Hey you smoking Mother Nature!
This is a bust!
Hey hung up old Mr. Normal,
Don't try to gain my trust!
'Cause you ain't gonna follow me any of those ways
Although you think you must

Guests:
We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it

We're not gonna take it
Never did and never will
We're not gonna take it
Gonna break it, gonna shake it,
let's forget it better still

Tommy: Now you can't hear me,
your ears are truly sealed.
You can't speak either,
your mouth is filled.
You can't see nothing,
and pinball completes the scene.
Here comes Uncle Ernie to guide you to
Your very own machine.

Guests:
We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it

We're not gonna take it
Never did and never will
Don't want no religion
And as far as we can tell
We ain't gonna take you
Never did and never will
We're not gonna take you
We forsake you
Gonna rape you
Let's forget you better still.

Tommy:
See me.
Feel me.
Touch me.
Heal me.

Listening to you,
I get the music.
Gazing at you,
I get the heat.
Following you,
I climb the mountains.
I get excitement at your feet.

Right behind you,
I see the millions.
On you,
I see the glory.
From you,
I get opinions.
From you,
I get the story.

The Who Sells Out [1967]

2005-10-30T08:31:00.000-08:00

Heinz Baked Beans

KID: What's for tea, mum?

HUSBAND: What's for tea, darling?

I said, darling, what's for tea?

WOMAN: What's for tea daughter?

Heinz Baked Beans!

Odorono

She sang the best she'd ever sang
She couldn't ever sing any better
But Mister Davidson never rang
She knew he would forget her

She'd seen him there
And put herself to ransom
He had stared
He really was quite handsome

She had really looked her best
She couldn't ever look any better
But she knew she'd failed the test
She knew he would forget her

Triumphant was the way she felt
As she acknowledged the applause
Triumphant was the way she'd felt
When she saw him at the dressing room door

She was happier than she'd ever been
As he praised her for her grace
But his expression changed, she had seen
As he leant to kiss her face

It ended there
He claimed a late appoinment
She quickly turned
To hide her disappointment

Tattoo

Me and My brother were talking to each other 'bout makes a man a man?
Was it brain or brawn or the month you you were born
We just couldn't understand...I hope that like our apperance
So me and my brother borrowed we knew what we had to do
We went downstairs past the barber and gymnasium and got our arms tattooed

Welcome to me life tattoo
I'm a man now thanks to you
I expect i'll regret you but the skin man he won't get you
You'll be there when I die
Tattoo...

My dad beat cause mine said mother
But my mother naterly like it and beat my brother
Cause his tattoo was a lady in the nude
And my mother thought that was extremly rude

Welcome to me life tattoo
I'm a man now thanks to you
I expect i'll regret you but the skin man he won't get you
You'll be there when I die
Tattoo...

Now i'm older i'm tattoed all over
My wife is tattooed too
A roodie toto toto roodie toto toto
Roodie toto toto tattoo to you

I Can See For Miles

I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise
I know that have 'cause there's magic in my eyes

I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

If you think that I don't know about those little tricks you've played
And never see you when you deliberately you put things in my way

Well, here's a poke at you
You're gonna choke on it too
You're gonna lose that smile
Because of the while

I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

You took advantage of my trust in you when I was so far away
I saw you holding lots of other guys and now you've got the nerve to say

That you still want me
Well,that's as may be
But you gotta stand trial
Because of the while

I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise
I know that have 'cause there's magic in my eyes

I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

The Eiffel Tower andthe Taj Mahal are mine to see on clear days
You thought I would need a crystal ball to see right through the haze

Well, here's a poke at you
You're gonna choke on it too
You're gonna lose that smile
Because of the while

I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
and miles and miles and miles and miles

I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles

Someone's Coming

Goodnight baby,
Someone's a-comin', someone's a-comin',
Goodnight baby,
Gotta get a-runnin', gotta get a-runnin'.

Your father doesn't like me,
Told you that you couldn't see me any more,
That's why we meet in secret,
That's why we're hiding here.

Goodnight baby,
Same time tomorrow, same time tomorrow,
Goodnight baby,
See you here tomorrow, see you here tomorrow.

Your mother made you stay in,
When she saw you going out with me,
You'll say you'll take the dog out,
Then you sneak out here to me.

