Somebody Saved Me
Pete Townshend

I stood at the door beside her
But she wouldn't let me pass
I was such a bore and I lied to her
I said I didn't really want her ass

I went away in the mud and rain
The gang became snide and laughed
I was slayed but I smiled and the pain
Began to subside at last

And when I got back to my hotel
I wondered if the thunder meant I'd landed in hell
And on the forecourt I slipped and fell
I cracked my stupid head and I heard a bell
I thought, hey

Somebody saved me
It happened again
Somebody saved me
I thank you my friend
Somebody saved me
From a fate worse than heaven

'Cause if I'd had her for just an hour
I'd have wanted her forever
Somebody saved me

You would have thought that I'd have learned
Twenty years ago or more
A beautiful girl raised her mouth and yearned
But I didn't know what lips were for

I ran away in the mud and rain
The weather here is never too bright
She'd had an affray with her man and came
For solace and the means to fight

She finally bored with seducing me
And took up with some geezer from the ealing scene
It nearly killed him like it would've killed me
When her original man snapped his fingers
And she obeyed, she obeyed

But somebody saved me
It happened again
Somebody saved me, yeah
I thank you my friend
Somebody saved me
From a fate worse than heaven

'Cause if I'd had her for just an hour
I'd have wanted her forever

I don't know about guardian angels
All I know abouts staying alive
I can't shout about spiritual labels
When little ones die and big ones thrive

All I know is that I've been making it
And there have been times that I didn't deserve to
Every show there's been more faking it
But right at the point of no return

Somebody saves me
Again and again
Somebody saves me
I thank you my friend
Somebody saves me
From a fate worse than heaven

'Cause if I blew it for a single moment
I'd blow it forever
But somebody saves me

I took up the connection once
Made me feel quite aloof
I never could queue to collect my lunch
While I was pursuing the truth

So I left my folks in the mud and rain
It always rains in Sunny side road
I lived hippy jokes, getting stoned insane
Till the rain looked just like snow

But there was a soul in whom I could depend
He worked himself crazy while I laid in bed
I never leaned on a person like I leaned right then
And when I finally woke up clean
My friend was dead, stone dead

Somebody saved me
It happened again
Somebody saved me
I thank you my friend
Somebody saved me
I ain't ready for heaven

'Cause if I'd seen you for a second
I'd have wanted to see you forever
Somebody saved me

