Pete Townshend - All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes (2006) by Pete Townshend (보컬) on maniadb.com

A love born once must soon be born again
A spark that burned, then died, leaving cinders to be fanned
By the wind and thrown to flame
Flames like tongues impassioned in a moments burst
Tell me, friend, why do you stand aloof from your own heart?
The truth confronts you, the truth confronts you as the sea
Crushing with out detail
Impassioned and detached
Killing with love and power in God's Name

People stop hurting people
People stop hurting people

Love conquers poses
Love smashes stances
Love crushes angles into black

So you, without question
Know your first love is your last
And you will never, you never, never, you'll never love again
But always wish to walk with her into restaurants, it's a clammy tale
To be seen beside her at the public bar footrail
I always wanted to be matched with her
Yet her beauty was so different to mine
My "beauty" needs an understanding and a knowledge of what I am
Hers is enough, earned through eons, for that is what true beauty is
Time's gift to perfect humility

May I be matched with you again
I know the match is bad
But God help me
May I be matched with you again
I know the match is bad

But God help me
May I be matched with you again
I know the match is bad
God help me
May I be matched with you again
Without your match, there is no flame

People stop hurting people
People stop hurting people
People stop hurting people
People stop hurting people
People stop hurting people
People stop hurting people
People stop hurting people
People stop hurting people

I remember being richer than a king
The minutes of the day were golden
I recall that when the joint passed 'round
My body felt a little colder

But now I'm like a sewer channel
Running lime and scag
Let me get at the master panel
Let me at my stack

The sea refuses no river
And right now
This river's banks are blown

The sea refuses no river
Whether stinking and rank
Or red from the tank

Whether pure as a spring
There's no damn thing stops the poem
The sea refuses no river
And this river is homeward flowing

I have seen a trace of strain
In other's eyes, not spoken
I must admit that I enjoyed their pain
But this time it's me that's broken

I demand for you and His
This must be the time
When we decide what freedom is
Turn water into wine

For the sea refuses no river
We're polluted now
But in our hearts still clean

The sea refuses no river
We tried not to age
But time had it's rage
We're washed over the stones

From babies into clones of the mean
The sea won't refuse this muddy river
Won't deny the sulfurous stream

There was a fool in a dressing robe
Riding out the twilight hour
Lonely and cold in an empty home
Trying to assess his power

But now he's like a stream in flood
Swollen by the storm
He doesn't care if he sheds his blood
Let him be reborn

The sea refuses no river
Remember that
When the beggar buys a round

The sea refuses no river
And rain fills the gutters
No time for stutters

This is our chance
To sing and to dance and to clown
The sea refuses no river
And rivers were sprung to drown

The sea refuses no river
No pecking code
Respected for the damned

The sea refuses no river
Whether starving and ill
Or strung on some pill
Just 'cos you own the land
There's no unique hand plugs the dam

The sea refuses no river
And the river is where I am
The river is where I am

Sometimes walking through the streets of this city
I see all the faces of the winners and the losers

Oh why can't I see a change, just one sign?
Before I say goodbye
Before I say goodbye

I watch you sit and twitching
With a match between your teeth
You seem to have a knack of moving it
It's in time to the beat

Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight

I can't be distracted
By the stuttering of the kids
I just sit, enraptured
By your fluttering eyelids

Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight

I can only stare
You make me feel
Like I don't care

I can only stare
You make me feel
Like I don't care

I can only stare
You make me feel
Like I don't care

Your eyes explain a story
That never had a start
Your brow reveals the glory
That's hidden in your heart

Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight

Your skin is fine china
White as winter snows
Your lips are always shining
Turning up your nose

Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight

Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight

(I can only stare) Face dances tonight
(You make me feel) Fate chances moonlight
(Like I don't care) Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight

(I can only stare) Face dances tonight
(You make me feel) Fate chances moonlight
(Like I don't care) Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight

(I can only stare) Face dances tonight
(You make me feel) Fate chances moonlight
(Like I don't care) Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight

(I can only stare) Face dances tonight
(You make me feel) Fate chances moonlight
(Like I don't care) Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight

(I can only stare) Face dances tonight
(You make me feel) Fate chances moonlight
(Like I don't care) Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight

(I can only stare) Face dances tonight
(You make me feel) Fate chances moonlight
(Like I don't care) Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight

The tissue box is empty
No coffee for my cream
Dogs howl in the alley
Crazy women scream
Some kids shout from there pick up truck
There stoned on life and beer
Fifty radios playing in this street
But I'm still hardly here

Exquisitely bored in California
We take our trouble to the Crest
Exquisitely bored in California
Exquisitely bored, Just like all the rest

When the sun shines things'll get moving
You feel close to the stars
There are good times walking in Laguna
But it rains in my heart

