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Pete Townshend - Barefootin' - lyrics

Everybody get on your feet
You make me nervous when you in your seat
Take off your shoes and pat your feet
We're doing a dance that can't be beat
We're barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
Went to a party the other night
Long Tall Sally was out of sight
She threw her wig, and her high sneakers too
She was doing a dance without any shoes
She was barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
Hey little girl with the red dress on
I bet you can barefoot all night long
Take off your shoes and throw them away
Come back and get them another day
barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
Lil John Henry he said to Sue
If I can barefoot, you can barefoot too
Sue told John, I can get out here and groove
I was barefootin ever since I was two
barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
Take off your shoes and dance
barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'

Pete Townshend - (She's A) Sensation - lyrics

She overwhelms as she approach's
Make your lungs hold breathe inside
Lovers break caresses for her
Love enhanced when she's gone by
You'll feel her coming
A new vibration
From afar you'll see her
She's a sensation
She's a sensation
They worship her and all she touches
Hazy-eyed they catch her glance
Pleasant shudders shake their senses
Her warm momentum throws their stance
You'll feel her coming
A new vibration
From afar you'll see her
She's a sensation
She's a sensation
Soon you'll see her, can't you feel her, She's coming
Send your troubles dancing
She knows the answer she's coming
She's coming
She's a sensation
She leaves a trail of rooted people
Mesmerized by just the sight
The few she touched now are disciples
Love as One, she is the light
She is the light...

Pete Townshend - A Little Is Enough - lyrics

They say that love often passes in a second
And you never can catch it up
So I'm hanging on to you as though eternity beckoned
But it's clear that the match is rough
Common sense 'd tell me not to try 'n continue
But I'm after a piece of that diamond in you
So keep an eye open
My spirit ain't broken
Your love is so incredible
Your body so edible
You give me an overdose of love
Just a little is enough
I'm a connoisseur of champagne cognac
The perfume nearly beats the taste
I eat an oyster and I feel the contact
But more than one would be a waste
Some people want an endless line that's true
But all I have's a little time with you
A smile sets me reeling
A kiss feels like stealing
Your love is like heroin
The addict is mellowing
I can't pretend that I'm tough
Just a little is enough
Just like a sailor heading into the seas
There's a gale blowing in my face
THe high winds scare me but I need the breeze
And I can't head for any other place
Life would seem so easy on the other tack
But even a hurricane won't turn me back
You might be an island
On the distant horizon
But the little I see
Looks like heaven to me
I don't care if the ocean gets rough
Just a little is enough
Common sense 'd tell me not to try and continue
But I'm after a piece of that diamond on you
So keep an eye open
My spirit ain't broken
Your love's so incredible
Your body so edible
You give me an overdose of love
A little is enough

Pete Townshend - Ask Yourself - lyrics

Do I really understand
Do I really understand
Ask yourself
Ask yourself
Ask yourself
Do I truly trust this man
Ask yourself
Ask yourself
Ask yourself
Do I really love this man
Ask yourself
Ask yourself
Ask yourself
Do I really love this man

Pete Townshend - Body Language - lyrics

Mix it up and make it nice.
Cussed it once and cussed it twice.
Talking chrome and whispering steel.
Escargot and lemon peel.
Body language
Body language
Remove the bandage.
Body language.
Beasting lips.
And private art.
Treat it like an auto part.
Bored, ignored and charred too much.
Now it's me who's out to lunch.
Body language.
Knee bone's let it.
Martian Landing
Body language.
And I, claiming warm welcome
Breast fed
Promises of buss lips.
and then sleep.
dreams of tossing turning
In the market rubble
Like a rat comfortable and secure in hell.
Mouths never speaking
All inferred, deferred.
Not even spluttered, never screamed or shouted.
All that's long gone
Face dancing, body language
Plastic metic flush it harder
a cold medusa working larder
Never try to touch me with out that thing.
It's far too rusty.
Body language.

Pete Townshend - Brilliant Blues - lyrics

Say goodbye to the brilliant blues
Say goodbye...
It's time, to live
Make me, take me
It's time, to give
So don't betray me, pay me
The brilliant blues
Don't want to be frozen
I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine cafe
I've read the news and the clique-ridden notions
I know that now is the time to say
It's time, to teach
So tell me, come on tell me
It's time, to preach
So help me, come on and help me
The brilliant blues
Will never flow this way again
The colour of the river is grey
The brilliant blues
Have faded into sadness and pain,
And now it's time to say...it's time
You and me are going to finally sail away
We'll get far away from the blues and the mist and the rain
You and me are going to fight until we win the day
For now is the time we must say goodbye
To the brilliant blues
The brilliant blues
Don't want to be frozen
I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine cafe
I've read the news and the clique-ridden notions
I know that now is the time to say
It's time, to trust
So buy me, come on try me
It's time, to thrust
Guide me, stay beside me
The brilliant blues
Will never flow this way again
The colour of the river is grey
The brilliant blues
Have faded into sadness and pain,
And now is the time to say...it's time

Pete Townshend - A Fool Says... - lyrics

HOGARTH
A fool
Says love is like a melody
Or something like a symphony
But this is cacophony
Never changing key
We
We can't fool our audience
We put up such a poor pretense
Don't hide a shred of evidence
We have no defense
WOODLAND CREATURES
A fool says
Love is foolproof
HOGARTH
A fool says . . . .
We
We can't fool our audience
We put up such a poor pretense
Don't hide a shred of evidence
We have no defense
WOODLAND CREATURES
A fool says
Love is foolproof

Pete Townshend - And I Moved - lyrics

And I moved
As I saw him looking in through my window
His eyes were silent lies
And I moved
And I saw him standing in the doorway
His figure merely filled the space
And I moved
But I moved toward him
And I moved
And his hands felt like ice exciting
As he laid me back just like an empty dress
And I moved
But a minute after he was weeping
His tears his only truth
And I moved
But I moved toward him

Pete Townshend - Anyway Anyhow Anywhere - lyrics

I can go anyway Way I choose
I can live anyhow Win or lose
I can go anywhere For something new
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose
I can do anything Right or wrong
I can talk anyhow And get along
I don't care anyway I'll never lose
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose
Nothin' gets in my way
Not even locked doors
Don't follow the lines that been layed before
I get along anyway I dare
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere
(harp solo)
I can go anywhere I choose
I can go anywhere I choose
This is what we used to believe
We thought we'd live forever
I can go anywhere
I can do anything
I live anyhow
(guitar solo)
I can go anywhere Way I choose
I can live anyhow Win or lose
I can do anything Right on you
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose
I can do anything right or wrong
I can talk anyhow and get along
I don't care anyway you know I never lose
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose
Anyway I choose
You know I never lose
Anyway I choose

Pete Townshend - Begin The Beguine - lyrics

When they begin the beguine
It brings back the sound of music so tender
It brings back a night of tropical splendor
It brings back a memory ever green
I'm with you once more under the stars
And down by the shore an orchestra's playing
And even the palms seem to be swaying
When they begin the beguine
To live it again is past all endeavor
Except when that tune clutches my heart
And there we are, swearing to love forever
And promising never, never to part
What moments divine, what rapture serene
The clouds came along to disperse the joys we had tasted
And now when I hear people curse the chance that was wasted
I know but too well what they mean
So don't let them begin the beguine
Let the love that was once a fire remain an ember
Let it sleep like the dead desire I only remember
When they begin the beguine
O yes, let them begin the beguine, make them play
Till the stars that were there before return above you
Till you whisper to me once more: "Darling, I love you!"
And we suddenly know what heaven we're in
When they begin the beguine
When they begin the beguine
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