Artist: The Who Album: Who's Last {1984}

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
I 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
And 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
Talkin' bout my generation - talkin' bout my generation

My generation
This is my generation

Why don't you all fade away - talkin' bout my generation
Don't try to dig what we all say - talkin' bout my generation
Not trying to cause a big sensation - talkin' bout my generation
Talkin' bout my generation - talkin' bout my generation

My generation, this is my generation, baby

Talkin' about it

Talkin' about it, this is my generation
This is my generation, this is my generation

Got a feeling inside - can't explain
It's a certain kind - can't explain
I feel hot and cold - can't explain
Yeah, down in my soul, yeah - can't explain
I said - can't explain
I'm feeling good now, yeah, but - can't explain

Dizzy in the head and I'm feeling bad
The things you've said have got me real mad
Gettin' funny dreams again and again
I know what it means, but

Can't explain, I think it's love
Try to say it to you when I feel blue
But I can't explain - can't explain
Yeah, hear what I'm saying, girl

Dizzy in the head and I'm feeling bad
The things you've said have got me real mad
Gettin' funny dreams again and again
I know what it means, but

Can't explain, I think it's love
Try to say it to you when I feel blue
But I can't explain - can't explain
Forgive me one more time, now

I said I can't explain, yeah
Drive me out of my mind
I'm the worrying kind, yeah
I said I can't explain


Thank you, we'd like to carry on

You think we look pretty good together
You think my shoes are made of leather
But I'm a substitute for another guy
I look pretty tall but my heels are high
The simple things you see are all complicated
Look bloody young, but I'm just back-dated, yeah

Substitute your lies for fact
I see right through your plastic mac
I look all white but my dad was black
My fine looking suit is really made out of sack

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth
The north side of my town faced east and the east was facing south
Now you dare to look me in the eye
Those crocodile tears are what you cry
It's a genuine problem, you won't try
To work it out at all you just pass it by, pass it by

Substitute me for him
Substitute my coke for gin
Substitute you for my mum
At least I'll get my washing done

Yeah, I'm a substitute for another guy
I look pretty tall but my heels are high
The simple things you see are all complicated
Look pretty young, but I'm just back-dated, yeah

Substitute me for him
Substitute my coke for gin
Substitute you for my mum
At least I'll get my washing done

I substitute your lies for fact
I see right through your plastic mac
I look all white but my dad was black
My fine looking suit is really made out of sack

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

Out here in the fields
I fight for my meals
Get my back into my living
Don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven
No, no, no, no, no, no

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

Ooo, 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, oh yeah, it's only teenage wasteland
Teenage wasteland, oh yeah, it's only teenage wasteland
They're all wasted

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
Where's he gone now, I can't see
Boris the spider
Boris the spider

Creepy, crawly, creepy, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly

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

Creepy, crawly, creepy, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly

He's come to a sticky end
Don't think he will ever mend
Never more will he crawl round
He's embedded in the ground
Boris the spider
Boris the spider

Who are you - who, who, who, who
Who are you - who, who, who, who
Who are you - who, who, who, who
Who are you - who, who, who, who

I woke in a Soho doorway, policeman knew my name
He said, "You can go sleep at home tonight if you can get up and walk away."
I staggered back to the underground and the breeze blew back my hair
I remember throwin' punches around and preachin' from my chair

Who are you - who are you, who, who, who, who
Come on, tell me, who are you - who are you, who, who, who, who
Cos I really wanna know - who are you, who, who, who, who
Oh, who the fuck are you - who are you, who, who, who, who

I took the tube back out of town back to the Rollin' Pin
I felt a little like a dying clown with a streak of Rin Tin Tin
I stepped back and I hiccupped and looked back on my busy day
Eleven hours in the Tin Pan, God, there's got to be another way

Well, who are you - who are you, who, who, who, who
Oh, I really wanna know - who are you, who, who, who, who
Tell me, tell me, who are you - who are you, who, who, who, who
Cos I really wanna know - who are you, who, who, who, who

Who, who are you

Who are you - who, who, who, who
Who are you - who, who, who, who
Who are you - who, who, who, who
Who are you - who, who, who, who
I really wanna know - who are you, who, who, who, who
I really wanna know - who are you, who, who, who, who
Tell me, tell me, who are you - who are you, who, who, who, who
Cos I really wanna know - who are you, who, who, who, who

I know there's a place you walked where love falls from the trees
My heart is like a broken cup, I only feel right on my knees
I spit out like a sewer hole and still receive your kiss
How can I measure up to anyone now after such a love as this

