Somebody Saved Me-Pete Townshend

[ti:Somebody Saved Me] [ar:Pete Townshend] [al:All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Somebody Saved Me - Pete Townshend [00:03.55]Written by：Pete Townsh [00:07.10]I stood at the door beside her [00:09.14] [00:09.96]But she wouldn't let me pass [00:11.78] [00:12.59]I was such a bore and I lied to her [00:14.98] [00:15.49]I said I didn't really want her ass [00:17.66] [00:18.75]I went away in the mud and rain [00:21.61]The gang became snide and laughed [00:23.77] [00:24.97]I was slain but I smiled and the pain [00:27.53]Began to subside at last [00:29.53] [00:30.46]And when I got back to my hotel [00:33.44]I wondered if the thunder meant I'd landed in hell [00:36.46]And on the forecourt I slipped and fell [00:39.28]I cracked my stupid head and I heard a bell [00:41.98]I thought hey [00:43.24] [00:47.59]Somebody saved me it happened again [00:51.86] [00:53.21]Somebody saved me I thank you my friend [00:58.26] [00:59.04]Somebody saved me [01:01.18] [01:01.81]From a fate worse than heaven [01:03.77] [01:05.47]'Cause if I'd had her for just an hour [01:07.77]I'd have wanted her forever [01:09.57] [01:11.06]Somebody saved me [01:14.25] [01:18.08]You would have thought that I'd have learned [01:20.15] [01:20.76]Twenty years ago or more [01:22.33] [01:23.68]A beautiful girl raised her mouth and yearned [01:25.79]But I didn't know what lips were for [01:28.20] [01:29.40]I ran away in the mud and rain [01:32.14]The weather here is never too bright [01:34.20] [01:35.20]She'd had an affray with her man and came [01:38.17]For solace and the means to fight [01:40.32] [01:41.09]She finally bored with seducing me [01:43.78]And took up with some [01:44.96]Geezer from the ealing scene [01:47.02]It nearly killed him like it would've killed me [01:49.88]When her original man snapped [01:51.26]His fingers and she obeyed she obeyed [01:56.57] [01:57.64]But somebody saved me it happened again [02:02.50] [02:03.43]Somebody saved me I thank you my friend [02:08.64] [02:09.42]Somebody saved me from a fate worse than heaven [02:14.09] [02:15.88]'Cause if I'd had her for just an hour [02:18.20]I'd have wanted her forever [02:19.94] [02:22.77]I don't know about guardian angels [02:25.31]All I know about's staying alive [02:27.81] [02:28.51]I can't shout about spiritual labels [02:30.97]When little ones die and big ones thrive [02:34.14]All I know is that I've been making it [02:36.77]And there've been times that I didn't deserve to [02:39.30] [02:39.86]Every show there's been more faking it [02:42.38]But right at the point of no return [02:44.81]Somebody saves me again and again [02:48.82] [02:49.98]Somebody saves me I thank you my friend [02:55.13] [02:55.93]Somebody saves me [02:57.92] [02:58.62]From a fate worse than heaven [03:00.62] [03:02.31]'Cause if I blew it for a single moment [03:04.85]I'd blow it forever [03:06.33] [03:07.71]But somebody saves me [03:09.83] [03:14.82]I took up the connection once [03:16.88] [03:17.54]Made me feel quite aloof [03:19.20] [03:20.34]I never could queue to collect my lunch [03:23.19]While I was pursuing the truth [03:24.75] [03:25.73]So I left my folks in the mud and rain [03:28.81]It always rains in Sunnyside Road [03:31.07] [03:31.71]I lived hippy jokes getting stoned insane [03:34.57]Till the rain looked just like snow [03:36.60] [03:37.77]But there was a soul in whom I could depend [03:40.74]He worked himself crazy while I laid in bed [03:43.37]I never leaned on a person like I leaned right then [03:46.26]And when I finally woke up clean [03:48.65]My friend was dead stone dead [03:52.58] [03:54.22]Somebody saved me it happened again [03:58.67] [03:59.99]Somebody saved me I thank you my friend [04:05.15] [04:05.70]Somebody saved me I ain't ready for heaven [04:10.70] [04:12.27]'Cause if I'd seen you for a second [04:14.09]I'd have wanted to see you forever [04:16.52] [04:17.43]Somebody saved me [04:20.06] [04:40.65]Somebody saved me