I was under the impression that this song wasn't simply about not being able to express your love for someone, but also not being able to express yourself. (and of course, other things too :P)
Townshend: "There is little to say about how I wrote this. It came out of the top of my head when I was 18 and a half. It seems to be about the frustrations of a young person who is so incoherent and uneducated that he can't state his case to the bourgeois intellectual blah blah blah. Or, of course, it might be about drugs."
I was under the impression that this song wasn't simply about not being able to express your love for someone, but also not being able to express yourself. (and of course, other things too :P)
Townshend: "There is little to say about how I wrote this. It came out of the top of my head when I was 18 and a half. It seems to be about the frustrations of a young person who is so incoherent and uneducated that he can't state his case to the bourgeois intellectual blah blah blah. Or, of course, it might be about drugs."
(Source: http://www.thewho.net/linernotes/MBBB.htm)