The Seeker Lyrics
I've looked under tables
I've tried to find the key
To fifty million fables
They call me The Seeker
I've been searching low and high
I won't get to get what I'm after
Till the day I die
I asked The Beatles
I asked Timothy Leary
But he couldn't help me either
Cause I never smile
As I ransack their homes
They want to shake my hand
Investigating miles
I'm a seeker
I'm a really desperate man
Till the day I die
Yeah, but look at my face, ain't this a smile?
I'm happy when life's good
And when it's bad I cry
I've got values but I don't know how or why
You're looking for you
We're looking at each other
And we don't know what to do
Off Wiki: Around the time of song's release, Townshend explained its meaning in an interview with Rolling Stone: "Quite loosely, "The Seeker" was just a thing about what I call Divine Desperation, or just Desperation. And what it does to people. It just kind of covers a whole area where the guy's being fantastically tough and ruthlessly nasty and he's being incredibly selfish and he's hurting people, wrecking people's homes, abusing his heroes, he's accusing everyone of doing nothing for him and yet at the same time he's making a fairly valid statement, he's getting nowhere, he's doing nothing and the only thing he really can't be sure of is his death, and that at least dead, he's going to get what he wants. He thinks!"
I think this song is about a person who is still searching for their place in life. When he says he has asked Bobby Dylan, The Beatles, Timothy Leary.. has is talking about how he has looked around in his environment for role models on how to live his life. So far no where he has looked has provided him with answers. The fact that he says he won't get to get what he is after until the day he dies is basically him saying he doesn't believe he'll know how to live his life.. (or find the secret to life, that is) until he has lived it and dies. (Whether that means he thinks there is a god who will tell him.. or he will be able to look back and figure out what worked.. he doesn't say). He is a "really desperate man" to figure out where to go from here, though.
this is the one song that is my entire philosphy on life this is exsclly what i think about every thing me and a 1000 others we are "the seekers"
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Dude. I love this song. I call myself the seeker all the time. I am the seeker whether it be for truth, love, or life.
Dude I'm one of those people. I love this song becuase i call myself "the seeker". It doesn't matter if it's for truth, love, or life.
An ode for the youth of the nation and it still has meaning for all time. I first heard this song while I was watching American Beauty. It was the scene introducing the final act of the film. Great, great song for a great, great movie!
ROCKING SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love this song, it's pretty self explanatory. Came about after Tommy, when the Who were facing the dilemma of how they would oversome the success of Tommy.
I think this song may be about psychadelic drugs...Not a big leap for the Who, and there is generally a feeling of needing to accomplish something, but you can't figure out what it is. You need to be somewhere, but you have no idea where. The reference to Timothy Leary also adds to this, as he was one of the biggest proponets of the benefits of LSD use.
"I won't get to get what I'm after Till the day I die"
existentialism, perchance?
As a truth seeker, this song makes total sense to me. In my righteous indignation, I search low and high, with my values I don't know how I got them. Of course it angers everyone! Most hide from the truth, while I am the mirror who makes them see the truth in themselves. And they are RIGHT to be pissed at me! What a jerk LOL.