Eyesight to the Blind (The Hawker) Lyrics
my least faveroite song on "Tommy", didnt have much plot to the story nor a intresting beat
This is arguably my favorite. You are right that it seems to have no relevance, but it is so cool.
This is arguably my favorite. You are right that it seems to have no relevance, but it is so cool.
This is song is in fact central to the plot of "Tommy." In the album and in the movie, "Hawker" is portrayed two ways but the song conveys the same message: that we search for healing in the wrong places. In the album, Tommy's mother goes to a pimp who offers healing powers of a hooker, and the movie she takes him to a religious cult dedicated to Monroe. Message: Deaf, dumb and blind Tommy is at a better place than anyone else. Message of Tommy: Materialism = bad, Nirvana = good. Definition of Nirvana: (in Buddhism) a transcendent state in...
This is song is in fact central to the plot of "Tommy." In the album and in the movie, "Hawker" is portrayed two ways but the song conveys the same message: that we search for healing in the wrong places. In the album, Tommy's mother goes to a pimp who offers healing powers of a hooker, and the movie she takes him to a religious cult dedicated to Monroe. Message: Deaf, dumb and blind Tommy is at a better place than anyone else. Message of Tommy: Materialism = bad, Nirvana = good. Definition of Nirvana: (in Buddhism) a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. It represents the final goal of Buddhism. And the base-line is pretty sick
Sorry base line in the awsome Eric Clapton version in the movies is what im refering to
Sorry base line in the awsome Eric Clapton version in the movies is what im refering to
this is a cover, although i can't remember who does the original. doesn't make much sense putting a cover on a concept album, does it? good song, though.
Sonny Boy Williamson does the original. I really love this song. I mean, how could you not use this song? How many other songs include references to the blind, dumb, and deaf other than a song from Tommy?
Actually it was Eric Clapton who did this originally. The song is sung while he walks down a church-like aisle and is surrounded by women wearing Marilyn Monroe masks, because she is the woman he is referring to as being so powerful. They all behave as though they are attending a mass.
Tommy is brought to the church in hopes of finding a cure and he eventually reaches out to a huge statue of M.M. and it comes crashing down.
@soze_umama Dude WTF. Stop commenting
@soze_umama Dude WTF. Stop commenting
This song is about a person trying to get Tommy's parents to pay for Tommy to get laid. "Every time she starts lovin'..."
actually according to www.answers.com mose allison wrote it originally.
Nope, it was Sonny Boy Williamson in 1948. Mose Allison covered it again in 1958 or '59, and changed the lyrics slightly.
The Who covered it again, using Mose Allison's minorly changed lyrics as a base, then changing it some more to suit the feel of Tommy.
who ever said eric clapton did this song first is an idiot he did it in the movie. only because pete helped him with a drug problem and eric owed him a favor. The song is about the acid queen and its the pimp saying that she can do all of this for tommy.
the hawker= pimp
I think originally in the context of "Tommy", this song was the Hawker advertising the Acid Queen, but in the movie, it was a separate attempt to heal Tommy, through a cult dedicated to either the love of women or maybe the famous.
IMO
IMO
I get it now - in the movie it is the church of sex, drugs and rock and roll.
I get it now - in the movie it is the church of sex, drugs and rock and roll.