Amazing Journey


Pete Townshend © 1969 Towser Tunes Inc./Fabulous Music Ltd./Abkco Music Inc./BMI

Deaf, dumb and blind boy
He's in a quiet vibration land.
Strange as it seems, his musical dreams
Ain't quite so bad.

Ten years old
With thoughts as bold as thoughts can be.
Loving life and becoming wise
In simplicity.

Sickness will surely take the mind
Where minds can't usually go.
Come on the amazing journey
And learn all you should know.

A vague haze of delirium
Creeps up on me.
All at once a tall stranger I suddenly see.
He's dressed in a silver sparkled
Glittering gown
And his golden beard flows
Nearly down to the ground

Nothing to say and nothing to hear
And nothing to see.
Each sensation makes a note
In my symphony.

Sickness will surely take the mind
Where minds can't usually go.
Come on the amazing journey
And learn all you should know.

His eyes are the eyes that
Transmit all they know.
Sparkle warm crystalline glances to show
That he is your leader
And he is your guide
On the amazing journey
Together you'll ride.



Amazing Journey (Film Soundtrack Version)


Pete Townshend © 1975 Towser Tunes Inc./Fabulous Music Ltd./Abkco Music Inc.

Now he is deaf
Now he is dumb
Now he is blind
The guilty are safe
But always accused by his empty eyes
Nothing to say, nothing to hear, nothing to see
Each sensation makes a note
In his symphony

Sickness will surely take the mind
Where minds can't usually go
Come on the amazing journey
And learn all you should know

A vague haze of delirium creeps up on him
Soaring and flying images spin
He is your leader, he is your guide
On the amazing journey
Together you'll ride

Sickness will surely take the mind
Where minds can't usually go
Come on the amazing journey
And learn all you should know

His eyes are the eyes that transmit all they know
The truth burns so bright it can melt winter snow
A towering shadow so black and high
A white sun burning the earth and the sky



Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)


Sonny Boy Williamson © 1951 Screen-Gems-EMI Music Inc./Arc Music Corp./BMI

The Hawker:
You talk about your woman,
I wish you could see mine.
You talk about your woman,
I wish you could see mine.
Every time she starts to lovin'
She brings eyesight to the blind.

You know her daddy gave her magic.
I can tell by the way she walks.
You know her daddy gave her magic.
I can tell by the way she walks.
Every time we start shakin'
The dumb begin to talk.

She's got the power to heal you,
Never fear.
She's got the power to heal you,
Never fear.
Just a word from her lips
And the deaf begin to hear.



Christmas


Pete Townshend © 1969 Towser Tunes Inc./Fabulous Music Ltd./Abkco Music Inc./BMI

Father:
Did you see the faces of the childen,
They get so excited
Waking up on Christmas morning
Hours before the winter sun's ignited.
They believe in dreams and all they mean
Including heaven's generosity.
Peeping 'round the door
To see what parcels are for free
In curiosity.

And Tommy doesn't know what day it is.
He doesn't know who Jesus was
Or what praying is.
How can he be saved
From the eternal grave?

Surrounded by his friends
He sits so silently
And unaware of everything.
Playing poxy pinball,
Picks his nose and smiles and
Pokes his tongue at everything.
I believe in love
But how can men who've never seen
Light be enlightened?
Only if he's cured
Will his spirit's future level ever heighten.

And Tommy doesn't know what day it is (etc.)

Tommy, can you hear me?
Tommy, can you hear me?
Tommy, can you hear me?
How can he be saved?

Tommy:
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me!
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me!
Tommy, can you hear me?
Tommy, can you hear me?
Tommy, can you hear me?
How can he be saved?