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