Guitar & Pen Lyrics

The song Guitar & Pen is performed by The Who in the album named Thirty Years of Maximum R&B in the year 1994 .



Townshend)

You're alone above the street somewhere
Wondering how you'll ever count out there

You can walk, you can talk, you can fight
But inside you've got something to write
In your hand you hold your only friend
Never spend your guitar or your pen
Your guitar or your pen
Your guitar or your pen
Your guitar or your pen
Your guitar or your pen

When you take up a pencil and sharpen it up
When you're kicking the fence and still nothing will budge
When the words are immobile until you sit down
Never feel they're worth keeping, they're not easily found
Then you know in some strange, unexplainable way
You must really have something
Jumping, thumping, fighting, hiding away
Important to say

When you sing through the verse and you end in a scream
And you swear and you curse 'cause the rhyming ain't clean
But it suddenly comes after years of delay
You pick up your guitar, you can suddenly play
When your fingers are bleeding and the knuckles are white
Then you can be sure, you can open the door
Get off of the floor tonight
You have something to write

When you want to complain, there's no one can stop you
But when your music proclaims, there's no one can top you
You are wearing you heart on your jumping feet
You've got a head start away from the street

But is that what you want, to be rich and be gone?
Could be there's just one thing left in the end
Your guitar and your pen

When you sing to your mum, and you hum and you croon
And she says that she'd like it "with more of a tune"
And you smash your guitar at the end of the bed
Then you stick it together and start writing again
And you know that it won't be too long 'til your back
To bring her some money, she's calling you "honey"
Stashed in a bloody great sack
In your Cadillac

You're alone
You're alone

You're alone above the street somewhere
Wondering how you'll ever count out there

You can walk, you can talk, you can fight
But inside you've got something to write
In your hand you hold your only friend
Never spend your guitar or your pen
Your guitar or your pen
Your guitar or your pen
Your guitar or your pen
Your guitar or your pen
Your guitar or your pen
Your guitar or your pen
Your guitar or your pen

Never spend your guitar or your pen



The Who - Thirty Years of Maximum R&B

Jul 1994

  1. I'm The Face - The Who (As The High Numbers)
  2. Here 'Tis - The Who (As The High Numbers)
  3. Zoot Suit - The Who (As The High Numbers)
  4. Leaving Here - The Who (As The High Numbers)
  5. I Can't Explain
  6. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
  7. Daddy Rolling Stone
  8. Substitute (Live)
  9. I'm A Boy
  10. Happy Jack Jingle
  11. Happy Jack
  12. Boris The Spider
  13. So Sad About Us
  14. A Quick One, While He's Away
  15. Early Morning Cold Taxi
  16. Coke 2
  17. (This Could Be) The Last Time
  18. Girl's Eyes
  19. Bag O'Nails
  20. Rotosound Strings
  21. I Can See For Miles
  22. Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand
  23. Armenia City In The Sky
  24. Tattoo
  25. Our Love Was
  26. Rael 1
  27. Rael 2
  28. Track Records/Premier Drums
  29. Sunrise
  30. Russell Harty Dialogue
  31. Jaguar
  32. Melancholia
  33. Fortune Teller
  34. Little Billy
  35. Dogs
  36. Overture
  37. Acid Queen
  38. Abbie Hoffman Incident (Live)
  39. Underture (Live)
  40. Pinball Wizard
  41. I'm Free
  42. See Me Feel Me (Live)
  43. Heaven & Hell
  44. Young Man Blues
  45. Summertime Blues
  46. Shakin' All Over
  47. Baba O'Riley
  48. Bargain (Live)
  49. Pure & Easy
  50. Song Is Over
  51. Studio Dialogue
  52. Behind Blue Eyes
  53. Won't Get Fooled Again
  54. The Seeker (Edited Version)
  55. Bony Moronie (Live)
  56. Let's See Action
  57. Join Together
  58. Relay
  59. The Real Me
  60. 5.15 (Single Version)
  61. Bell Boy
  62. Love Reign O'er Me
  63. Long Live Rock
  64. Life With The Moons
  65. Naked Eye (Live)
  66. University Challenge
  67. Slip Kid
  68. Poetry Cornered
  69. Dreaming From The Waist (Live)
  70. Blue Red & Grey
  71. Life With The Moons 2
  72. Squeeze Box
  73. My Wife (Live)
  74. Who Are You (Single Version)
  75. Music Must Change
  76. Sister Disco
  77. Guitar & Pen
  78. You Better You Bet
  79. Twist And Shout (Live)
  80. I'm A Man (Live)
  81. Pete Dialogue (Live)
  82. Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)

Guitar & Pen