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How Can You Do It Alone?
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Pete Townshend
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Saw a man about fifty or so
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He looked lonely but his eyes were bright
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I was walking up Holland Park Road
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And I stopped him to ask for a light
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He practically froze when I spoke
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But eased when he saw my cigarette
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Then I saw as he lit up my smoke
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Beneath his coat he was naked and wet
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Who can you blame he knew that I knew
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In the sound of his breath was a moan
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I said "I know there's no name
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For what you go through
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But how can you do it alone".
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I crossed the street to the local news store
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Flicked through some cheap magazines
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Beside me some school kid I saw
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Push some girlie mag down into his jeans
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The shop girl was watching amazed
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Asked me to call for the police
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She screamed at his blushing young face
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But he escaped into the streets
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With eyes full of shame
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For he knew that I knew
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He slumped to the wall with a moan
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I said "I know there's no name
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For what you go through
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But how can you do it alone".
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Do it alone, how can you do it alone.
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I need your help, so I can do it by myself.
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Do it alone, don't have to breathe down the phone
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I ain't got a clue, 'bout the things that you do
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But how...can you do it alone.
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How can you do it... [etc]
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Back at the flat my girl sat in the shower
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And wasn't too keen on me sharing
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She came out well after an hour
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And by that time I was past caring
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Some women it seems have the knack
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Of attaining that stars in their dreams
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They simply relax and lay back
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While people like us scratch our jeans.
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With eyes full of shame
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And I know it must show
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I slump and I fall and I groan
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Will somebody explain
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What I need to know
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How, can you do it alone.
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How can you do it alone... [etc]
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