I AM AN ANIMAL

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 animal
My teeth are sharp and my mouth is full
And the passion is so strong
When I'm alone, loneliness will change me

I am a vegetable
I get my body badly pulled
I'm rooted to the spot
Nothing will rearrange me

I'm looking back and I can't see the past
Anymore so, hazy
I'm on a track and I'm traveling so fast
Oh for sure I'm crazy

I am a human being
I can't believe all the things I'm seeing
I've nowhere to hide anymore
I'm losing my way

I am an angel
I booked in here I came straight from hell
I don't know how to lie anymore
I'm bozzing to pray

I'm looking back and I can't see the past
Anymore so, hazy
I'm on a track and I'm traveling so fast
Oh for sure I'm crazy

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 will be immersed
Queen of the fucking Universe
And I don't know what I have anymore
Anymore than you do

I am a nothing king
Been right around on a golden ring
I don't know where you are anymore
I've got no clue

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 animal.

© 1980 EEL PIE PUBLISHING and TOWSER TUNES INC-BMI "WDK"©98

UNEASY STREET

On Easy Street last night
The devil offered me a deal
He said, come on and take what you'd like,
   And later tell me how you feel
So I looked up all around
On this uneasy street
I'd have been happy if I had found
something simple to eat
But just as he asked me Maureen walked past
I said, Mr. Devil, she is so refined.
   He said, I tricked you little brother
I tricked you little brother
   That tricky little mother is mine.

  I wish I was as good as I look
I wish I was that good
I wish I was as good as I look
  Wish I could be that good

It was too late for me
I'd just set eyes on my heart's ideal
I was in ecstasy I was up and ready to steal
So I looked up all around on this uneasy street
I kept on looking until I found the prints of my beloved's feet
I kept up the chase 'till I looked right in her face
I said, My darling you have angel's eyes
She said to this little brother
You knew little brother
This is just his still mother's disguise
  I wish I was as good as I look
I wish I was that good
  I wish I was as good as I look wish I could be that good

  I just could not believe someone so beautiful could not be pure
I prayed for some reprieve I had to save her from the Devil's lure
But I guess the Devil was bound to win
On this uneasy street
I had to know what was beneath her skin
I had to face up to the Devil's heat
But I didn't have to ask
she just took off her mask
In a second it was clear to see
He said, I tricked you little brother
I tricked you little brother
This tricky little mother...is me.
Is me
Is me

I wish I was as good as I look I wish I was that good
I wish I was as good as I look wish I could be that good
I tricked you little brother.
  yeah yeah
I tricked you little brother

I stood at the door beside her
But she wouldn't let me pass
I was such a bore and I lied to her
I said I didn't really want her ass
I went away in the mud and rain
The gang became snide and laughed
I was slayed,  but I smiled and the pain
Began to subside at last

And when I got back to my hotel
I wondered if the thunder meant I'd landed in hell
And on the forecourt I slipped and fell
I cracked my stupid head and I heard a bell
I thought, hey

Somebody saved me, it happened again
Somebody saved me, I thank you my friend
Somebody saved me, from a fate worse than heaven
'Cause if I'd had her for just an hour
I'd have wanted her forever
Somebody saved me

You would have thought that I'd have learned
Twenty years ago or more
A beautiful girl raised her mouth and yearned
But I didn't know what lips were for
I ran away in the mud and rain
The weather here is never too bright
She'd had an affray with her man and came
For solace and the means to fight

She finally bored with seducing me
And took up with some geezer from the Ealing scene
It nearly killed him like it would've killed me
When her original man snapped his fingers and she obeyed, she obeyed

But somebody saved me, it happened again
Somebody saved me, I thank you my friend
Somebody saved me, from a fate worse than heaven
'Cause if I'd had her for just an hour
I'd have wanted her forever

I don't know about guardian angels
All I know about is staying alive
I can't shout about spiritual labels
When little ones die and big ones thrive

All I know is that I've been making it
And there've been times that I didn't deserve to
Every show there's been more faking it
But right at the point of no return

Somebody saves me, again and again
Somebody saves me, I thank you my friend
Somebody saves me, from a fate worse than heaven
'Cause if I blew it for a single moment
I'd blow it forever
But somebody saves me

I took up the connection once
Made me feel quite aloof
I never could queue to collect my lunch
While I was pursuing the truth
So I left my folks in the mud and rain
It always rains in Sunnyside Road
I lived hippie jokes, getting stoned insane
'Till the rain looked just like snow

But there was a soul in whom I could depend
He worked himself crazy while I laid in bed
I never leaned on a person like I leaned right then
And when I finally woke up clean
My friend was dead, stone dead

