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I Am Afraid
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Pete Townshend
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Um, I'll see you tomorrow, I might be a bit late
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But I will be there this time, uh, so, call me back tonight
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Anyway, okay?
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I stand beside you, I face the future
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I'll admit to you, I am afraid
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I am afraid as I stand beside you
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I have denied you, I am afraid
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I am not drunk now, I am not pilled down
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My windows wound down, I am not brainwashed
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I am not running, I am not hiding
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My bet's still riding, I am afraid
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I swing you high, I swing you low
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I see your eye, I see you grow
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I hear you cryin', your brother's dying
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Be no more lyin', I am afraid
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Well, who'd have thought it? Thanks to my expose
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All hell broke lose for Ray High as the porno pen pal story
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Burst upon us this week, it started harmlessly enough
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When pretty American fifteen year old
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Rosalind Nathan wrote to her pop hero, Ray High
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I am afraid as I stand beside you
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I have denied you, I am afraid
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I stand beside you, I face the future
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I'll admit to you, I am afraid
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By my religion, I stand here naked
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I cannot fake it with God as witness
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My little children who wait for feedin'
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I watch you bleedin', I am afraid
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I am afraid as I stand beside you
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I have denied you, I am afraid
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I stand beside you, I face the future
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I'll admit to you, I am afraid
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High, one time psychedelic flower child
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Now turned alcoholic vegetable
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Frantically encouraged a sordid series
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Of what can only be described as 'Letters'
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This steamy correspondence climaxed
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In this wide-eyed innocent fourteen year old's
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Now infamous photo, with its suggestion of nakedness
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Underage necrophilia, and incest
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High issued a series of what can only be described as
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'Instructions' by return of post
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Allegedly inducting this vulnerable little waif
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Into his so called secrets of stardom
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She opened her heart to him, she loved to sing
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But he seized upon her gullibility
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To test out his weird theories
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Why did he encourage her? What was he after?
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Was she pushed? I think we should be told
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Now there's been a dramatic new development
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Although Ray High's Albums have been re-released this week
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Decent normal people will be more interested in young Rosalind
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She's a brilliant songwriter
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A brilliant singer and with my help
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Has just released a brilliant new record
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I predict a smash hit for this talented sexy nubile young singer
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So rudely abused by that slime ball, Ray High
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What the fuck are you doing here, Ruth?
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You've come to gloat, have you?
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I'm with Rastus, Rastus? You? Rastus?
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Yeah, I'm staying here as his guest
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He's worried about the scandal, thinks it could be the end of you
Pete Townshend - Face The Face
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