Welcome

Song ratings

Rating	Comments	Author	Date
		Dmitry Murashev	April 19, 2008
	One of Pete Townshend's finest songs from Tommy, "Welcome" features an exquisite waltzing piano melody with an emotion that tantalizingly shifts from hopeful to resigned just as the song itself shifts from major key to minor key. An enigmatic song in which Tommy invites one and all to sup with him and "be one of the comfortable people"...but throughout the singing he (Daltrey/Tommy) seems tentative and unsure of himself.	Bruce Beatlefan	March 31, 2008

Lyrics

Tommy:

Come to my house
Be one of the comfortable people.
Come to this house
We're drinking all night
Never sleeping.

Milkman come in!
And you baker,
Little old lady welcome
And you shoe maker

Come to this house!
Into this house.

Come to this house
Be one of us.
Make this your house
Be one of us.

You can help
To collect some more in
Young and old people
Lets get them all in!

Come to this house!
Into this house.

Ask along that man who's wearing a carnation.
Bring every single person
from Victoria Station,
Go into that hospital
and bring nurses and patients,
Everybody go home and fetch their relations!

Come to this house
Be one of the comfortable people.
Lovely bright home
Drinking all night never sleeping.

We need more room
Build an extension
A colourful palace
Spare no expense now

Come to this house
Be one of us
Come into this house
Be one of us

Come to this house
Into this house

Welcome

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