Mr. Townshend
Pete townshend, “pure and easy”
who came first 1972
I was in a CVS a few years back when this piece came over the store musak station. I stopped shopping and stood listening to it like I had never heard it before. It’s your turn to experience Mr. Townshend’s pop masterclass, commingling the surges, crescendoes, acoustics and Meher Baba philosophy that inhabited his solo projects just three years after the release of “Tommy.” So step over into the pain killer aisle where it’s “pure and easy.”
“There once was a note, pure and easy
Playing so free like a breath rippling by
The note is eternal, I hear it, it sees me
Forever we blend it, forever we die
I listened and I heard music in a word
And words when you played your guitar
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me riding in a star
As people assemble
Civilization is trying to find a new way to die
But killing is really merely scene changer
All men are bored with other men’s lies
I listened and I heard music in a word
And words when you played your guitar
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me riding in a star
We all know success, when we all find our own dreams
And our love is enough to knock down any walls
And the future’s been seen as men try to realize
The simple secret of the note in us all, in us all
Today is the day
that sound travels mountains
glowing, going each man in its wake
destroying itself in the end with vibration
there’s nothin on earth its challenge can take
accepting one note, accepting one note
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
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