Pete Townshend - Somebody Saved Me lyrics

rate me

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, 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 about's 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've 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 Sunnyside 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