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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

Don't cry, don't raise your eye
It's only teenage wasteland

Sally, take my hand
We'll travel south, 'cross land
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 yeah, teenage wasteland
They're all wasted

Bargain

I'd gladly lose me to find you
I'd gladly give up all I have
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 lookin' round
I look at my face in the mirror
I know I'm worth nothing without you
And like one and one don't make 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
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

Love Ain't For Keeping

Layin' on my back in newly mown grass
Rain is coming down but I know the clouds will pass
You bring me tea
Say the babe's a-sleepin'

Lay down beside me
Love ain't for keepin'

Black ash from the foundry hangs like a hood
But the air is perfumed by the burning of the wood
The seeds are bursting
The springs a-seeping

Lay down, my darling
Love ain't for keepin'
Lay down beside me
Love ain't for keepin'

Lay down beside me
Love ain't for keepin'
Lay down, my darling
Love ain't for keepin'

My Wife

My wife's in jeopardy
Murdered in cold blood is what I'm gonna be
I ain't been home since Friday night and now my wife is comin' 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 sometime so I can get to run some more, yeah!

She's comin'...

Song Is Over

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'm gonna sing out

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

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

The 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
Excepting one 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 hidden 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

I get a little tired of having to say: Do you come here often?
When I look in your eyes and see the harmony there I feel my heartache soften
I'm gettin' in tune, right in tune,
I'm in tune, and I'm gonna tune
Right in on you

I got it all here in my head
There's nothing more needs to be said
I'm just banging on my old piano
I'm gettin' in tune to the straight and narrow
I'm gettin' in tune to the straight and narrow
You know, I'm gettin' in tune to 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

Baby, with you...

I got it all here in my head
There's nothing more needs to be said
I'm just banging on my old piano
I'm gettin' in tune to the straight and narrow...

Going Mobile

I'm goin' home, and when I want to go home I'm goin' mobile
Well, I'm gonna find a home on wheels, see how it feels goin' mobile
Keep me movin'

I can pull up by the kerb, I can make it on the road goin' mobile
I can stop in any street, invitin' people that we'd meet, goin' mobile
Keep me movin'

Out in the woods or in the city
It's all the same to me
When I'm drivin' free the world's my home
When I'm mobile
Hee-hoo, beep beep

Play the tape machine, making toast and tea when I'm mobile
Well, I can lay in bed with only highway ahead when I'm mobile
Keep me movin'

Keep me movin', over fifty
Keep me groovin', just a hippy gypsy
Come on, move now, movin'
Keep me movin', yeah

Keep me movin' movin' movin', yeah, movin', yeah
Mobile mobile mobile ...

I don't care about pollution
I'm an air-conditioned gypsy
That's my solution
Watch the police and the tax-man miss me
I'm mobile
Wheee yeah, hi-hi
Mobile mobile mobile, yeah

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
Mmmm...

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 were all flown in the last 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!

I'll move myself and my fam'ly aside,
If we happen to be left half alive.
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky,
Tho' I know that the hypnotised never lie.

Nothing in the street
Looks any different to me.
And the slogans are replaced by and by.
And the parting on the left
Is 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!
Yeaaah ...

Meet the new boss,
Same as the old boss!

All titles © Fabulous Music except 'My Wife': © Whistle Rhymes

BONUS TRACKS:

Pure And Easy

There once was a note, pure and easy
Playing so free like a breath rippling by
The note is eternal, I hear it, it sees me
Forever we blend and 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
Then 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 lives

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
When 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 wall
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 that 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!

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 and milk and honey flows
The world begins behind your neighbor's wall

It all looks fine to the naked eye
But it don't really happen that way at all, na na no
Don't happen that way at all

You hold the gun and I hold the wound
And we stand looking in each other's 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, 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 happen that way at all

I Don't Even Know Myself

There's nothing in the way I walk
That could tell you where I'm going
There's nothing in the words I speak
That can betray anything I'm knowing
Don't think about the way I dress
You can fit me on a labeled shelf

Don't pretend that you know me
'Cause I don't even know myself
Ooh, I don't know myself

I don't mind if you try once in a while
And I don't mind if I cry once in a while
The doors aren't shut as tight as they might seem
And I'm just tryin' to fight my way out of this dream

Don't listen to the words I say
Weighing up if I'm enlightened
Don't shiver as you pass me by
'Cause mister, I'm the one who's frightened
The police just came and left
They wanted me and no one else

Don't pretend that you know me
'Cause I don't even know myself
I said I don't know myself

I don't mind if you try once in a while
And I don't mind if I cry once in a while
The doors aren't shut as tight as they might seem
And I'm just tryin' to fight my way out of this dream

Do you remember me?
I don't remember you
Do you still love me?
You know I think you do
I have been gone and some prison warden knows my scream
I'm just trying to fight my way out of this dream, yeah!

There's only five who know my real name
And my mother don't believe they know it
What she called me is the way I'm staying
And no one will ever blow it
Come on all of you big boys
Come on all of you elves

Don't pretend that you know me
'Cause I don't even know myself
I said I don't know myself

I don't mind if you try once in a while
And I don't mind if I cry once in a while