 Genius Lyrics
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Pete Townshend – North Country Girl
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When you travel to the green hills of Ayr / Where the sea breaks windows on the border line / Remember me to a girl who lives there / For she once was a true love of mine / Please
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Pete Townshend – Hiding Out
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From my window, I see roads / They lead to darkness, leading home / And in the midnight of a soul's unsleeping / I hear the waterfall of women weeping / Hear the distant noise of
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Pete Townshend – Teenage Wasteland
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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 / My kids ain't gonna break
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Pete Townshend (Ft. Alfie Boe & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) – I'm One
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Every year is the same / I feel it again / I'm a loser, no chance to win / Leaves start falling / Come down is calling / Loneliness starts sinking in / But I'm one / I am one / And
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Pete Townshend – Save It for Later
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Two dozen other dirty lovers / Must be a sucker for it / Cry, cry, but I don't need my mother / Just hold my hand while I come to a decision on it / Sooner or later / Your legs
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Pete Townshend – Empty Glass
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EMPTY GLASS / Why was I born today / Life is useless like Ecclesiastes say / I never had a chance / But opportunity's now in my hands / I stand with my guitar / All I need's a
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Pete Townshend (Ft. Ronnie Lane) – Misunderstood
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Just wanna be misunderstood / Wanna be feared in my neighborhood / Just wanna be a moody man / Say things that nobody can understand / I wanna be obscure and oblique / Inscrutable
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Pete Townshend – Guantanamo
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Originally released as a new single to pair with Pete Townshend’s best hits album, a new version of the song was recorded by The Who under the name “Ball and Chain”, and was
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Pete Townshend – Communication
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Comma comma-comma comma-comma comma-ca-ca-ca-ca / Commai comma-commai comma-commai comma-ca-ca-ca-ca / Commu-a commu-a commu-a commun / Communicate / Selbstdarstellung / Gay Talese
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Pete Townshend – Prelude
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Sometimes walking through the streets of this city / I see all the faces of the winners and the losers / Oh why can't I see a change, just one sign? / Before I say goodbye / Before
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Pete Townshend – Let's See Action
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Let's see action. Let's see people / Let's see freedom. Let's see who cares / Take me with you. When you leave me / And my shell behind us there / I have learned it. Known who
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Pete Townshend – Sleeping Dog
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Sleeping dog by the open fire / You're sleeping your life away / You don't know how far you've got to go / Or the trouble that you'll have to face / Yet all I can do is love you
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Pete Townshend – Give Blood
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[Verse 1] / Give blood / But you may find that blood is not enough / Give blood / And there are some who'll say it's not enough / Give blood / But don't expect to ever see reward
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Pete Townshend – Pure and Easy
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[Intro] / 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 as forever we die / [
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Pete Townshend – White City Fighting
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The White City, that's a joke of a name / It's a black, violent place if I remember the game / I couldn't wait to get out but I love to go home / To remember the White City
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Pete Townshend – Rough Boys
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Tough boys / Running the streets / Come a little closer / Rough toys / Under the sheets / Nobody knows her / Rough boys / Don't walk away / I very nearly missed you / Tough boys
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Pete Townshend – Annie
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Old oaks stand tall, Annie / Seen the world grow small, Annie / But when they fall, Annie / Where will we be? / Winter has come, Annie / No strength in the sun, Annie / And when it
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Pete Townshend – Rough Boys
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Tough boys / Running the streets / Come a little closer / Rough toys / Under the sheets / Nobody knows her / Rough boys / Don't walk away / I very nearly missed you / Tough boys
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Pete Townshend – Face Dances Part Two
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I watch you sit and twitching / With a match between your teeth / You seem to have a knack of moving it / It's in time to the beat / Face dances tonight / Fate chances moonlight
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Pete Townshend – Mary
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Mary, you are everything a man could want / And I want you, Mary / Did you know when you pushed me once away from you / The thing I knew grew inside me / People are dancing for you
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Pete Townshend – Slit Skirts
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SLIT SKIRTS / I was just thirty-four years old and I was still wandering in a haze / I was wondering why everyone I met seemed like they were / Lost in a maze / I don't know why I
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Pete Townshend – The Ferryman
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The river is always flowing / Relentless towards the costal tides / It travels down to the great ocean / While most of us simply watch from the water side / The water becomes
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Pete Townshend – Zelda
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When you're at the movie / Don't pretend you're groovy / Don't be swayed and shell shocked / Hinder here the band out / There is only waving / Men's are misbehaving / Jackie's on
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Pete Townshend – Time Is Passing
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I'm playing my guitar while my sister bangs the jar / The glass sets up a sound like people laughing / It's going to my brain and it's easing all my pain / I must hear this sound
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Pete Townshend – Let My Love Open the Door
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From Empty Glass (1984). This single was Pete Townshend’s only solo American Top 10 hit.