Somebody saved me, it happened again
Somebody saved me, I thank you my friend
Somebody saved me, I ain't ready for heaven
'Cause if I'd seen you for a second I'd have wanted to see you forever
Somebody saved me
Somebody saved me

©1982 Eel Pie Publishing and Towser Tunes Inc,-BMI

THE SEA (God) REFUSES NO RIVER(us)

I remember being richer than a king
The minutes of the day were golden
I recall that when the joint passed round
My body felt a little colder
But now I'm like a sewer channel - running lime and scag
Let me get at the master panel - let me at my stack

The sea refuses no river
And right now this river's banks are blown
The sea refuses no river
Whether stinking and rank
Or red from the tank
Whether pure as a spring
There's no damned thing stops the poem
The sea refuses no river
And this river is homeward flowing

I have seen a trace of strain
In other's eyes not spoken
I must admit that I enjoyed their pain
But this time it's me that's broken
I demand for you and His
This must be the time
When we decide what freedom is
Turn water into wine

For the sea refuses no river
We're polluted now but in our hearts still clean
The sea refuses no river
We tried not to age
But time had it's rage
We're washed over stones
From babes into clones of the mean
The sea won't refuse this muddy river
Nor deny the sulphurous stream

There was a fool in a dressing robe
Riding out the twilight hour
Lonely and cold in an empty home
Trying to assess his power
But now he's like a stream in flood
Swollen by the storm
He doesn't care if he sheds his blood
Let him be reborn

For the sea refuses no river
Remember that, when the beggar buys a round
The sea refuses no river
And rain fills the gutters
No time for stutters
This is our chance
To sing and to dance and to clown
The sea refuses no river
And rivers were sprung to drown

The sea refuses no river
No pecking code respected for the damned
The sea refuses no river
Whether starving or ill
Or strung on some pill
Just 'cos you own the land
There's no unique hand plugs the dam
The sea refuses no river
And the river is where I am
The river is where I am.

A FRIEND IS A FRIEND

When eyes meet in silence 
A pact can be made
A life-long alliance
That won't be betrayed
Be friendly, befriend me now
Be friendly

A friend is a friend
Nothing can change that
Arguments, squabbles
Can't break the contract
That each of you makes
To the death, to the end
Deliver your future
Into the hands of your friend

Be friendly, befriend me now
Be friendly

A promise is a promise
A handshake will seal it
No amount of discussion
Can ever repeat it
Commitment forever
To borrow or lend
Deliver your future
Into the hands of your friend
Be friendly, befriend me now
Be friendly

When eyes meet in silence, A pact can be made
You need a pact
A life-long alliance, That won't be betrayed
Won't be betrayed
You need a mate
You need a mate
When facing the end
What is the fate
What is the fate
Now facing my friend
Facing my friend
What faces my friend
Be friendly, befriend me now

A friend is a friend
Nothing can change that
Arguments, squabbles
Can't break the contract
That each of you makes
To the death, to the end
Deliver your future
Into the hands of your friend

Be friendly now
Be friendly now
Be friendly, befriend me now

DROWNED

There are men high up there fishing.
Haven't seen quite enough of the world.
I ain't seen a sign of my hero
And I'm still diving down for pearls.
Oh, let me flow into the ocean,
Let me get back to the sea,
Let me be stormy and let me be calm,
Let the tide in
I want it to rush over me .

I'm flowing under bridges
Then flying through the sky,
I'm traveling down cold metal
Just a tear in a baby's eye.
Let me flow into the ocean, 
Let me get back to the sea,
Let me be stormy and let me be calm,
Let the tide in
I want it to rush over me 
I wanna drown, etc.

I am not the actor.
This can't be the scene.
But I am in the water
As far as I can see.

I'm remembering distant memories,
Recalling other names,
Rippling over canyons,
I'm boiling in the train,
Let me flow into the ocean, 
Let me get back to the sea,
Let me be stormy and let me be calm,
Let the tide in
I want it to rush over me .

I wanna drown in your sweet  sweet love, etc.

[ P. Townshend] ABKCO Music, Inc / Fabulous Music Ltd.
/ Windswept Pacific Songs/ Towser Tunes, Inc. BMI

HIDING OUT

From my window I see roads
Lead to darkness, leading home
In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping
Hear the waterfall of women weeping
Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling
Hear the prostituted children calling

From the barred and mesh- floor streets
Of a winter's night, without a moon
I am safe-hidden here.
I am safe-hidden here
Hiding out

I look over the chequerd fields
And the towering web of steel
Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling
While the empty church's bell are pealing
And the green hills lay ignored, untended
Lonely watchers remain un-befriended

And out in the one way streets
Is a swelling maze, without a door
I am safe-hidden here
I am safe-hidden here
Hiding out

