Going Mobile


Pete Townshend © 1971 Towser Tunes Inc./Fabulous Music Ltd./Abkco Music Inc./BMI

I'm going home
And when I want to go home, I'm going mobile
Well I'm gonna find a home on wheels, see how it feels,
Goin' mobile
Keep me moving

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 moving

Out in the woods
Or in the city
It's all the same to me
When I'm driving free
The world's my home
When I'm mobile

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 moving

Keep me moving
Over fifty
Keep me groovin'
Just a hippie gypsy
Come on move now
Movin'
Keep me movin' yeah

Keep me movin', movin', movin', 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 taxman miss me!
I'm mobile!
Mobile, mobile, mobile, yeah



Behind Blue Eyes


Pete Townshend © 1971 Towser Tunes Inc./Fabulous Music Ltd./Abkco Music Inc./BMI

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.
And if I swallow anything evil
Put your finger down my throat
And 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 sad man
To be the bad man
Behind blue eyes.

Won't Get Fooled Again


Pete Townshend © 1971 Towser Tunes Inc./Fabulous Music Ltd./Abkco Music Inc./BMI

We'll be fighting in the street
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

Chorus:
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
And 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 foe, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all [were] flown, in the last war

Chorus

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
For I know that the hypnotized never lie

Do ya?

There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-by
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And their beards have all grown longer overnight

Chorus

Yeah!!!

Meet the new boss,
Same as the old boss...



I Don't Even Know Myself


Pete Townshend © 1971 Towser Tunes Inc./Fabulous Music Ltd./Abkco Music Inc./BMI

There's nothin' in the way I walk
That can tell you where I'm goin'
There's nothin; in the words I speak
That can betray anything I'm knowin'
Don't think that by the way I dress
You can fit me on a labeled shelf
Don't pretend that you know me
'Cause I don't even know myself
I don't know myself

Chorus:
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
And I'm just tryin' 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

Chorus

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 warden knows my scream
But I'm just tryin' to fight my way out of this dream

There's only five who know my real name
My mother don't believe they know it
What she called me is the way I'm stayin'
And no one'll ever blow 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 mysef
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