The peasants here are starving
They look out there barrels out in space
Pray TV looks like pay TV to me
It's just a curse on the human race
I take a drive up to L.A.
In my gas guzzling limousine
There's a whole lot of crazy people up there
Living out a life in sweet ennui

Exquisitely bored in California
We take our trouble to the Crest
Exquisitely bored in California
Exquisitely bored, Just like all the rest

When the sun shines things'll get moving
You feel close to the stars
There are good times walking in Laguna
But it rains in my heart

Exquisitely bored in California
We take our trouble to the Crest
Exquisitely bored in California
Exquisitely bored, Just like all the rest

Comma comma-comma comma-comma comma-ca-ca-ca-ca
Commai comma-commai comma-commai comma-ca-ca-ca-ca
Commu-a commu-a commu-a commun
Communicate

Selbstdarstellung
Gay Talese
Ronald Rocking
Euthanasia

Use the words like flowing river touches
Embraces parting hard steel surfaces revealing pages
Beneath the water skin broken like ice flows
Smashed by iron bows on the back of a whale

Comma comma-comma comma-comma comma-ca-ca-ca-ca
Commai comma-commai comma-commai comma-ca-ca-ca-ca
Commu-a commu-a commu-a commun
Communicate

Selbstarstellung
Open hearted
Soon forgotten
But never parted

Com com communicate
Communication

Communicate communicate
Via satellite or solid state
Never never hesitate
Communicate communicate
Communicate communicate
Never never hesitate

Reaching, leaning, scratching vainly
Faces dancing, locked lipped, between thigh secret
Briolette tears drip from frozen masks
As all those death-throe questions don't get asked

Comma comma-comma comma-comma comma-ca-ca-ca-ca
Commai comma-commai comma-commai comma-ca-ca-ca-ca
Commu-a commu-a commu-a commun
Communicate
Communicate

Communicate communicate
Via satellite or solid state
Never never hesitate
Communicate communicate
Communicate communicate
Never never hesitate

Communicate
Never hesitate
Never never hesitate
Communicate communicate
Yeah

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Commai comma-commai comma-commai comma-ca-ca-ca-ca
Commu-a commu-a commu-a commun
Communicate

Communication
Communication
Communication
Communication

Stardom in Acton, that's all they got
Stardom in Acton, that's all they got
Stardom in Acton, that's all they got

Just like the grub that wriggles to the top of the mass
I'm the first to get hooked
Just like the stub of that long cigarette full of hash
I'm the last to get booked
But I'm capable
My love's inescapable
Conquering lethargy
I've got energy

(Stardom) I want a hit
Want my tan, want my cash, want my innocence
(Stardom) I want a script
Want my band, want my stash, want omnipotence

I'll go where the senescent soldier retires
And shiver in south California
Watching the storms and the tangling wires
And rivers that meet on the corner
Like some prostitute
Handing 'round the loot
I am not ashamed
I will stake a claim

(Stardom) Born in a trunk
Got my home, got my car, got stability
(Stardom) I'm Hollywood's son
All alone don't admire anonymity

I'm so angry that you turned me on
I didn't remain your friend too long
I'm so angry that you turned me on
I didn't stay your friend for too long
I'm so angry that you let me see
My totally futile destiny
I'm so angry, you interrupted my dream
Now I know that the power rests in me

(Stardom) I want a hit
Want my tan, want my cash, want my innocence
(Stardom) I want a script
Want my band, want my stash, want omnipotence

(Stardom) Born in a trunk
Got my home, got my car, got stability
(Stardom) But I'm Hollywood's son
All alone don't admire anonymity

Stardom in Acton, that's all they got
Stardom in Acton, that's all they got
Stardom in Acton, that's all they got
Stardom in Acton, that's all they got

Stardom
Stardom

I don't matter, you don't matter
Neither does this mindless clatter
It don't matter where you're from
What matters is your uniform

Wear your braces 'round your seat
Doctor Marten's on your feet
Keep your bar net very neat
For credibility on street

We are marching as to war
We won't be obscure no more
In uniform, in uniform

I am really living life inside a jar: I'm all alone
So I feel forgiven if I'm under par, a fallen clone
Only in the river can I claim a star to call my own
I'm newly born
In uniform I'm up on the throne

I am frightened, you are frightened
Should we get our trousers tightened?
Where in Brighton is your norm
Who wears enlightened uniform?

