Lyrics Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend

Music Must Change

Deep in the back of my mind is an unrealized sound

Every noise that I hear on the street say it soon could be found

When I hear the cold lies of the pusher I know it exists

It's confirmed in the eyes of the kids emphasized with their fists

But the high has to rise from the low

Like volcanoes explode through the snow

The mosquito's sting brings a dream but the poisons derange

So the music must change

For we're chewing a bone

You know we soared like the sparrow hawk flies

Then we drop like a stone

Like the tide and the waves growing slowly in range

Crushing mountains as old as the Earth

So the music must change

Sometimes at night I wake up and my body's like ice

The sound of the running wild stallion the noise of the mice

And I wondered if then I could hear into all of your dreams

I realize now it was really the sound of your screams

Death always leads into life

But the street fighter swallows the knife

Am I so crazy to feel that it's here pre-arranged

The music must change

It's gets higher and higher

Smoldering like leaves in the sun it bursts into fire

Its rhythm grows strong, so strong

So new and so strange

Like bells in the clouds then again the music must change

Change

But is this song so different?

Am I doing it all again?

It may have been done before

But then music's an open door

Deep in the back of my mind is an unrealized sound

Every feeling I get from the street says it soon could be found

When I hear the cold lies of the pusher I know it exists

It's confirmed in the eyes of the kids emphasized with their fists

But the high has to rise from the low

Like volcanoes explode through the snow

The mosquito's sting brings a dream but the poison's derange

Though the music must change

For we're chewing a bone

We soared like the sparrow hawk flies

And we drop like a stone

Like the tide and the waves growing slowly in range

Crushing mountains as old as the Earth

So the music must change

The music must change, yeh