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Pete Townshend
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In the club
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Man in club: Are you Harold Pinter?
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Woman in club: Noel Coward, I think. "Let's get pretentious, put on an act. Let's get portentous and embroider the facts." (laughs)
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Man mumbling: A fabulous extraordinary hit, especially these people shouting music
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Let's get pretentious
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Put on an act
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Let's be portentous
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Embroider fact
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Exaggerate it
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Dress up the bland
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Let's overrate it
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Let the critics be damned
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Let's get sensuous
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Put on some airs
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Let's drink Kailuas
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And sit bored on the stairs
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Let's get excited
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When we say hello
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Let's be delighted
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Though it's nobody we know
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I don't know much
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But I know what I like
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I don't know much
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But so and so said such and such
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I don't know much
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But I know what I like
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I don't know much
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Let's find a market
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For sparkling wit
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Let's make a target
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Of anyone with a hit
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Let's keep some secrets
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Let's make them up
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Put them together
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Then break them up
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I don't know much
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But I know what I like
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I don't know much
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But so and so said such and such
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I don't know much
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But I know what I like
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I don't know much
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Ray: Oh God, this place is crawling with journalists. I hate the fucking lot of 'em.
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Rastus: Oh Ray, you've got to play the game, eh? I mean, you've got to believe.
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Ray: You know what I think?
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Rastus: What?
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Ray: If you've got beauty or talent you're going get caught up in some kind of prostitution. Well, it's inevitable. That's all it was, my life on the road: prostitution. We're all cunts after all. Get me another drink.
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Rastus: As you know Ray, I find all this fascinating. Pity Ruth Streeting's missin' it.
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Ray: Oh, she'll get it, she'll get it, all right. But my way. Don't you worry. My story'll get told.
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(Guitar Solo)
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I don't know much
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But I know what I like
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I don't know much
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Now so and so said such and such
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I don't know much
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But I know what I like
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I don't know much
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Let's get pretentious
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Put on an act
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Let's be portentous
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Embroider fact
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Exaggerate it
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Dress up the bland
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Let's overrate it
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Let the critics be damned
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In another part of the same club
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Rastus: Ruth, wow. Hey, you look wonderful in black leather.
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Ruth: It's not leather you twerp, it's rubber.
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Rastus: Hey watch it, you call me a "twerp" again and I might have to get me bicycle pump out.
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Ruth: Talking of flat tires, how's Ray?
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Rastus: I can't get anything out of him. He must have some dough stashed away, and he's up to something, but fuck knows what it is. You know, he still reads his fan mail, but he doesn't reply to it anymore. I don't know what'll fire him up.
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Ruth: Bet I could fire him up.
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Rastus: Yeah?
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Ruth: Yeah, I could do it. You say he still reads his fan mail?
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Rastus: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, if you can do something Ruth, we could shift millions, you know that? And I'll cut you in. I would.
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Ruth: I might have an idea. But it'd be dangerous... Especially for Ray.
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