Well, who are you - who are you, who, who, who, who
Tell me, tell me, who are you - who are you, who, who, who, who
Cos I really wanna know - who are you, who, who, who, who
Oh, who the fuck are you - who are you, who, who, who, who
Tell me who are you - who are you, who, who, who, who
Cos I really wanna know - who are you, who, who, who, who
Tell me, tell me, who are you - who are you, who, who, who, who
Cos I really wanna know - who are you - who
I really wanna know, I really wanna know
Come on tell me, who are you, are you, you, who are you

Ever since I was a young boy I've played the silver ball
From Soho down to Brighton, I must've played 'em all
But I ain't seen nothing like him in any amusement hall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball

He stands like a statue, becomes part of the machine
Feeling all the bumpers, always playing clean
Plays by intuition, the digit counters fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball

He's a pinball wizard, has to be a twist
A pinball wizard's, got such a supple wrist

How do you think he does it - I don't know
What makes him so good

Well, he ain't got no distractions, can't hear no buzzers and bells
See no lights a-flashin', plays by sense of smell
Always gets the replay, never tilts at all
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball

Thought I was the Bally table king
But I just handed my pinball crown to him

Even on my favorite table he can beat my best
His disciples lead him in and he just does the rest
He's got crazy flipper fingers, never seen him fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball

See me, feel me, touch me, heal me
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me
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 mountain, 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

Listening to you I get the music, gazing at you I get the heat
Following you I climb the mountain, 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

Yeah, listening to you I get the music, gazing at you I get the heat
Following you I climb the mountain, 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

Everybody
Listening to you I get the music, gazing at you I get the heat
Following you I climb the mountain, 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


Yourselves, Cleveland

Only love can make it rain
The way the beach is kissed by the sea
Only love can make it rain
Like the sweat of lovers laying in the fields

Love, reign o'er me
Love, reign o'er me, reign o'er me

Only love can bring the rain
That makes you yearn to the sky
Only love can bring the rain
That falls like tears from on high

Love, reign o'er me, reign over me, over me, o'er me, whoa yeah
Love, reign o'er me, reign o'er me

On the dry and dusty road
The nights we spend apart alone
I need to get back home to cool, cool rain

The night is hot and black as ink
I can't sleep and I lay and I think
Oh God, I need a drink of cool, cool rain

Love, reign o'er me, reign over me, over me, over me, oh yeah
Love, reign o'er me, reign o'er me
Love reign over me


One of those nights

Down at the Astoria the scene was changin'
Bingo and rock were pushing out X-rating
We were the first band to vomit in the bar
Find the distance to the stage too far
Meanwhile it's getting late at ten o'clock
Rock is dead they say - long live rock

Long live rock - I need it every night
Long live rock - come on and join the line
Long live rock, be it dead or alive

People walk in sideways, pretending that they're leaving
We put on our makeup, work out all the lead-ins
Jack is in the alley selling tickets made in Hong Kong
Promoter's in the pay-box wondering where the fuck the band's gone
Back at the pub, the govenor stops the clock
Rock is dead, so they say - long live rock

Long live rock - I need it every night, nearly every night
Long live rock - come on and join the line
Long live rock, be it dead or alive

Landslide, rocks are falling
Falling down round our very heads
We tried but you were yawning
Look again, rock is dead
Rock is dead, rock is dead

Long live rock
Long live rock - I need it every night
Long live rock - come on and join the line
Long live rock, be it dead or alive

Place is really jumping to the Hi-Watt amps
A twenty-inch cymbal fell and cut the lamps
In the blackout they dance right into the aisle
When the doors flew open even the promoter smiled
Someone takes his pants off and the rafters knock
Rock is dead they say - long live rock
Ah, the pulse is racing

Long live rock - I need it every night
Long live rock - come on and join the line
Long live rock, be it dead or alive

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
They 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
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again, no, no

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
History ain't changed
Cos the banners, they are 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
Cos then I'll get on my knees and I'll pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again, no, no, no, no, no

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

There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
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
Get up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and I'll pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again, no, no, no, no, no
Don't you get fooled again, don't let 'em fool ya

Yeaaah
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

Don't get fooled, don't you get fooled again
Don't let 'em fool ya, no, no, no, no, no
Don't you get fooled again, no, no - ooh, yeah


