Pure and Easy-Pete Townshend

There once was a note pure and easy Playing so free like a breathe rippling by The note is eternal I hear it, it sees me Forever we blend as 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 lives 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 Gas on the hillside Oil in the tea cup Watch all the chords of life lose their joy Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness The note that began all can also destroy We all know success when we all find our own dream And our love is enough to knock down any wall And the future's been seen as men try to realize The simple secret of the note in us all In us all 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 Today is the day the sound curdles mountains Flowing and blowing each man in its wake Destroying itself in the end with vibration There's nothing on earth it's challenge can take Excepting one note Excepting one note pure and easy Playing so free like breath rippling by Excepting one note Excepting one note Excepting one note, pure and easy Excepting one note, pure and easy (repeated) There once was a note listen There once was a note listen There once was a note listen There once was a note listen