If your parents find you here,
You're gonna get a hiding, gonna get a hiding,
So I'll vanish, disappear,
See you here tomorrow, see you here tomorrow

A Quick One [1966]

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Boris The Spider

Look he's crawling up my wall
Black and hairy very small
now he's up above my head
Hanging by a little thread

BORIS THE SPIDER
BORIS THE SPIDER

now he's dropped onto the floor
heading for the bedroom door
maybe he's as scared as me
wheres he gone now i cant see

BORIS THE SPIDER
BORIS THE SPIDER

Creepy crawly creepy crawly
Creepy creepy crawly crawly
(repeat til it fades back into lyrics)

there he is wrapped in a ball
doesn't seem to move at all
perhaps he's dead I"ll just make sure
pick this book up off the floor

BORIS THE SPIDER
BORIS THE SPIDER

( repeat chorus)

He's come to a sticky end
Dont think he will ever mend
Never more will he crawl round
He's embedded in the ground

BORIS THE SPIDER
BORIS THE SPIDER

I Need You

Knowing
Is what people tell you
That you're thinking wrong
Embrace you,
But they really mean "So long"

You talk to them
They laugh aloud
Yet they run to you
In any crowd

Please talk to me again
I need you

We're dancing
We will come and dance near you
We want to learn
Let us come and sitar with you

Distort my ears when
The music's loud
Yet you raise your hatchet
In the yellow crowd

Please talk to me again
I need you

Knowing
Is what people tell you
That you're thinking wrong
Embrace you,
But they really mean "So long"

You talk to them
They laugh aloud
Yet they run to you
In any crowd

Please talk to me again
I need you

Whiskey Man

Whiskey Man's my friend, he's with me nearly all the time
He always joins me when I drink, and we get on just fine

Nobody has ever seen him, I'm the only one
Seemingly I must be mad, Insanity is fun
If that's the way it's done

Doctors say he's just a figment of my twisted mind
If they can't see my Whiskey Man they must be going blind

Two men dressed in white collected me two days ago
They said there's only room for one and Whiskey Man can't go

Whiskey Man will waste away if he's left on his own
I can't even ring him cause he isn't on the phone
Hasn't got a home

Life is very gloomy in this little padded cell
It's a shame there wasn't room for Whiskey Man as well

Whiskey Man's my friend,he's with me nearly all the time
He always joins me when I drink and we get on just fine
Just Fine

Don't Look Away

Don't go and hide
Yesterday you were my girlfiend
If you do
My inside goes around and around in a whirlwind

There's a stone in my shoe
So I can't catch you up
My head's in a lion's mouth
Wants to eat me up
Right here today
Don't look away
I've always been true
And I still love you
So don't look away
There's a lot you can do
To get me away
You've got to stay
Don't look away
Don't look away

I once heard you say
If I ever was down you would help me
Now my head's being chewed up
You pretend that you don't see

There's a stone in my shoe
So I can't catch you up
My head's in a lion's mouth
Wants to eat me up
Right here today
Don't look away
I've always been true
And I still love you
So don't look away
There's a lot you can do
To get me away
You've got to stay
Don't look away
Don't look away

I've always been true
And I still love you
So don't look away
There's a lot you can do
To get me away
You've got to stay
Don't look away
Don't look away
Don't look away
Don't look away
Don't look away

See My Way

Some way, some day, I'll find a way
To make you see my way

Even if you don't think like I do
You know that it's true
It's your mind that I seek

Tried so hard to make me think my point of view was bad
Although at times when you kept on I thought that I was mad

I'm glad it's goodbye
You don't have to ask why
Come back another day
Come back when you see my way
You see my way

Tried so hard to make me think my point of view was bad
Although at times when you kept on I thought that I was mad

Some way, some day, I'll find a way
To make you see my way

I'm glad it's goodbye
You don't have to ask why
Come back another day
Come back when you see my way
You see my way
You see my way

So Sad About Us

La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la

So sad about us
So sad about us
Sad that the news is out now
Sad, suppose we can't turn back now
Sad about us

So bad about us
So bad about us
Bad - never meant to break up
Bad - suppose we'll never make up
Bad about us

Apologies mean nothing
When the damage is done
But I can't switch off my loving
Like you can't switch off the sun

La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la

La la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la

So sad about us
So sad about us
Sad - never meant to break up
Sad - suppose we'll never make up
Sad about us

