Don't Look Away

Song ratings

Rating	Comments	Author	Date
	Things get back to normal, for a while anyway, with this Pete Townshend track. This song is much more complex than previous Townshend creations ("The Good's Gone", "It's Not True", "Run Run Run") as he fits together a coherent melody from four distinct parts, more indicative of the more loosely-structured songs that is to be a Townshend trademark (songs like "Sunrise" or "Baba O'Riley" or "Bell Boy"). Townshend forms quite an imaginative rhyme with the words 'girlfriend' and 'whirlwind'--can you think of any other song using this pair? A fine song.	Bruce Beatlefan	February 7, 2008

Lyrics

Don't go and hide
Yesterday you were my girlfiend
If you do
My inside goes around and around in a whirlwind

There's a stone in my shoe
So I can't catch you up
My head's in a lion's mouth
Wants to eat me up
Right here today
Don't look away
I've always been true
And I still love you
So don't look away
There's a lot you can do
To get me away
You've got to stay
Don't look away
Don't look away

I once heard you say
If I ever was down you would help me
Now my head's being chewed up
You pretend that you don't see

There's a stone in my shoe
So I can't catch you up
My head's in a lion's mouth
Wants to eat me up
Right here today
Don't look away
I've always been true
And I still love you
So don't look away
There's a lot you can do
To get me away
You've got to stay
Don't look away
Don't look away

I've always been true
And I still love you
So don't look away
There's a lot you can do
To get me away
You've got to stay
Don't look away
Don't look away
Don't look away
Don't look away
Don't look away

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