@ALBUM: Psychoderelict Artist: Pete Townshend 1993 Atlantic Records All selections by Pete Townshend unless noted. NOTE: I have transcribed the lyrics to the songs only, since most of this album is dialogue. Consequently, all the songs marked "instrumental" have spoken dialogue over them on the album. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: English Boy I'm an English boy I was brought up right Hold me down And I will bite I know no fear I serve with joy I'm proud to be here An English boy I feel like a stray dog Blurred like a movie You say you've come to arrest me But you're just trying to test me I'm bored with your prejudice Spreading like a fever Your promises to train me Are just attempts to restrain me I'm an English boy Precisely made Pin me down I am not afraid I show no fear I will serve with joy I'm proud to be here An English boy Use me like a headline Cut pieces to pieces I'm balack on the tube liine Red on the touch-line Freezing the future Stopping every stopwatch You say we're moving like an oil slick Thicker than a house brick I'm an English boy I was brought up right If you raise your dress Then I will bite My voice is clear I got perfect poise Good to be down here With all the English boys And I don't know where I am now Or where I'm gonna go I just keep going round and round on the circle line Like some demented kind of fool in the mirror Trying to avoid paying for my ticket I'm a lsot soul I read about myself in the newspapers I'm a pig I'm a thug I've got nowhere to go but down Feel like I'm kicking at a dead man Kicking in the chorus I'm broken by hatred While politicians just ignore us You never gave me any value You didn't give me any reason There's no tools and no toys For any English boys I'm an English boy I was brought up right Hold me down And I will bite I know no fear I serve with joy I'm proud to be here An English boy I'm an English boy No tools, no toys for any English boys ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Meher Baba M3 ---Instrumental--- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Let's Get Pretentious Let's get pretentious Put on an act Let's get portentous Embroider fact Exaggerate it Dress up the bland Let's overrate it Let the critics be damned Let's get sensuous Put on some some airs Let's drink kahluas All bored on the stairs Let's get excited When we say hello Let's be delighted Though it's nobody we know I don't know much But I know what I like I don't know much But so and so said such and such Let's find a market For sparkling wit Let's make a target Of anyone with a hit Let'skeep some secrets Let's make them up Put them together Then break them up I don't know much But I know what I like ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Meher Baba M4 (Signal Box) ---Instrumental--- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Early Morning Dreams You are safe from harm on the grid You are safe from harm This is the dream that I wake up dreaming Lovin' my lover under dawn-pink skies A perfect design that I wake up scheming What I recall when I first open my eyes This is the tune that you're always hearing What you'll remember when you've broken the ties We're dancing together as the sun is appearing Again and again you awake in surprise Early morning dreams You feel so tender-you feel so wet You feel so secure=so deep in love and yet the feeling is fleeting You're a fugitive, safe at last Your heart is a-beating Will you relive the recent past? Early morning dreams come true I've proved it now that I'm here with you You are here by my side I'm siding with you Early morning dreams come true ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: I Want That Thing Free ride to the house of life Free ride to the house of life I work hard at my job I save and I save I know what I deserve After all that I gave You know I want that thing You know I want that thing Put aside a little money Almost every day When I think that I'm close It just gets further away You know I want that thing I want that thing Free ride to the house of life I want that thing Don't know if it's truth Don't know if it's lies I just can't be aloof To what you advertise You know I want that thing I want that thing I can't wait Any longer to choose If I can't get my own Gonna have to take yourse from youze I want that thing I really want that thing Free ride to the house of life-I want that thing I wanna free ride ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Dialogue Introduction to "Outlive the Dinosaur" ---Instrumental--- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Outlive the Dinosaur I breathe My throat clenches Clutching to exclude A dozen different stenches In Falmouth Bay A blue whale rolls Gonna drown in the swill >From city sewer holes Summers longer Deltas gashed Ancient trees Uprooted, smashed Time is generous-more, take more I must outrun the dinosaur A silent temple Marble-hard Decays and softens Battle-scarred A relic deaf To bits and streams And polo-necks And pefect jeans Obsessed with silence Spiked by noise I hold my son I plan our toys Time expansive-more, take more I must outlive the dinosaur Rising rivers Drown new shoots Words and breath In death cahoots The strong surivive To wean more brutes Who grow and seed Extend their roots Cowards, bombs And scab recruits Like monkeys trapped In monkey suits Time is plentiful-more, take more I must outfight the dinosaur ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Flame (Demo) (Simon Townshend/Josh Phillips-Gorse/Gavin Lewis/Mark Brzezicki/Jaz Lochrie) You shone a light to follow Knowing I would You gracd me with a precious gift That no one else could Touched by your presence I surrender You gave me a lead and I was a follower A chance to succeed, I am a discoverer Flame! You set me on fire Nothing can take me any higher I'm fueled on emtion and full of desire Flame! Show me the way ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Now and Then Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love You can't do a thing about it In you I saw someone that I recognized Had no idea what was in your mind I met your eyes and I was hypnotized I let our lives become entwined I feel so badly darlin' all the time I have tortured yo uso long But I am helpless in this pantomime I am aware that I was wrong Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love You can't do a thing about it For though you knew that I was twice your age To make you laugh seemed you enough I thought we'd love and then and then you'd turn the page I'd have to suffer your rebuff And it was me who had the most to gain Despite the fact that I now have lost The only love that ever caused me pain I feel like a double head was tossed Now and the you see a soul and you fall in love And you can't do a thing about it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: I Am Afraid I stand beside you I face the future I'll