Guitar And Pen (Olympic '78 Mix)-The Who

[00:00.000] [00:26.172]You're alone above the street somewhere [00:30.854]Wondering how you'll ever count out there [00:35.633]You can walk, you can talk, you can fight [00:38.543]But inside you've got something to write [00:40.926]In your hand you hold your only friend [00:43.253]Never spend your guitar or your pen [00:46.779]Your guitar or your pen [00:49.136]Your guitar or your pen [00:51.398]Your guitar or your pen [00:53.808]Your guitar or your pen [00:55.089]When you take up a pencil and sharpen it up [00:57.424]When you're kicking the fence and still nothing will budge [01:00.598]When the words are immobile until you sit down [01:03.917]Never feel they're worth keeping, they're not easily found [01:07.200]Then you know in some strange, unexplainable way [01:10.296]You must really have something [01:12.674]Jumping, thumping, fighting, hiding away [01:18.063]Important to say [01:37.718]When you sing through the verse and you end in a scream [01:40.956]And you swear and you curse 'cause the rhyming ain't clean [01:44.153]But it suddenly comes after years of delay [01:47.227]You pick up your guitar, you can suddenly play [01:50.397]When your fingers are bleeding and the knuckles are white [01:53.433]Then you can be sure, you can open the door [01:56.938]Get off of the floor tonight [02:01.102]You have something to write [02:21.729]When you want to complain, there's no one can stop you [02:27.756]But when your music proclaims, there's no one can top you [02:34.239]You are wearing you heart on your jumping feet [02:40.572]You've got a head start away from the street [02:50.348]But is that what you want, to be rich and be gone? [02:56.417]Could be there's just one thing left in the end [03:04.820]Your guitar and your pen [03:24.807]When you sing to your mum, and you hum and you croon [03:27.671]And she says that she'd like it 'with more of a tune' [03:31.141]And you smash your guitar at the end of the bed [03:34.069]Then you stick it together and start writing again [03:37.452]And you know that it won't be too long 'til your back [03:40.438]To bring her some money, she's calling you 'honey' [03:45.922]Stashed in a bloody great sack [03:48.176]In your Cadillac [04:43.509]You're alone [04:48.502]You're alone [04:53.036]You're alone above the street somewhere [04:58.055]Wondering how you'll ever count out there [05:03.069]You can walk, you can talk, you can fight [05:05.625]But inside you've got something to write [05:07.942]In your hand you hold your only friend [05:10.286]Never spend your guitar or your pen [05:13.752]Your guitar or your pen