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The Acid Queen Lyrics
If your child ain't all he should be now
This girl could put him right
I'll show him what he could be now
Just give me one night
I'm the Gypsy
The acid Queen
Pay before we start
I'm the Gypsy
I'm guaranteed
To tear his soul apart
Give us a room and close the door
Leave us for a while
Your boy won't be a boy no more
Young, but not a child
I'm the Gypsy
The acid Queen
Pay before we start
I'm the Gypsy
I'm guaranteed
To tear his soul apart
Gather your wits and hold on fast
Your mind must learn to roam
Just as the Gypsy Queen must do
You're gonna hit the road
My work is done now look at him
He's never been more alive
My blood will run up through his skin
Watch his body writhe
I'm the Gypsy
The acid Queen
Pay before we start
I'm the Gypsy
I'm guaranteed
To tear his soul apart
If your child ain't all he should be now
This girl will put him right
I'll show him what he could be now
Just give me one night
I'm the Gypsy
The acid Queen
Pay before we start
I'm the Gypsy
I'm guaranteed
To break your little heart
"It was the first slightly 'anti-drug' song I had written. It portrayed the pusher as a prostitute, but selling souls rather than bodies. When the then Vice President of the U.S.A., Spiro Agnew, wanted a song to use as an example of Rock's bad influence on the high drug use of young Americans, he mentioned this song. It really brought it home to me what uninformed, blinkered idiots many politicians are. Speech over."
As explained by Townshend on the live DVD commentary, the Acid Queen is the woman referred to by the Hawker in Eyesight to the Blind. She is a prostitute, but unknown to the hawker, she also uses drugs and the suggestion is that she uses them on Tommy.
a lot
it paints a picture of someone ODing on acid...to me anyway
the acid queen is a charactor from the movie "tommy" she was the person who tries to help him cause he was deaf , dumb , and blind. they put him in a giant ball with needles pooking out the sides and they pumped acid into the ball and he starts goin nuts. really popular movie in its time. matt
I used to listen to the tommy record with my parents when i was litte and sing along and i remember looking at the pictures in the insert and there is a crazy picture of the acid queen and now looking back on it i remember liking the insert bc of the cool colors and i really didnt understand what this song was about nor what acid was...crazy
The Acid Queen is basically about using acid to trip out and try to cure Tommy. They made up all the needle machine stuff for the movie.
Yeah just to clarify, the record preceded the musical which preceded the movie.
ha ha ha! That's great. Kind of like when Reagan (among other presidential candidates) used "Born in the USA" by Springsteen as his campaign song, when really it was in actuality totally sarcastic and unpatriotic-as-it-gets.
But that's off the topic. The Acid Queen has basically been explained. Tina Turner rocks out in the musical version, by the way...
i love this song. yeah, it's (obviously) 'bout an acid trip.