Entwhistle wrote this because he was afraid of spiders when he was a child. I also heard another theory in which "Boris the Spider" represented the Soviet Union, which creeped and crawled to execute their "evil deeds", which means The Who was making fun of the paranoia of the Cold War at the time.
Entwhistle wrote this because he was afraid of spiders when he was a child. I also heard another theory in which "Boris the Spider" represented the Soviet Union, which creeped and crawled to execute their "evil deeds", which means The Who was making fun of the paranoia of the Cold War at the time.