admit to you I am afraid I am afraid As I stand beside you I have denied you I am afraid I am not drunk now I am not pilled down My windows wound down I am not brainwashed I am not running I am not hiding My bet's still riding I am afraid I swing you high-o I swing you low-a I watch your eye-o I watch you grow-a I hear you crying Your brother's dying Be no more lying I am afraid I am afraid As I stand beside you I have denied you I am afraid I stand beside you I face the future I'll admit to you I am afraid By my religion I stand here naked I cannot take it With God as witness My little children Who wait for feedin' I watch you bleedin' I am afraid I am afraid As I stand beside you I have denied you I am afraid I stand beside you I face the future I'll admit to you I am afraid ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Don't Try to Make Me Real Make me of clay, make me oof steel But whetever you do don't try and make me real Make me your dream, a secretive deal But don't ever scheme to try and make me real CHORUS Stop trying to make me real I haven't got the kind of heart a lover can steal Stop crying, I just can't feel Any sympathy for someone trying to make me real Make me of shit in a two-tenner deal Make me of pornography in a pedophile wheel Whatever I do, whatever I feel By your double standard I will never be real CHORUS Why can't you settle for a fantasy? You're so convinced that I'm the man to see I can't live up to What you give up to I fail to see the perfect man in me Make me from your magazine a listed ideal Dress me in the doll's house your knickers conceal Make me your brother-lover beau-ideal But you will soon discover lover can't be real CHORUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Dialogue Introduction to "Predictable" ---Instrumental--- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Predictable Your love is so predictable I can rely on you to blow my brain You always know which trick to pull I can prdict you'll drive me wild-insane CHORUS Your love is so predictable Your body's so delectable I know for sure I'm gonna be amazed You get me so erectable I can predict you're gonna leave me raised CHORUS Your love is always so theatrical My performance better make you rave Or I will have to hear the cat-you-call I know how bad you misbehave Your love is so predictable It's just like climbing in a laser plane You always know wich trick to pull Just as I'm driving deep down again Your love is always so theatrical My performance better make you rave Or I will have to hear the cat-you-call I know how bad you misbehave Most lovers' lovin' is heart-a-beatin' it Depends on a tension to keep intact This lover's lovin' is hard to beat it Will a'lend pretnetions to the matter of fact Your love is so predictable You take this Taurus boy by the horn But you know how to tick the bull I can predict you're gonna have me torn Your love is always so theatrical My performance better make you rave Or I will have to hear the cat-you-call I know how bad you misbehave CHORUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Flame (Simon Townshend/Josh Phillips-Gorse/Gavin Lewis/Mark Brzezicki/Jaz Lochrie) You shone like a light to follow Knowing I would You graced me with a precious gift That no one else could Touched by your presence I surrender You gave me a lead and I was a follower A chance to succeed, I am a discoverer Flame! You set me on fire Nothing can take me any higher I'm fueled on emotion and full of desire Flame! Show me the way ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Meher Baba M5 (Vivaldi) ---Instrumental--- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Fake It (Pete Townshend/Jon Astley/Billy Nichols/Jon Lind) You can fake it Hold my hand If you take it I will understand I don't care if you fake it I don't give a damn I don't care if you fake it Don't you understand You might laugh at me later But why not smile at me now Don't ever feel like a traitor You're not letting me down Fake it, fake it I can take it Love's just an end, it's the means we feel Fake it, fake it I can make it Why not pretend that your love is real Why not fake it? I'm going to ask you to act it Don't let me see if you're bored If you use the right tactic You will hear me applaud I don't mind what you're thinking I'll just guess what you feel Don't regret you've been drinking To make your pleasure look real Fake it, fake it I can take it I don't believe in eternity Fake it, fake it Help me make it I've taken leave of all dignity Why not fake it? I am prepared to put up with this Because I love you so much And I know that you probably don't love me in the same way But if you care for me at all Then take me in your arms Fabricate the way you feel I'll just pretend that it's allfor real Fake it anyway You can fake it Hold my had If you fake it I will understand ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Dialogue Introduction to "Now and Then (Reprise)" ---Instrumental--- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Now and Then (Reprise) ---Instrumental--- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Baba O'Riley (Demo) ---Instrumental--- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: English Boy (Reprise) I was an English boy I was brought up right You cold hold me down And I would bite I knew no fear I served with joy I was proud to be here An English boy You spray like a tomcat Piss like a stray dog Swear like a sailor Speaking in gang tongues Kicking in chorus Stabbing to order Slashing like a blind man Lost like a soldier I was an English boy Precisely made Yo ucould pin me down I was not afraid I showed no fear I served with joy I was so proud to be here An English boy Blurred like a movie Grey under streetlights Grey in the sunshine Black on the tube line Red on the touchline Moving like a fever Spreading like an oil slick Thicker than a house brick I was an English boy I was brough up right IF you raised your dress Then I would bite My voice was celar I had perfect poise Was good to be down here With all the English boys And I don't know where I am now Or where I'm gonna go I keep going round and round on the circle line Like some demented kid of a fool in the mirror Trying to avoid paying for my ticket I'm a lost soul I read about myself in the newspapers I'm a pig I'm a thug I've got nowhere to go but down Stand up when I'm talking to you boy Stand up, stand up, stand up! Slow like a prejudice Broken like a hatred Kicking at a dead man Cut pieces to pieces Marking your territory Freezing the future Stopping the stopwatch I am despairing I was an English boy I was brought up right You could hold me down And I would bite I knew no fear I served with joy I was proud to be here An English boy I was an English boy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ Eric Wincentsen 267@ef.gc.maricopa.edu Glendale Community College Glendale, Arizona "Do you read Sutter Cane?"