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Did you ever sleep in a bear pit
With apple cores and mice along?
Did you ever lay on ice and grit
Or search for a place where the wind was gone?
Did you ever tramp up endless hills
Past cozy homes with secret beds?
Did you ever dream of a suicide pill
And wake up cold to the smell of bread?
Well, I have slept there badly twice
And shared my straw with scratchin' mice
Although you'll find some deep brown hair
I'll tell you something for nothing
There ain't no bears in there (cache, cache)
There ain't no bears in there (cache, cache)
Did you ever have to make a draw
For a hard wooden bench or a bed of stone?
Did you ever jemmy a stable door
And scare the horse to escape the snow?
Did you ever invade a neat little yard
Wake up the children who hope for ghosts?
Did you ever cause their dogs to bark
Their guests to curse their noisy hosts?
Don't jump in expectin' fun
Don't swagger in there with your elephant gun
Don't enter the cage with wavin' chairs
'Cause I'll tell you something for nothing
There ain't no bears in there (cache, cache)
Not a single bear in there (cache, cache)
Did you ever pass the police at work
And hope that they might take you in?
Did you ever wonder why music hurts
When someone plays it aloof to sin?
Did you ever believe that a smile could cure
A happy face, keep you warm at night?
Were you ever fooled by laughter's lure
Only to find that they laughed in spite?
Don't jump in expectin' fun
Don't swagger in there with your elephant gun
Don't enter the cage with wavin' chairs
'Cause I'll tell you something for nothing
There ain't no bears in there (cache, cache)
Not a single bear in there (cache, cache)
Did you ever finally find a place
A soft warm bed in a room of flowers
And when you finally laid down your face
You found you slept for a hundred hours?
A hundred hours
There ain't no bears in there (cache, cache)
Not a single bear in there (cache, cache)
No bears in there (cache, cache)
There ain't no bears in there (cache, cache)
Not a single bear in there (cache, cache)
With apple cores and mice along?
Did you ever lay on ice and grit
Or search for a place where the wind was gone?
Past cozy homes with secret beds?
Did you ever dream of a suicide pill
And wake up cold to the smell of bread?
And shared my straw with scratchin' mice
Although you'll find some deep brown hair
I'll tell you something for nothing
There ain't no bears in there (cache, cache)
There ain't no bears in there (cache, cache)
For a hard wooden bench or a bed of stone?
Did you ever jemmy a stable door
And scare the horse to escape the snow?
Wake up the children who hope for ghosts?
Did you ever cause their dogs to bark
Their guests to curse their noisy hosts?
Don't swagger in there with your elephant gun
Don't enter the cage with wavin' chairs
'Cause I'll tell you something for nothing
There ain't no bears in there (cache, cache)
Not a single bear in there (cache, cache)
And hope that they might take you in?
Did you ever wonder why music hurts
When someone plays it aloof to sin?
Did you ever believe that a smile could cure
A happy face, keep you warm at night?
Were you ever fooled by laughter's lure
Only to find that they laughed in spite?
Don't swagger in there with your elephant gun
Don't enter the cage with wavin' chairs
'Cause I'll tell you something for nothing
There ain't no bears in there (cache, cache)
Not a single bear in there (cache, cache)
A soft warm bed in a room of flowers
And when you finally laid down your face
You found you slept for a hundred hours?
A hundred hours
Not a single bear in there (cache, cache)
No bears in there (cache, cache)
There ain't no bears in there (cache, cache)
Not a single bear in there (cache, cache)
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I can't believe no one's commented this song yet! One of my favorite Who songs by far. Just fun to listen to relax to. I think it's about being paranoid when you're trying to sleep? Or just having a horrible night's sleep for a while then finally after a while finding the best rest of your life. Or maybe it's about how life's rough, all the way til the end when you're buried six feet under some flowers! Anyway, great song.
It is an awsome song. Its about living on the streets and having to fend for yourself a theme that seems to be common in Who songs. Its about finding a place to sleep when your on the street and all the problems that its possible to come across. Its about being tough. The narrator is saying that don't talk shit until you here my story of woe. I just don't understand the bear's in there line.
It is an awsome song. Its about living on the streets and having to fend for yourself a theme that seems to be common in Who songs. Its about finding a place to sleep when your on the street and all the problems that its possible to come across. Its about being tough. The narrator is saying that don't talk shit until you here my story of woe. I just don't understand the bear's in there line.
I believe it's partially based on a late night wander Pete went on in Bern, Switzerland, which has a famous bear pit. I'd have to read his book again to be sure but I think he did actually wander in there in the dead of night!
To expand on what the last user said about this song, my favorite from Facedances, here's what I found directly from Pete on http://www.thewhojukebox.com: "Cache Cache is a song I wrote about being stoned and bleak enough to walk into the legendary bear-pit in Berne during a very depressing European Who tour, only to find that the bears had been taken away for the winter, and would be unable to eat me. It’s about being lost."