Thank you
Kenny Jones on the drums

It's our last concert in the USA, thank you
Glad it was here, thank you

Here's a number from Quadrophenia - Dr. Jimmy


Laugh and say I'm green, I've seen things you've never seen
Talk behind my back, I'm off the beaten track
I'll take on anyone, ain't scared of a bloody nose
Drink till I drop down with one eye on my clothes

What is it, I'll take it
Who is she, I'll rape it
Got a bet there, I'll meet it
Gettin' high, you can't beat it

Doctor Jimmy and mister Jim
When I'm pilled you don't notice him
He only comes out when I drink my gin

You say she's a virgin but I'm gonna be the first in
Her fellah's gonna kill me, oh fucking will he
I'm seeing the double, don't miss me if you can
There's gonna be trouble when she chooses her man

What is it, I'll take it
Who is she, I'll rape it
Got a bet there, I'll meet it
Gettin' high, you can't beat it

Doctor Jimmy and mister Jim
When I'm pilled you don't notice him
He only comes out when I drink my gin

Is it me for a moment, the stars are falling
The heat is rising, the past is calling
Is it me for a moment, the stars are falling
The heat is rising, the past is calling

I'm going back soon, home to get the baboon
Who cut up my eye, tore up my Levis
I'm feeling restless, bring another score around
Maybe something stronger could really hold me down

What is it, I'll take it
Who is she, I'll rape it
Got a bet there, I'll meet it
Gettin' high, you can't beat it

I hear ya now


Every day I get in the queue - too much, the Magic Bus
To get on the bus that takes me to you - too much, the Magic Bus
I'm so nervous, I just sit and smile - too much, the Magic Bus
Your house is only another mile - too much, the Magic Bus
Thank you, driver, for getting me here - too much, the Magic Bus
You'll be an inspector, have no fear - too much, the Magic Bus
I don't want to cause no fuss - too much, the Magic Bus
But can I buy your Magic Bus - too much, the Magic Bus
No, you can't have it

Thruppence and sixpence every day
Just to drive to my baby
Thruppence and sixpence each day
Cos I drive my baby every way

Cos I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it
I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it
I said you can't have it

Hey mister, lets make a deal
Hey mister - who me

Said I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it
I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it
I said you can't have it

You can't have it, but you can buy it
If you wanna buy the Magic Bus, you gotta pay me in cash - cash

Give me a hundred, I won't take under
I want one hundred English pounds
Let me tell ya how she goes, I wanna tell you how she go
I wanna tell you how she make ya feel
She goes, she goes, you know she goes, she goes
She goes like thunder, like thunder - you like thunder

How does it feel, how does it feel
How does it feel, how does it feel, how does it feel
Thunder, like thunder

Yeah, I'm a gonna raise a fuss, I'm a gonna raise a holler
Bout workin' all summer just to try to earn a dollar
Well, I to call my baby, get off for a day
The boss says, "No dice, son, you gotta work a late."  
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do
There ain't no cure for the summertime blues 

Yeah, my mom and papa told me, "Son you gotta earn some money
If you want to use the car to go riding next Sunday."
Well I didn't go to work, I told the boss I was sick 
He said, "You can't use the car cos you didn't work a late."  
Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do
There ain't no cure for the summertime blues 

Gonna take two weeks, gonna have a fine vacation
Gonna take my problem to the United Nations
Well, I went to my congressman, he said, quote
"I'd like to help you son but you're too young to vote."  
Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do
There ain't no cure for the summertime blues

Well, shake it up baby, now - shake it up, baby
Twist and shout - twist and shout
Come on, come on, come on, come on baby, now - come on baby
Come on and work it on out - work it on out
You know you look so good - look so good
You know you look so fine - look so fine
Come on and twist a little closer, now - twist a little closer
And let me know that you're mine - know that you're mine

Well, shake it up baby, now - shake it up, baby
Twist and shout - twist and shout
Come on, come on, come on, come on baby, now - come on baby
Come on and work it on out - work it on out
You know you look so good - look so good
You know you look so fine - look so fine
Come on and twist a little closer, now - twist a little closer
And let me know that you're mine - know that you're mine

Well, shake it up baby, now - shake it up, baby
Twist and shout - twist and shout
Come on, come on, come on, come on baby, now - come on baby
Come on and work it on out - work it on out
You know you twist, little girl - twist, little girl
You know you twist so fine - twist so fine
Come on and twist a little closer, now - twist a little closer
And let me know that you're mine - know that you're mine

Well shake it, shake it, shake it, baby, now - shake it up, baby
Well shake it, shake it, shake it, baby, now - shake it up, baby
Well shake it, shake it, shake it, baby, now - shake it up, baby