Year: 1973 - Album: Quadrophenia
Written by Townshend
{acoustic out} |E E |E E | |E E |Am D |E When a man is running from his boss who holds a gun that fires "cost" E |Am D |E And people die from being old or left alone because they're cold E | And bombs are dropped on fighting Am |D |E cats and children's dreams are run with rats E |Am D |(E) If you complain you disappear just like the lesbians and queers |E E |Am D |E E |Am D (E)| {acoustic in} |E E E E E |Am Am D |E No one can love without the grace of some unseen and distant face E E E E |Am Am D |E And you get beaten up by blacks who though they work still got the sack E E E E |Am Am D E|E And when your soul tells you to hide your very right to die's denied E E E E |Am Am D E|E And in the battle on the streets you fight computers and receipts E E E E |Am Am D E |E And when a man is trying to change it only causes further pain {acoustic out} E E E E|Am Am D D |D | | You realize that all along something in us going wrong