Cover art for Communication by Pete Townshend
Jun. 14, 19821 viewer

Communication Lyrics

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
Ronald Rocking
Euthanasia

Use the words like flowing river touches
Embraces parting hard steel surfaces revealing pages
Beneath the water skin broken like ice flows
Smashed by iron bows on the back of a whale

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

Selbstarstellung
Open hearted
Soon forgotten
But never parted

Com com communicate
Communication
Communicate communicate
Via satellite or solid state
Never never hesitate
Communicate communicate
Communicate communicate
Never never hesitate

Reaching, leaning, scratching vainly
Faces dancing, locked lipped, between thigh secret
Briolette tears drip from frozen masks
As all those death-throe questions don't get asked

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
Communicate

Communicate communicate
Via satellite or solid state
Never never hesitate
Communicate communicate
Communicate communicate
Never never hesitate

Communicate
Never hesitate
Never never hesitate
Communicate communicate
Yeah
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

Communication
Communication
Communication
Communication

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June 14, 1982
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