I stood at the door beside her
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But she wouldn't let me pass
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I was such a bore and I lied to her
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I said I didn't really want her ass
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I went away in the mud and rain
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The gang became snide and laughed
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I was slayed, but I smiled and the pain
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Began to subside at last
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And when I got back to my hotel
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I wondered if the thunder meant I'd landed in hell
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And on the forecourt I slipped and fell
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I cracked my stupid head and I heard a bell
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I thought, hey
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Somebody saved me, it happened again
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Somebody saved me, I thank you my friend
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Somebody saved me, from a fate worse than heaven
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'Cause if I'd had her for just an hour
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I'd have wanted her forever
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Somebody saved me
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You would have thought that I'd have learned
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Twenty years ago or more
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A beautiful girl raised her mouth and yearned
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But I didn't know what lips were for
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I ran away in the mud and rain
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The weather here is never too bright
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She'd had an affray with her man and came
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For solace and the means to fight
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She finally bored with seducing me
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And took up with some geezer from the Ealing scene
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It nearly killed him like it would've killed me
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When her original man snapped his fingers and she obeyed, she obeyed
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But somebody saved me, it happened again
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Somebody saved me, I thank you my friend
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Somebody saved me, from a fate worse than heaven
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'Cause if I'd had her for just an hour
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I'd have wanted her forever
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I don't know about guardian angels
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All I know about's staying alive
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I can't shout about spiritual labels
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When little ones die and big ones thrive
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All I know is that I've been making it
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And there've been times that I didn't deserve to
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Every show there's been more faking it
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But right at the point of no return
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Somebody saves me, again and again
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Somebody saves me, I thank you my friend
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Somebody saves me, from a fate worse than heaven
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'Cause if I blew it for a single moment
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I'd blow it forever
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But somebody saves me
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I took up the connection once
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Made me feel quite aloof
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I never could queue to collect my lunch
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While I was pursuing the truth
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So I left my folks in the mud and rain
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It always rains in Sunnyside Road
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I lived hippy jokes, getting stoned insane
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'Till the rain looked just like snow
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But there was a soul in whom I could depend
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He worked himself crazy while I laid in bed
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I never leaned on a person like I leaned right then
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And when I finally woke up clean
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My friend was dead, stone dead
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Somebody saved me, it happened again
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Somebody saved me, I thank you my friend
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Somebody saved me, I ain't ready for heaven
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'Cause if I'd seen you for a second I'd have wanted to see you forever
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Somebody saved me
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Somebody saved me
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Somebody Saved Me
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Pete Townshend |