Happy Jack

Happy Jack wasn't old, but he was a man
He lived in the sand at the Isle of Man
The kids would all sing, he would take the wrong key
So they rode on his head on their furry donkey

The kids couldn't hurt Jack
They tried and tried and tried
They dropped things on his back
And lied and lied and lied and lied and lied

But they couldn't stop Jack, or the waters lapping
And they couldn't prevent Jack from feeling happy

But they couldn't stop Jack, or the waters lapping
And they couldn't prevent Jack from feeling happy

The kids couldn't hurt Jack
They tried and tried and tried
They dropped things on his back
And lied and lied and lied and lied and lied

But they couldn't stop Jack, or the waters lapping
And they couldn't prevnt Jack form feeling happy

(I Saw Ya!!!)

My Generation [1965]

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La La La Lies

If I'm so lost without a friend
Tell me, who's this by my side?
This girl with eyes like gems
And cool reactions to your lies
Lies
La la la la la la lies

You can't repeat what you put 'round
All the things that made me cry
You kicked me when I was down
And they hurt me all those lies
Lies
La la la la la la lies

I've got my girl and together we're strong
To laugh at you and prove you wrong

I don't insist that you feel bad
I just want to see you smile
Don't ever think you made me mad
I didn't listen to your lies
Lies
La la la la la la lies

If I'm so lost without a friend
Tell me, who's this by my side?
This girl with eyes like gems
And cool reactions to your lies
Lies
La la la la la la lies

I don't insist that you feel bad
I just want to see you smile
Don't ever think you made me mad
I didn't listen to your lies
Lies
La la la la la la lies

My Generation

PEOPLE TRY TO PUT US DOWN
(TALKIN' 'BOUT MY GENERATION)
JUST BECAUSE WE GET AROUND
(TALKIN' 'BOUT MY GENERATION)
THINGS THEY DO LOOK AWFUL COLD
(TALKIN' 'BOUT MY GENERATION)
HOPE I DIE BEFORE I GET OLD
(TALKIN' 'BOUT MY GENERATION)
THIS IS MY GENERATION
THIS IS MY GENERATION BABY
WHY DON'T YOU ALL FADE AWAY
(TALKIN' 'BOUT MY GENERATION)
DON'T TRY TO DIG WHAT WE ALL SAY
(TALKIN' 'BOUT MY GENERATION)
I'M NOT TRYING TO CAUSE A BIG SENSATION
(TALKIN' 'BOUT MY GENERATION)
I'M JUST TALKIN' 'BOUT MY GENERATION
(TALKIN' 'BOUT MY GENERATION)
THIS IS MY GENERATION
THIS IS MY GENERATION BABY

The Kids Are Alright

I don't mind, other guys dancing with my girl.
That's fine, I know them all pretty well.
And I know sometimes I must get out in the light.
Better leave her behind,
Where the kids are alright.
The kids are alright.
Sometimes, I feel i gotta get away.
Bells chime, I know I gotta get away.
And I know sometimes I must get out in the light.
Better leave her behind,
Where the kids are alright
The kids are alright.
I know if I go things would be a lot better for her.
I had things planned but her folks wouldn't let her.
That's fine, them all pretty well.
And I know sometimes I must get out in the light.
Better leave her behind
Where the kids are alright
The kids are alright.

Sometimes, I feel I gotta get away.
Bells chime, I know I gotta get away.
And I know sometimes I must get out in the light.
Better leave her behind,
Where the kids are alright.
The kids are alright.
The kids are alright.
The kids are alright.

A Legal Matter

i told you why i changed my mind
i got bored by playing with time
i know you thought you had me nailed
but i've freed my head from your garden rails

(chorus)
now its a legal matter baby
you got me on the run
its a legal matter baby
a legal matter from now on

my mind's lost in a household fog
wedding gowns and catalogs
kitchen furnishings and houses
maternity clothes and baby's trousers

(chorus)

i told you why i changed my mind
i got bored by playing with time
i know you thought you had me nailed
but i've freed my head from your garden rails

(chorus)

you ain't the first and you ain't the last
i gain and lose my women fast
i never want to make them cry
i just get bored
don't ask me why

just wanna keep doing all the dirty little things i do
and not work all day in an office just to bring my money back to you
sorry baby