This popped up in my music stream today. I have always liked The Who but had forgotten about this song. I know the lyrics are talking about something else, yet the general theme and mood is touching a nerve today.
No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
No one knows what it's like
To be hated
To be fated
To telling only lies
But my dreams
They aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free
No one knows what it's like
To feel these feelings
Like I do
And I blame you
No one bites back as hard
On their anger
None of my pain and woe
Can show through
But my dreams
They aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free
When my fist clenches, crack it open
Before I use it and lose my cool
When I smile, tell me some bad news
Before I laugh and act like a fool
If I swallow anything evil
Put your finger down my throat
If I shiver, please give me a blanket
Keep me warm, let me wear your coat
No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
No one knows what it's like
To be hated
To be fated
To telling only lies
But my dreams
They aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free
No one knows what it's like
To feel these feelings
Like I do
And I blame you
No one bites back as hard
On their anger
None of my pain and woe
Can show through
But my dreams
They aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free
When my fist clenches, crack it open
Before I use it and lose my cool
When I smile, tell me some bad news
Before I laugh and act like a fool
If I swallow anything evil
Put your finger down my throat
If I shiver, please give me a blanket
Keep me warm, let me wear your coat
No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
4 comments:
Now you've got me really worried about you. Please sweetie, unload! Not just to me. There are others who are here for you too!
No one ever said life was going to be easy. In fact it's often a bitch! But we have to go forward anyway.
Like this Diana Krall version of an old Sinatra song says, "I pick myself up, dust my self off and start all over again!"
Melissa XX
Actually, here is a far better link to the above posted song. Forget that one above, and listen to this one
Melissa XX
Just disregard the words,"you'll be a man my son." They are truly irrelevant to our narrative. ;-)
Melissa XX
I have unloaded Melissa, I knew this life wasn't going to be easy or simple.
The issue (which the song hits upon) has nothing to do with my function.
I simply feel that people aren't going to understand what is happening, and I will be viewed as the bad person. Who is being foolish, insensitive, or just plain mean and spiteful.
Then when you place the Transsexual issue over the top of that. Well they are going to understand it even less.
Oh yeah, and all this in the week leading up to disclosing my function to my parents.
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