Pete follows the Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba (1894-1969) and this song appears
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Pete Townshend – Can't Outrun The Truth
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This lockdown is bringing me down / My mind's gone underground / Though I crawl from room to room / I can't leave myself behind / I can't outrun the truth / I won't turn to face it
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Pete Townshend (Ft. Ronnie Lane) – Evolution
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Well, once I was a stone, many years ago / Into a pool was thrown, many years ago / Time went by and the pool ran dry / Excavated was I, and tempered and beat in the fiery heat
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Pete Townshend – A Friend Is a Friend
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When eyes meet in silence / A pact can be made / A lifelong alliance / That won't be betrayed / Won't be betrayed / Be friendly / Be friendly now / Be friedly / A friend is a
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Pete Townshend – Exquisitely Bored
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The tissue box is empty / No coffee for my cream / Dogs howl in the alley / Crazy women scream / Some kids shout from their pick up truck / They're stoned on life and beer / Fifty
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Pete Townshend – Cookin'
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I didn't find out I was a coward till I ran away / Didn't think I was a hypocrite till I tried to pray / Didn't realize I was lost till I started lookin' / I didn't know how much I
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Pete Townshend – English Boy
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[Spoken Intro: Ruth Streeting] / Hello, Ruth Streeting here once again with "Streeting's Street", where you get the word straight from the street. This is the show that dishes the
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Pete Townshend – Stop Hurting People
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A love born once must soon be born again / A spark that burned, then died, leaving cinders to be fanned / By the wind and thrown to flame / Flames like tongues impassioned in a
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Pete Townshend (Ft. Chyna & Deborah Conway) – All Shall Be Well
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HOGARTH / You can wake deep in the night / And know that out of sight / A dangerous passion grows / A force you can't oppose / VIXEN and HOGARTH / In the safety of your bed / You
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Pete Townshend – I Am an Animal
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I was always here in the silence / But I was never under your eye / Gather up your love in some wiseness / For every memory shall always survive / And you will see me / I am an
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Pete Townshend – Gonna Get Ya
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I'm walking - Stand still / Not running - Sit tight / Soft talking - I'm thrilled / Not gunning - By your light / Not flying - Lady / I'm falling - This way / I'm not crying
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Pete Townshend – The Sea Refuses No River
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Track 2 on All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes. Pete Townshend have said that he have always felt connected to the sea. The song was written when he was going trough
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Kunt And The Gang – Pete Townshend from The Who
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Boo-hoo! / You were a guitarist of some great repute / But now that's in dispute, since you were caught playing the pink flute / In the course of research, your good name you did
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Pete Townshend – No Way Out (However Much I Booze)
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I watch myself on TV, I'm a faker, a paper clown / It's clear to all my friends that I habitually lie / I just bring them down / I claim proneness to exaggeration / But the truth
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Pete Townshend – Vivienne
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Townshend / Vivienne, I could have loved you / Vivienne, you went too far / Faker, that's what I been / With my make up and my false address / Shake up, that's what I seen / I was
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