Pete Townshend

Lyrics Albums

Outlive The Dinosaur

I breathe

My throat clenches

Clutching to exclude

A dozen different stenches

In Falmouth Bay

A blue whale rolls

Gonna drown in the swill

From city sewer holes

Summers longer

Deltas gashed

Ancient trees

Uprooted, smashed

Time is generous-more, take more

I must outrun the dinosaur

RAY: As to your question about how this will affect your career, the great artist is just like a child, and intuitively understands the need to submit to the audience. Do you begin to see the secret?

A silent temple

Marble-hard

Decays and softens

Battle-scarred

A relic deaf

To bits and streams

And polo-necks

And perfect jeans

Obsessed with silence

Spiked by noise

I hold my son

I plan his toys

Time expansive-more, take more

I must outlive the dinosaur

RAY: Lastly, you must be prepared to test yourself. Why not try the song I have enclosed? It's an outtake from a secret project I'm working on called "Gridlife". The tape you sent shows you can sing, so ... sing.

Rising rivers

Drown new shoots

Words and breath

In death cahoots

The strong survive

To wean more brutes

Who grow and seed

Extend their roots

Cowards, bombs

And scab recruits

Like monkeys trapped

In monkey suits

Time is plentiful-more, take more

I must outfight the dinosaur

Time is plentiful-more, take more (Take some more)

Time is plentiful-more, take more (There's plenty more)

Time is plentiful-more, take more (Just take some more)

Time is plentiful-more, take more

Time is plentiful-more, take more (Ah.....take)

Time is plentiful-more, take more ( Take some more)

Time is plentiful-more, take more,

more take more, more take more

Take more