The Who Tribute EP

 Baba O'Riley

Out here in the fields I farm 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 cross land

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 teenage wasteland they're all wasted!

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 and 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

Won't Get Fooled Again

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

Meet the new boss same as the old boss

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

Because the banners, they are flown in the last war

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 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 a parting on the left is now a parting on the right

And the beards have all grown longer overnight

Squeeze Box

Mama's got a squeeze box she wears on her chest

And when Daddy comes home he never gets no rest

Because she's playing all night and the music's all right

Mama's got a squeeze box Daddy never sleeps at night

Well the kids don't eat and the dog can't sleep

There's no escape from the music in the whole damn street

Because she's playing all night and the music's all right

Mama's got a squeeze box Daddy never sleeps at night

'She goes in and out and in and out and in and out and in and out

She's playing all night and the music's all right

Mama's got a squeeze box Daddy never sleeps at night

She goes, squeeze me, come on and squeeze me

Come on and tease me like you do I'm so in love with you

Mama's got a squeeze box Daddy never sleeps at night

She goes in and out and in and out and in and out and in and out

Because she's playing all night and the music's all right

Mama's got a squeeze box Daddy never sleeps at night

I Don't Wanna Get Wise

He was drunk, I was blind though we tried to be kind

I was sunk, always late we were quick to rotate

Let's be blunt, I was a bluff and the surreal life was tough

I was a runt, we told lies but to our great surprise

All the shit that we did brought us some money, I guess

And those snotty young kids were a standing success

Helped us conquer and rise and we learned in this hell

We don't wanna get wise I don't wanna get wise

I don't wanna get wise life teaches us well

We still pull, we get smug and we all like a drug

Over full, always sated puffed up, elated

Let's admit our mistakes are what triggered our breaks

We were shits no disguise and it is no surprise

That the crap that we did brought us money, God bless

And those snotty young kids were a standing success

Helped us conquer and rise and we learned in this hell

We don't wanna get wise I don't wanna get wise

I don't wanna get wise life teaches us well

Experiment, you universe we'll ask why you choose to curse

Why set a fire you plan to douse why set a rat to catch a mouse?

He was drunk I was blind though we tried to be kind

I was sun he was late always late we were quick to rotate

We tried hard to stay young but the high notes were sung

We've been scarred, we've been prized but you could see in our eyes

I don't wanna get wise we got wise

Eminence Front

The sun shines and people forget the spray flies as the speedboat glides

And people forget forget they're hiding the girls smile

And people forget the snow packs as the skier tracks

And people forget forget they're hiding

Behind an eminence front eminence front it's a put on

It's an Eminence front it's an Eminence front it's a put on

An Eminence front eminence front it's a put on

Come and join the party dress to kill

Won't you come and join the party dress to kill

The drinks flow people forget that big wheel spins, the hair thins

People forget forget they're hiding the news slows

People forget the shares crash, hopes are dashed

People forget forget they're hiding

Behind an eminence front eminence front it's a put on

It's an Eminence front it's an Eminence front it's a put on

An Eminence front eminence front it's a put on

Come on join the party dress to kill dress yourself to kill