© 1985 Eel Pie Publishing Ltd.
© 1985 Eel Pie/Pink Floyd Publishers Ltd.
"WDK"© 98

CRASHING BY DESIGN

Nothing must pass this line
Unless it is well defined
You just have to be resigned
You're crashing by design

You once believed that crazy accidents
were happening to you
You were chasing a capricious wind
Whenever bad luck and trouble
happened to pursue you
The dice would surely save your skin
But when you look back you must realize
That nothing in your life's divine
Everything that's ever befallen you
Happened simply 'cause it crossed your mind
You're crashing by design

Nothing must pass this line
Unless it is well defined
You just have to be resigned
You're crashing by design
 

In your single-roomed flat in a courtyard building
You sit alone just like a broken toy
Where's your mother, where's your lover
and where are the children
Are you a man or still a boy?
Who left you behind, or did you run
From the crush of so many options?
Now you know the special despair of the man
Discussed, debated and offered for adoption

Nothing must pass this line
Unless it is well defined
You just have to be resigned


Another man without a woman
Dropped like a tool no longer required
A man who longs for the stifling
Milk flowered bosom, a fool
who's no longer desired

Another man without a woman
Too many rages have cost you this time
Another man among a hundred children
You're just a child who is lost in time

You're crashing by design
You're crashing by design
It all happens by design
It all happens by design
You're crashing by design

It all happens by design
It all happens by design
You're crashing by design

© 1985 Eel Pie Publishing Ltd.
© 1985 Eel Pie/Pink Floyd Publishers Ltd.
"WDK"© 98
 

It's Hard
Pete Townshend 1982

Any tough can fight - few can play
Any fool can fall - few can lay
Any stud can reproduce - few can please
Anyone can pay - few can lease

It's hard
(It's a hard hard hand to hold
It's a hard land to control)

Any man can claim - few can find
Any girl can blink - few can lie
Anyone can promise - few can raise
Anyone can try - but a few can stay

Any brain can hide - few can stand
Any kid can fly - few can land
Any gang can scatter - few can form
Any kid can chatter - few can inform

It's hard - It's very very very very hard - so very hard

It's hard
(It's a hard hard hand to hold
It's a hard land to control)

Any soul can sleep - few can die
Any wimp can weep - few can cry
Everyone complains - few can state
Anyone can stop - few can wait

It's hard - It's very very very very hard - so hard

Anyone can do anything if they hold the right card
So I'm thinking about my life now
I'm thinking very hard
Deal me another hand Lord, this one's very hard
Deal me another hand Lord, this one's very hard
 

PREDICTABLE

Your love is so predictable
I can rely on you to blow my brain
You always know which trick to pull
I can predict you'll drive me wild - insane

Your love is so predictable, oh yes it is
Your love is so predictable, oh yes it is
Your love is so predictable
Your love is so predictable, yeah

Your body's so delectable
I know for sure I'm gonna be amazed
You get me so erectable
I predict your gonna leave me raised

Your love is so predictable, oh yes it is
Your love is so predictable, oh yes it is
Your love is so predictable, you can guarantee
Your love is so predictable, predictable

Your love is always so theatrical
My performance better make you rave
Or I will have to hear the cat-you-call
I know how bad you can misbehave, baby

Now listen to this!

Most lovers' lovin' is heart-a-beatin', it
Depends on tension to keep intact
This lover's lovin' is hard to beat, it
Will a-lend pretentions to the matter-of-fact

Your love is so predictable
You take this Taurus boy by the horn
But you know how to trick the bull
I can predict you're gonna leave me torn

Your love is so, so theatrical
My performance better make you rave
Or I will have to hear the cat-you-call
I know how bad you misbehave

Your love is so

LET'S GET PRETENTIOUS

Let's get pretentious
Put on an act
Let's be portentous
And embroider facts
Exaggerate it
Dress up the bland
Let's over-rate it
Let the critics be damned

Let's get sensuous
Put on some airs
Let's drink Kahluas
And sit bored on the stairs
Let's get excited
When we say hello
Let's be delighted
Though it's nobody we know

I don't know much
But I know what I like
I don't know much
But so-and-so said such-and-such
I don't know much
But I know what I like
I don't know much

Let's find a market
For sparkling wit
Let's make a target
Of anyone with a hit
Let's keep some secrets
Let's make them up
Put them together
Then break them up

I don't know much
But I know what I like
I don't know much
So-and-so said such-and-such
I don't know much
But I know what I like
I don't know much
I don't know much
But I know what I like
I don't know much
Now so-and-so said such-and-such
I don't know much
But I know what I like
I don't know much

Let's get pretentious
Put on an act
Let's be portentous
And embroider the facts
Exaggerate it
Dress up the bland
Let's over-rate it
Let the critics be damned

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