Somebody saved me


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Lyrics by Pete Townshend

  (Nothing Is Everything) Let's See Action   (She's A) Sensation   (She's A) Sensation   A Friend is a Friend   A Fool Says   A Fool Says...   A Friend Is A Friend   A Little Is Enough   Affirmation   After The Fire   Alan Cohen Speaks   All God's Mornings   All God's Mornings   All Lovers Are Deranged   All Lovers Are Deranged (Pete's Version)   All Shall Be Well   Amazing Journey 1975 Version   And I Moved   And I Moved [Alternate Vocal][*]   Annie   Annie [DVD]   Anyway Anyhow Anywhere   April Fool   Ask Yourself   Baba Blues   Baba M3   Baba O'riley   Baba O'Riley (Demo)   Baba O'Riley [demo version]   Baba O'riley   Barefootin'   Barefootin'   Bargain   Baroque Ippenese   Begin the Beguine   Begin the Beguine [*]   Behind Blue Eyes   Body Language   Brilliant Blues   Brooklyn Kids   Cache, Cache   Call Me Lightning   Can You Help The One You Really Love?   Can You Really Dance?   Can You See The Real Me   Cat Snatch   Cat's In The Cupboard   Catmelody   Christmas   Circles   Circles (Instant Party)   Classified   Come To Mama   Commonwealth Boys   Communication   Contact   Content   Cookin'   Cookin'   Crashing By Design   Dance It Away   Day Of Silence   Day of Silence [*]   Dialogue Introduction to "Now and Then"...   Dialogue Introduction to "Predictable"   Dialogue Introduction to "Now and Then"....   Dialogue Introduction to "Outlive the...   Dialogue Introduction to "Predictable"   Did You Steal My Money   Did You Steal My Money?   Dig   Dirty Water   Don't Let Go Of The Coat   Don't Let Go the Coat   Don't Try To Make Me Real   Don't Let Go Of The Coat   Don't Try To Make Me Real   Dragon   Driftin' Blues   Drifting Blues   Drowned   Early Morning Dreams   Eminence Front   Empty Glass   English Boy   English Boy (Reprise)   Everywhere I Look This Morning   Evolution   Exquisitely Bored   Eyesight To The Blind   Face Dances (Part 2)   Face Dances Part Two   Face Dances, Pt. 2   Face The Face   Face the Face [Live][*]   Face To Face   Fake It   Fast Food   Fire   Flame   Flame [demo version]   Football Fugue   Football Fugue [Live]   Forever's No Time At All   Forever's No Time At All   Getting In Tune   Girl in a Suitcase   Give Blood   Give It Up   Goin' Fishin'   Goin' Mobile   Goin' Fishin'   Goin' Mobile   Gonna Get Ya   Gonna Get You   Gotta Know Ya   Greyhound Girl   Guantanamo   Happy Jack   Heart To Hang Onto   Heart to Hang Onto [DVD]   Hiding Out   His Hands   His Hands [*]   His Hands [Mix][*]   Holly Like Ivy   How Can I Help You   How Can You Do It Alone?   How To Transcend Duality And Influence People   I Am Afraid   I Am An Animal   I Am an Animal [Alternate Vocal][*]   I Am Secure   I Believe My Own Eyes   I Don't Even Know Myself   I Don't Even Know Myself   I Eat Heavy Metal   I Like It The Way It Is   I Put A Spell On You   I Want That Thing   I Won't Run Any More   I Won't Run Any More   I'm One   I'm One   Iron Man Recitative   It's In Ya   It's In Ya   Join Together   Jools And Jim   Just For A Moment   Keep Me Turning   Keep Me Turning [DVD]   Keep On Working   Keep on Working [Alternate Vocal][*]   La La La Lies   La-La Lies   Lantern Cabin   Lantern Cabin [*][Instrumental]   Let My Love Open The Door   Let's Get Pretentious   Let's See Action   Let's See Action (Nothing Is Everything)   Let's Get Pretentious   Let's See Action   Life To Life   Little Is Enough   Lonely Words   Long Live Rock   Love Ain't For Keeping   Love Ain't For Keeping   Love Reign O'er Me   Love Reign O'er Me   Magic Bus   Magic Bus   Magic Bus [*]   Man Machines   Man Watching   Mary   Mary Jane   Maxims For Lunch   Mediation   Meher   Meher Baba M3   Meher Baba M4   Meher Baba M4 - Signal Box   Meher Baba M4 (Signal Box)   Meher Baba M5 (Vivaldi)   Melancholia   Misunderstood   Misunderstood [DVD]   Music Must Change   My Baby Gives It Away   Never Ask Me   New Life (Reprise)   New Life/Reprise   New Song   Night School   Night School [#][*]   No Way Out (However Much I Booze)   North Country Girl   Nothing Is Everything (Let's See Action)   Now And Then   Now And Then (Reprise)   Nowhere To Run   O Parvardigar   On The Road Again   One Note   One Note - Epilogue   One Note (Prologue)   Outlive The Dinosaur   Over The Top   Overture   Parvardigar   Parvardigar (German Version)   Parvardigar [DVD Audio]   Parvardigar [DVD]   Piano: Tipperary   Pictures of Lily   Pinball Wizard   Politician   Popular   Praying the Game   Predictable   Prelude   Prelude #556   Prelude #556 [Live]   Prelude, The Right to Write   Psycho Montage   Psychomontage   Pure And Easy   Pure And Easy (New Version 1999)   Put The Money Down   Real World   Relay   Rough Boys   Rough Mix   Rough Mix [Instrumental]   Save It For Later   Save It for Later [#][*]   Sea & Sand   Sea & Sand   Secondhand Love   Secondhand Love [Live][*]   She's A Sensation   Sheraton Gibson   Sister Disco   Sleeping Dog   Sleeping Dog [*]   Slip Kid   Slit Skirts   So Sad About Us   Song Is Over   Squeeze Box   Squirm Squirm   Stardom In Action   Stardom In Acton   Stop Hurting People   Street In The City   Street in the City [DVD]   Substitute   Teenage Wasteland   Teresa   The A Friend Is A Friend   The All Shall Be Well   The Dig   The Fast Food   The Ferryman   The Fire   The I Eat Heavy Metal   The Kids Are Alright   The Love Man   The Love Man [*]   The Man Machines   The Over The Top   The Sea Refuses No River   The Seeker   The Seeker [*]   The Shout   There's A Heartache Following Me   There's A Heartache Following Me   There’s A Heartache Following Me   Things Have Changed   Three Steps To Heaven   Till The Rivers All Run Dry   Till the Rivers All Run Dry [DVD]   Time Is Passing   Time Is Passing [DVD Audio]   Time Is Passing [DVD]   Tommy   Too Much Of Any Thing   Uneasy Street   Uniforms   Uniforms (Corp D'Espirit)   Uniforms (Corp d'Esprit)   Vicious Interlude   Was There Life   White City   White City Fighting   Who Are You   Who Are You (Gateway Remix)   Without Your Love   Won't Get Fooled Again   Won't Get Fooled Again   You Better You Bet   You Came Back   You're So Clever   You're So Clever   Zelda

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