The Who Lyrics

    ------ About the song Behind Blue Eyes performed by The Who

to me it is about Jesus, who we can never be ,we can never feel what he felt when he had to die. listen to Keith Jarret's song "You don't know what love is" Concert in Deer Head Inn.To me it is the next song after the WHO's to listen. L U ALL. Did you liked the song?

    ------ About the song You Better You Bet performed by The Who

I used to listen to this song over and over again in my late teens really not knowing the words just the music and the great piano licks in the background. I know I am getting old when the music I like is on the oldies radio station. After looking up the lyrics on the internet it’s shows a part of life that almost every man in one way or another abused our bodies and our minds. Most of use had gone through that faze. Gentlemen, we all have to live it in one way or another in order to move on to a more mature part of our lives. If some men don’t than they are condemned to repeat it over and over again. Pete, you laid out the words that most young men are thinking.
P.S. I bet T-Rex go more marketing from this song.

    ------ About the song Eminence Front performed by The Who

Just as with "Won't Get Fooled Again", these lyrics are timeless. They applied to the court of Gengis Khan, they applied to the Roman Emperor's orgies, they applied to Hitler, his henchmen, and his officers as they danced in the Eagle's Nest, and it applied to my generation, the baby boomers, who had protested in the 60's and early 70's and made much-need change happen but now were largely going for the gold and the power Monday to Friday and partying their brains away on the weekend.

And the behaviours continue to repeat to this very day....I mean, how many times has the stock market crashed since the late 70's? and who REALLY suffered for it every time?

    ------ About the song Won't Get Fooled Again performed by The Who

I find it so ironic that the generation that Townsend was singing this to has become the bankers, politicians, CEO's, and military manufacturers that have continued to promote or enable the serious inequalities that exist in the United Kingdom and the USA. These baby-boomers are the ones who have sent British, American, and Canadian youth overseas to fight wars over access to oil and other resources. It is the majority of Townsend's generation that has pushed the politics of every party in much of Europe and all of North America to the right, and entered other sovereign nations to dispense with rebels or put their choice for a leader into power. The very same people who sang this song with great enthusiasm in the 70's now work hard to squash any large scale movements criticizing the government and have successfully bought out the press or controlled it by other means...

Meet the new boss....same as the old boss....!!

    ------ About the song Sally Simpson performed by The Who

It is a song written as a reaction to Jim Morrison's capacity to control the audiences. You can find all about it in the Jim Morrison - Life, Death, Legend book in Book 2, Innocent Bystander.

    ------ About the song Baba O'Riley performed by The Who

This song makes me change my onlook on life for the time i hear it atleast...i first heard this song on CSI:NY and it made me feel that some thing is still out there which is worth living for and its called music...

    ------ About the song You Better You Bet performed by The Who

It's easy to dismiss this song as an exercise in denial -- denial of alcoholism or drug abuse -- with lyrics that describe a man who only shows up late at night, drunk, "so eager to fight [it] can't make letting me in any easier." And then, there's the ultimate verse of denial:
"I know I been wearing crazy clothes / and I look pretty crappy sometimes / But my body feels so good / and I still sing a razor line every time".
That lyric just begs for a challenge. REALLY, Pete? Your body feels so good, you can't stare into the mirror long enough to shave? And we're to take your word for it that your singing is better than ever, when you don't even sing any leads on the entire Face Dances album, much less this song?
It's a matter of record that Pete Townshend went through his "bad boy" phase later in life than most of his peers, late 70s and early 80s. But count on a guy like Townshend to get a hit song out of it!

    ------ About the song It's Not True performed by The Who

This is a credits correction, not a review, but I didn't know where else to send it.

You have credited the writing of this song - "It's Not True" by The Who - to "GILKS, MARTIN RICHARD / HUNT, MILES STEPHEN / JONES, ROBERT / TREECE, MALCOLM ROY". That is incorrect; it was, in fact, written by Pete Townsend of The Who and recorded by The Who in 1965, the year in which Martin Gilks was born! The Gilks/Hunt/Jones/Treece composition you have in mind is "It's Not True" by The Wonder Stuff - an entirely different song.

    ------ About the song Happy Jack performed by The Who

According to Pete. Happy Jack was actually a guy who was on the beach in the Isle of Man. Pete did go to the Isle of Man as a kid for holidays. and at the end if you listen properly its I saw ya Brian. Brian being one of the roadies who used to come into the studio and try and get something onto the tracks

    ------ About the song Pictures of Lily performed by The Who

"Pictures of Lily" hit me like a bolt from the blue the first time I heard it as a very young girl. I didn't know why I loved it, I just knew it made me feel something visceral even at my tender age, something that the Beatles, even the Stones couldn't make me feel. A thousand listens later every note still thrills me. If you love The 'Oo, you owe it to yourself to watch them do "Listening To You" at Woodstock. A pivotal moment in rock history. Daltrey solves my childhood problem EVERY time;)