Artist: The Who Album: Who's Next {1971}

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
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

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

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 call that a bargain, the best I ever had
The best I ever had

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

I call that a bargain, the best I ever had
The best I ever had

Layin' on my back in the 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 keeping

Black ash from the foundry hangs like a hood
But the air is perfumed by the burning firewood
The seeds are bursting, the spring a-seeping
Lay down my darling, love ain't for keeping
Lay down beside me, love ain't for keeping

Lay down beside me, love ain't for keeping
Lay down my darling, love ain't for keeping

My life'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 coming after me

Give me police protection, gonna buy a gun
So I can look after number one
Give me a bodyguard
A back 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, yeah

She's comin', she's comin'
She's comin', she's comin'
She's comin', she's comin'
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'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
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
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

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

I'm singing this note cos 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
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 eyes and see the harmonies and the heartaches soften
I'm getting 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 to the straight and narrow
Getting in tune to the straight and narrow
I'm getting in tune to the straight and narrow
I'm getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Yeah, I'm getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Getting in tune to the straight and narrow

I'm singing this note cos 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 to the straight and narrow

Getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Getting in tune to the straight and narrow
I'm a getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Yeah, I'm a getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Yeah, I'm getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Yeah, getting in tune to the straight and narrow, yeah
Getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Yeah, I'm a getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Getting in tune to the straight and narrow
Getting in tune to the straight and narrow

I'm goin' home and when I wanna go home
I'm goin' mobile
Well, I'm gonna find a home and we'll see how it feels
Goin' mobile
Keep me movin'

I can pull up by the curb, I can make it on the road
Goin' mobile
I can stop in any street and talk with people that we 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, make the 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 50
Keep me groovin' - just a hippie gypsy
Come on move now, movin'
Keep me movin', yeah

Keep me movin', movin', movin', yeah
Movin', Yeah
Mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, 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, ooh, yeah, hee, hee
Mobile, mobile, mobile yeah

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

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

Yeaaah
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Eh

There once was a note, pure and easy
Playing so free like a breathe rippling by
The note is eternal, I hear it, it sees me
Forever we blend it, 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 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
And a child flew past me riding in a star
Gas on a hillside, oil in a tea cup
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
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, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen

Put away your girlie magazines

Ah, baby don't you do it, don't do it, baby
Don't ya break my heart, please don't do it, baby
Don't ya break my heart, please don't ya do it, baby

Well I sacrifice to make laughter, I kept nothin' for myself
Now you wanna leave me, baby, for the love of someone else
Well I try to do my best
Yeah, I try to do my best
Don't ya do it, don't do it, baby
Don't ya break my heart, please don't ya do it, baby
Don't ya do it, please don't ya do it, baby 

My biggest mistake was lovin' you too much and lettin' you know
Oh, now you got me where you want me, baby, you gonna let me go
I try to do my best
Yeah, I try to do my best
Don't do it, baby

I go down to the river and there I'll be
I'm gonna jump right in, baby, if you don't see about me
I try to do my best
Yeah, I try to do my best

Open up your heart, can't you see I need you
Open up your heart, babe, can't you see I love you
Yeah, don't ya do it, please don't ya do it, baby
Yeah, don't ya do it, please don't do it, baby
Don't you break my heart, now
Don't you break my heart, now
Don't ya do it, now

Oh yeah, baby, baby, baby, baby, don't ya do it
Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, babe, break my heart
Please don't do it, baby
Don't ya do it, don't ya break my heart, now
Don't ya break my heart, now
Don't ya break my heart, now
Don't ya break my heart, now, woo
Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, please
Everybody, everybody, everybody come on, now, woo
Can't ya see I need ya
can't you see I love ya, need ya
Said don't ya do it, don't break my heart
Yeah don't ya do it, don't ya break my heart
Don't break my heart, don't do it, babe

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 flow
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
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
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

The foreman over there hates the gang
Poor people on the farms get it so rough
The truck driver drives like a devil
The policemen, they're acting so tough

They need water - good, good water
We need water
And I'm sure there ain't one of us here
Who'd say no to somebody's daughter
No, no, no, no

Samson seems sort of sweaty
(???)
Captain of a ship is swimming
(???)
We need water - good, good water
We need water
And maybe somebody's daughter

Come on, gimme good water
Come on, gimme good water
Come on, gimme good water
Please don't refuse me mister
I seen your daughter at the oasis and I'm beginning to blister

Our Chevrolet just made steam
Your crop is laying foul
My grass skirt's lost its green
I'm alive but I don't know how
We need water - good, good water
We need water
And maybe somebody's daughter

Gimme good water

Indian Lake is burning', New York's skyline is hazy
The River Thames is turning dry, the whole world is a blazin'
We need water - good, good water
We need water
And maybe somebody's daughter

Ah, give me what I need
Water, water, water, water, water, water

Gimme water, water, water, water
And I'm sure there ain't one of us here
Who'd say no to somebody's daughter
Oh, no

I think these hands have felt a lot
I don't know, what have I touched
I think these eyes have seen a lot
I don't know, maybe they've seen too much
I think this brain has thought a lot
Searchin', trying to find a crutch
I think this heart has bled once too often
This time it's bled a bit too much

Too much of anything is too much for me
Too much and everything gets too much for me

I can't remember before '49
But I know that '48 was there
My ears let in what I should speak out
Hmm, mmm, hmm, there's something in the air
I'm overloaded on my way
Bye, bye - you better keep in touch
I think your ears hear a whole lot of music
And like me you've heard a bit too much

Too much of anything is too much for me
Too much and everything gets too much for me

I think these hands have felt a lot
I don't know, what have I touched
I think these eyes have seen a lot
I don't know, maybe they've seen too much
I think this brain has thought a lot
Searchin', I try to find a crutch
I think this heart has bled once too often
This time it's bled a bit too much

Too much of anything is too much for me
Too much and everything gets too much for me

There's nothing in the way I walk
That can 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
Cos 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 trying 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
Cos 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
Cos 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 trying 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
My mother don't believe they know it
What she calls me is the way I'm staying
And no one'll ever throw it 
Come on all of you big boys, come on all of you elves
Don't pretend that you know me
Cos 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

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