On my Parka is some band
I don't really understand
Perry is my guiding hand
Scooter polo sweeps the land
We are marching as to war
We won't be obscure no more
In uniform, in uniform

People think we dress alike to segregate identities
Pills or drink or puffing pipes in integrated entities
Then they wink and snort their line, and say how great their Bentley is
They feel so warm when they conform

They say that nakedness is what our Lord intended
When we stand naked, then we all appear the same
But it's just faking it if we all try pretending
Are we're just making all our prayers in the rain
Heaven knows I need new clothes

We are marching as to war
But we are really fighting for
Our uniform, our uniform

When I contemplate my future, I go numb, don't feel a thing
I don't overrate my suitors number one, I always sing
But the State and their computers make me run for comfort in
My uniform
In uniform I feel like a king

They say that nakedness is what our Lord intended
When we stand naked, then we all appear the same
But it's just faking it if we all try pretending
Are we just making all our prayers in the rain?
It seems insane
But Heaven knows
It's all the same
And I need new clothes

When you travel to the green hills of Ayr
Where the sea breaks windows on the border line
Remember me to a girl who lives there
For she once was a true love of mine

Please see for me that her red hair is long
And flows and curls down to her back and breast
Please see for me that her red hair is long
For that's the way I remember her best

North country girl (Oh-oh-oh)
North country girl (Oh-oh-oh)
North country girl (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
North country girl

See that she's warm when the summer ends
When trees are bare and the rivers freeze
She washes her clothes where the river bends
She's working on her knees

See for me that her coat's pulled up close
And her beret frames her sweet, pretty face
See that she's warm and drink her a toast
For I am exiled in a lonely place

Please let me know if she remembers me at all
A hundred times I've hoped and prayed
That way up there near the Roman wall
She didn't suffer when the fall-out sprayed

North country girl (Oh-oh-oh)
North country girl (Oh-oh-oh)
North country girl (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
North country girl

I was just thirty-four years old and I was still wandering in a haze
I was wondering why everyone I met seemed like they were
Lost in a maze

I don't know why I thought I should have some kind of
Divine right to the blues
It's sympathy not tears people need when they're the
Front page sad news.

The incense burned away and the stench began to rise
And lovers now estranged avoided catching each others' eyes

And girls who lost their children cursed the men who fit the coil
And men not fit for marriage took their refuge in the oil
No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned
From all this you'd imagine that there must be something learned

Slit skirts, Jeanie never wears those slit skirts
I don't ever wear no ripped shirts
Can't pretend that growing older never hurts.

Knee pants, Jeanie never wears no knee pants
Have to be so drunk to try a new dance
So afraid of every new romance

Slit skirts, slit skirt
Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts, slit skirt
She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts, slit skirt
Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt

Slit skirts, slit skirt
Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts, slit skirt
She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts, slit skirt
Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt

Romance, romance, why aren't we thinking up romance?
Why can't we drink it up true heart romance
Just need a brief new romance

Let me tell you some more about myself, you know I'm sitting at home just now.
The big events of the day are passed and the late TV shows have come around.
I'm number one in the home team, but I still feel unfulfilled.
A silent voice in her broken heart complaining that I'm unskilled.

And I know that when she thinks of me, she thinks of me as him,
But, unlike me, she don't work off her frustration in the gym.

Recriminations fester and the past can never change
A woman's expectations run from both ends of the range

Once she walked with untamed lovers' face between her legs
Now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg

Slit skirts, Jeanie never wears those slit skirts
And I don't ever wear no ripped shirts
Can't pretend that growing older never hurts

Knee pants, Jeanie never wears no knee pants
We have to be so drunk to try a new dance
So afraid of every new romance

Slit skirts, slit skirt
Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts, slit skirt
She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts, slit skirt
Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt

Slit skirts, slit skirt
Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts, slit skirt
She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts, slit skirt
Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt

Romance, romance, why aren't we thinking up romance?
Why can't we drink it up true heart romance
Just need a brief new romance

He's a fool let's you know's who you say
You can see him coming a mile away
He's got his lapel cut just a little over displayed
And his shoes could be a problem could get in the way

Watch that man
He's your problem
Got something for ya between his toes
Watch that man
He's your contact
He's got his feather shoved right up your nose

He was born in the future
He's getting born here sometime soon
Getting born in the future
He may made up this rule

They put out a police description out for this guy
You know the kind of a guy with a kind of disguise
I don't know quite if his shoulders are wide
Or quite blue was his blue blue eyes
How wide are his ties
How smooth are his eyes
How big are his feet
He dresses so neat
But he's being followed, followed in the street right now
Just like you and me

Too tong too chong who really cares


If your born with long blond hair
On the boarder was the smoggers and bald pieores
And down on 42nd street with all the love flow whores

Watch that man
He's your problem
Got something for ya between his toes
Watch that man
He's your contact
He's got his feather shoved right up your nose

He was born in the future
Tomorrow we can bring another for the new world
Tomorrow we will bring another soul
Tomorrow we can bring another for the new world
Tomorrow we will bring another soul

Tomorrow we can bring another for the new world
Tomorrow we will bring another soul
Tomorrow we can bring another for the new world
Tomorrow we will bring another soul

He was born in the future
He's getting born here sometime soon
Getting born in the future
He may made up this rule