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| The Who – How Many Friends Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is another one of The Who's more obscure songs on Who By Numbers. The meaning of this one is clear in some aspects and enigmatic in others. Clearly, Pete is talking about how he is attractive to people because of what he is and how he dresses, and yet it is most of those people who want something from him, i.e., sex, money etc. But the song is also about the history of the Who, their conflicts and the people, including the media, who took shots at them all the way. In the end, Pete acknowledges that amongst the scores of people he knows in rock and in business, there are only a small few who are real friends. |
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| The Who – They Are All In Love Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This obscure Townsend song is one of my favorites. To me, its about loneliness and looking upon lovers that increase that loneliness. Its also about a guy or girl who is not in the dull mainstream and who doesn't know where he or she fits in the commercial and media worlds. Further still, its about Pete, who has gone past his days as the "original" punk rocker and calls out for the young punks to stay young and "high" because he, Pete, has become a domesticated citizen recycling trash. The reference in the last verse to a "woman in child birth growing ugly in a flash" is not to be taken literally or suggest that a woman who is giving birth is literally ugly. It is a typical Townsend-like metaphor for the swift change in Pete's life from a handsome fashionalbe young rocker to a guy that looks like anyone of us. If you dig this song, please send me an email. I figured out the chords and most of Nicky Hopkins piano solo and play and sing it from time to time. |
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