Lyrics Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend

Crashing By Design

Nothing must pass this line

Unless it is well defined

You just have to be resigned

You're crashing by design

You once believed that crazy accidents

Were happening to you

You were chasing a capricious wind

Whenever bad luck and trouble

Happened to pursue you

The dice would surely saved your skin

But when you look back, you must realize

That nothing in your life's divine

Everything that's ever befallen you

Happened simply 'cause it crossed your mind

You're crashing by design

Nothing can pass this line

Unless it is well defined

You just have to be resigned

You're crashing by design

In your single-roomed flat in a courtyard building

You sit alone just like a broken toy

Where's your mother, where's your lover

Where are the children

Are you a man or still a boy?

Who left you behind or did you run

From the crush of so many options?

Now, you know the special despair of the man

Discussed, debated and offered for adoption

Nothing can pass this line

Unless it is well defined

You just have to be resigned

Another man without a woman

Dropped like he used this tool no longer required

A man who longs for the stifling milk flowered bosom

A fool who's no longer desired

Another man without a woman

Too many rages have cost you this time

Another man among a hundred children

You're just a child who is lost in time

You're crashing by design

You're crashing by design

(It all happens by design)

(It all happens by design)

Crashing by design

(It all happens by design)

(It all happens by design)

You're crashing by design

(It all happens by design)

Crashing by design

(It all happens by design)

Happens by design

It all happens by design

It all happens by design

(Happens by design)

You're crashing by design