No Way Out (However Much I Booze)-Pete Townshend

No Way Out (However Much I Booze) - Pete Townshend I watch myself on TV I'm a faker, a paper clown It's clear to all my friends that I habitually lie I just bring them down I claim proneness to exaggeration But the truth lies in my frustration The children of the night all pass me by Have to dress myself up in brandy, in sleep I hide But I don't care how much I booze There ain't no way out There ain't no way out Don't care what you say boy There ain't no way out I lose so many nights of sleep Worrying about my responsibility All the problems that screw me up Down to him or me? My ego will just confuse me One day it's going to up and use me Dish me out another tailor-made compliment Tell me about some destiny I can't prevent, however much I squirm There ain't no way out There ain't no way out I don't care what you say boy There ain't no way out, there ain't no way out And the night comes down like a cell door closing Suddenly, I realize that I'm writing now more honestly While all alone with a bottle and my head up floating Far away from the phone and the conscience Going on at me and on at me And I don't care what you say There ain't no way out, no way out There ain't no way out, just try There ain't no way out There ain't no way out There ain't no way out ... I walk into a club And know one seems to know me I have to tell the story of my life To keep from being thrown out there and then It all seems so futile Can I live if some shy stud once disowned me? Can't face the fact that once you open up for real You become ambivalent But once they let you in There ain't no way out There ain't no way out I don't care what you say boy, there ain't no way out Take it from me Now the walls are all clawed and scratched Like by some soul, insane In the morning, I hung-overly detach myself I'll take no blame I just can't face my failure I'm nothing but a well f**ked sailor You at home can easily decide what's right By glancing over so briefly at what I write But it don't help me that you know There ain't no way out, no way out There ain't no way out I don't care what you say, there ain't no way out There ain't no way out, there ain't no way out There ain't no way out, there ain't no way out