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Titolo: Who's Next - Testi

Baba O'Riley
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  (Townshend)
  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
  Don't cry
  Don't raise your eye
  It's only teenage wasteland
  Sally ,take my hand
  Travel south crossland
  Put out the fire
  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, oh
  Teenage wasteland
  They're all wasted!
  Bargain
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  (Townshend)
  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'd call that a bargain
  The best I ever had
  The best I ever had
  I'd gladly lose me to find you
  I'd 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'd call that a bargain
  The best I ever had
  The best I ever had
  I sit looking 'round
  I look at my face inm 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
  I'd 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'd call that a bargain
  The best I ever had
  The best I ever had
  Love Ain't For Keeping
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  (Townshend)
  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 is seeping
  Lay down beside me
  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 Wife
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  (Entwistle)
  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
  She's comin'!
  She's comin'!
  Song Is Over
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  (Townshend)
  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've got to sing out
  chorus:
      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
  (chorus)
  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' for a note, pure and easy
  Playing so free, like a breath rippling by
  Gettin' In Tune
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  (Townshend)
  I'm singing this note 'cause it fits in well
  With the chords I'm playing
  I can't pretend there's any meaning here
  Or 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 with the straight and narrow
  (Getting in tune with the straight and narrow)
  Getting in tune with the straight and narrow
  (Getting in tune with the straight and narrow)
  Yeah, I'm getting in tune with the straight and narrow
  (Getting in tune with the straight and narrow)
  I'm singing this note 'cause 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 with the straight and narrow
  Getting in tune with the straight and narrow  (repeat)
  Goin' Mobile
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  (Townshend)
  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', groovin', groovin', yeah
  Movin', Yeah
  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
  Oooooh, yeah, hee!
  Mobile, mobile, mobile yeah
  Behind Blue Eyes
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  (Townshend)
  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
  If I swallow anything evil
  Put your finger down my throat
  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
  Won't Get Fooled Again
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  (Townshend)
  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
  'Cause the banners, they are flown in the next 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?
  There's nothing in the streets
  Looks any different to me
  And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
  And the parting on the left
  Are 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
  Pick 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!
  Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
  Meet the new boss
  Same as the old boss

Pure and Easy
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 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 lies.
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 the hillside, oil in the teacup,
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.
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, pure and easy,
Playing so free, like a breath rippling by.
There once was a note, listen (x 18)
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Don't You Do It
Ahh, baby, don't you do it, don't do it, baby
Don't you break my heart
Please, don't do it, baby,
Don't you break my heart,
Please, don't you do it, baby
Yeah, I sacrifice to make laughter,
I kept nothin' for myself
Now you wanna leave me babe for the love of someone else,
I'm tryin' to do my best
Yeah, I'm tryin' to do my best
Don't you do it, 
Don't do it, babe
Don't you break my heart
Please, don't you do it, babe
Don't you do it
Please, don't you do it, babe
My biggest mistake was lovin' you too much, and lettin' you know
'Couse now you got me where you want me babe, and you gonna let me go
I'm tryin' to do my best
Yeah, I'm tryin' 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'm tryin' to do my best
Yeah, I'm tryin' to do my best
Open up your heart, can't you see I need you?
Open up your heart yeah, can't you see I love you?
Yeah, don't you do it
Please, don't do it, baby
Yeah, don't you do it
Please, don't do it, baby
Don't you break my heart now
Don't you break my heart now
Don't you do it now
...
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Naked Eye
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 and milk and honey flows,
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,
Nah nah no, 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,
Both think we know what's right,
Both know we know what's wrong,
We tell ourselves so many many many lies,
We're not pawns in any game, we're not tools of bigger men,
There's only one who can really move us all,
It all looks fine to the naked eye,
But it don't really happen that way at all.
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Water
The foreman over there hates the gang,
The poor people on the farms get it so rough,
Truck drivers drive like the devil,
The policemen they're acting so tough.
They need water,
Good water,
They need water,
And I'm sure there isn't one of us here
Who'd say no to somebody's daughter.
No, no, no, no, no.
The foreman over there hates the gang,
The poor people on the farms get it so rough,
Truck drivers drive like the devil,
The policemen they're acting so tough.
They need water,
Good water,
They need water,
And maybe somebody's daughter.
Indian Lake is burning,
The New York skyline is hazy,
The River Thames is turning dry,
The whole world is blazing.
We need water,
Wow yeah good water,
Ooh we need water,
And maybe somebody's daughter.
Ah gimme gimme good water,
Ah gimme gimme gimme good water,
Ah gimme good water,
Please don't refuse me, mister,
I seen your daughter at the oasis
And I'm beginning to blister.
My 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.
I need water, good good water,
They need water,
Gimme gimme gimme good water,
Wow, gimme gimme gimme good water,
Gimme gimme gimme good water,
Come on gimme gimme gimme...
[faintly:] Champagne!
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Too Much of Anything
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,
Searching, trying to find the crutch,
I think this heart has bled once too often,
This time it's bled a bit too much.
Too much of anything, too much for me,
Too much of 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,
Hmmm, there's something in the air.
Ooh, I've overloaded on my way,
Bye, bye, bye, bye, you better keep in touch.
Think your ears hear a whole lot of music,
And like me they've caught a bit too much.
Too much of anything, is too much for me,
Too much of 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,
Oh, searching, trying to find the crutch,
I think these ears hear a whole lot of music,
And like me they've heard a bit too much.
Too much of anything, is too much for me,
Too much of everything gets too much for me.
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I Don't Even Know Myself
There's nothing in the way I walk that could 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 labelled shelf,
Don't pretend that you know me 'cause I don't even know myself,
Ooh I don't know myself.
I don't mind if you try once in a while,
I don't mind if I cry once in a while,
The doors aren't shut as tight as they might seem,
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, 'cause 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 'cause I don't even know myself,
I said I don't know myself.
I don't mind if you try once in a while,
I don't mind if I cry once in a while,
The doors aren't shut as tight as they might seem,
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 warder knows my scream,
I'm just trying to fight my way out of this dream.
There's only five who know my real name,
And my mother don't believe they know it,
What she called me is the way I'm staying,
And no one'll ever know it,
Come on all of you big boys, come on all of you elves,
Don't pretend that you know me 'cause 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.
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