Guitar And Pen Lyrics

Guitar And Pen

(Townshend)   You're alone above the street somewhere  Wondering how you'll ever
count out there   You can walk, you can talk, you can fight  But inside you've
got something to write  In your hand you hold your only friend  Never spend
your guitar or your pen  Your guitar or your pen  Your guitar or your pen  Your
guitar or your pen  Your guitar or your pen   When you take up a pencil and
sharpen it up  When you're kicking the fence and still nothing will budge  When
the words are immobile until you sit down  Never feel they're worth keeping,
they're not easily found  Then you know in some strange, unexplainable way  You
must really have something  Jumping, thumping, fighting, hiding away  Important
to say   When you sing through the verse and you end in a scream  And you swear
and you curse 'cause the rhyming ain't clean  But it suddenly comes after years
of delay  You pick up your guitar, you can suddenly play  When your fingers are
bleeding and the knuckles are white  Then you can be sure, you can open the door
 Get off of the floor tonight  You have something to write   When you want to
complain, there's no one can stop you  But when your music proclaims, there's
no one can top you  You are wearing you heart on your jumping feet  You've got
a head start away from the street   But is that what you want, to be rich and
be gone?  Could be there's just one thing left in the end  Your guitar and your
pen   When you sing to your mum, and you hum and you croon  And she says that
she'd like it "with more of a tune"  And you smash your guitar at the end of
the bed  Then you stick it together and start writing again  And you know that
it won't be too long 'til your back  To bring her some money, she's calling you
"honey"  Stashed in a bloody great sack  In your Cadillac   You're alone  You're
alone   You're alone above the street somewhere  Wondering how you'll ever count
out there   You can walk, you can talk, you can fight  But inside you've got
something to write  In your hand you hold your only friend  Never spend your
guitar or your pen  Your guitar or your pen Your guitar or your pen  Your
guitar or your pen  Your guitar or your pen  Your guitar or your pen  Your
guitar or your pen  Your guitar or your pen   Never spend your guitar or your
pen