The song Guitar & Pen is performed by The Who in the album named Thirty Years of Maximum R&B in the year 1994 .
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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
- I'm The Face - The Who (As The High Numbers)
- Here 'Tis - The Who (As The High Numbers)
- Zoot Suit - The Who (As The High Numbers)
- Leaving Here - The Who (As The High Numbers)
- I Can't Explain
- Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
- Daddy Rolling Stone
- Substitute (Live)
- I'm A Boy
- Happy Jack Jingle
- Happy Jack
- Boris The Spider
- So Sad About Us
- A Quick One, While He's Away
- Early Morning Cold Taxi
- Coke 2
- (This Could Be) The Last Time
- Girl's Eyes
- Bag O'Nails
- Rotosound Strings
- I Can See For Miles
- Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand
- Armenia City In The Sky
- Tattoo
- Our Love Was
- Rael 1
- Rael 2
- Track Records/Premier Drums
- Sunrise
- Russell Harty Dialogue
- Jaguar
- Melancholia
- Fortune Teller
- Little Billy
- Dogs
- Overture
- Acid Queen
- Abbie Hoffman Incident (Live)
- Underture (Live)
- Pinball Wizard
- I'm Free
- See Me Feel Me (Live)
- Heaven & Hell
- Young Man Blues
- Summertime Blues
- Shakin' All Over
- Baba O'Riley
- Bargain (Live)
- Pure & Easy
- Song Is Over
- Studio Dialogue
- Behind Blue Eyes
- Won't Get Fooled Again
- The Seeker (Edited Version)
- Bony Moronie (Live)
- Let's See Action
- Join Together
- Relay
- The Real Me
- 5.15 (Single Version)
- Bell Boy
- Love Reign O'er Me
- Long Live Rock
- Life With The Moons
- Naked Eye (Live)
- University Challenge
- Slip Kid
- Poetry Cornered
- Dreaming From The Waist (Live)
- Blue Red & Grey
- Life With The Moons 2
- Squeeze Box
- My Wife (Live)
- Who Are You (Single Version)
- Music Must Change
- Sister Disco
- Guitar & Pen
- You Better You Bet
- Twist And Shout (Live)
- I'm A Man (Live)
- Pete Dialogue (Live)
- Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)