He sits so silently, hours before the winter sun s ignited
Light be enlightened, tommy doesn t know what day it is
Surrounded by his friends, to see what boxes are for free The, including heaven s generosity
Light be enlightened, hours before the winter sun s ignited
And smiles and pokes his tongue at everything, picks his nose
to see what boxes are for free
Picks his nose, doesn t know who jesus was or what praying is
waking up on christmas morning
Did you ever see the faces of the children, but how can men who ve never seen Who, they believe in dreams and all they mean
Surrounded by his friends, in curiosity
including heaven s generosity
And unaware of everything, including heaven s generosity
Tommy doesn t know what day it is, and unaware of everything
Tommy doesn t know what day it is, including heaven s generosity
how can he be saved from the eternal grave
I believe in love, to see what boxes are for free
I believe in love, surrounded by his friends
but how can men who ve never seen
How can he be saved from the eternal grave, picks his nose Who, doesn t know who jesus was or what praying is
but how can men who ve never seen
Including heaven s generosity, waking up on christmas morning The, they get so excited
Tommy doesn t know what day it is, will his spirit s future level ever heighten, peeping round the door
i believe in love
they get so excited
anyone notice... we find out "how men who've never seen light" can be enlightened. it happened from within... from out of his silence and Tommy's inner self.
1:53 is the first I had ever heard of The Who. It was trippy as hell and an amazing musical piece. So... I decided to eat 9 grams of shrooms and listen to the entire album. Yeah... It went as well as you would expect. 3:03 is the exact musical movement that set off my bad trip and by 3:12 I was in full on PANIC mode. I seriously lost my shit when the song got to that musical movement. The guitar chords during that section were so unsettling and disparaging that I literally had a bad trip and became convinced that I wasn't breathing after listening to that music... Which makes it one of my favorite songs of all time. If a song was powerful enough to send me into a full blown bad trip, then it is one of my favorite songs automatically!
When The Who recorded "A Quick One" they couldn't arrange for the cello section they wanted for one of the song segments, so they vocalized cello-cello-cello-cello instead. With this song they sing gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble to conjure up images of a Christmas turkey dinner. Presumably because they were not able to arrange for live turkeys in the studio.
Tommy for me is half about Moons hilariously genius drumming throughout and the other half is the rest of the band, lyrics, singing etc. But Keiths drumming is only part of the overall majesty of the percussion heard on Tommy. The tuning and the miking of Moons Premier kit is also completely incredible and as revolutionary as his playing. Nobody before or since in recorded music had toms that had such depth and resonance. Pete Townshend didn't consider Keith a proper drummer in the "normal" definition of the word. What Moon did to the drums was something not akin to actually drumming according to Pete. He's correct on both accounts. Moon was a supreme innovator on the drumkit and what made sense to him as far as tuning the kit and where to place the accents and beats and fills were all done in the service of the music the Who were making as a whole as Moon saw fit. I think Townshend knew exactly how lucky he was to have such an adventurous percussionist to help separate the music the Who were making from all that had come before or since.
THE WHO ; THEY ROCK SO GOOD ,... the tightest musicianship ,..the greatest songs,..the greatest albums ,..one right after the next; they blow away the competition ,... every band copied them; Rush, Genesis , Yes, Led Zep, ,..even the Beatles tried to be like the who ; ROCK'S NUMBER ONE GENIUS BAND !!