Somebody Saved Me - Pete Townshend

I stood at the door beside her

But she would not let me pass

I was such a boor and I lied to her

I said I did not 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 would 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 would had her for just an hour

I would have wanted her forever

Somebody saved me

You would have thought that I would have learned

Twenty years ago or more

A beautiful girl raised her mouth and yearned

But I did not know what lips were for

I ran away in the mud and rain

The weather here is never too bright

She would 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 Eagling scene

And it nearly killed him like it would have killed me

When her original man snapped his fingers and she obeyed

She obeyed

I do not know about guardian angels

All I know about’s staying alive

I cannot shout about spiritual labels

When little ones die and big ones thrive

All I know is that I have been making it

There have been times I did not deserve to

Every show there’s been more faking it

But right at the point of no return

Somebody saves me, and it happened again

Somebody saves me, and I thank you my friend

Somebody saves me, from a fate worse than heaven

Cause if I blew it for a single moment

I would 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

I left my folks in the mud and rain

It always rained in Sunnyside Road

I lived hippie jokes getting stoned insane

'Til 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

But somebody saved me, it happened again

Somebody saved me, I thank you my friend

Somebody saved me, I am not ready for heaven

Cause if I would seen you for a second, I would have wanted to see you forever

Somebody saved me