Pete Townshend - Lifehouse - Part 1 (2003-02-01)

The hosts of the show:
Vladimir Ilinskiy, Olga Palna

(Little Boy)
One note, sounds like a light ray
One note, sounds like a new day
One note, holds all the others,
millions of colors
So one note is best!

(Pete)
The last war finally ended with a huge explosion in Japan.
Some of the liberated prisoners of war from Berma
brought home souvenirs, like Shamisen,
little banjos with lizard skin resonators.
That terrible bond
All those perfect Japanese gardens
Timber houses with paper walls
Consumed in the monumental roar of darkness
All those one stringed musical instruments burning black
Those delicate single notes bended.

But there is peace there of course
In the end all those in pain died quietly in the gentle arms of the shadow
And as ever, the sun rises.

There once was a note pure and easy
Playing so free like a breathe rippling by
The note is eternal
I hear it, it sees me
Forever we blend as forever we die

I listened and I heard music in a word
And words when you played your guitar
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me riding in a star

As people assemble
civilization is trying to find a new way to die
But killing is really merely scene changer
All men are bored with other men's lives

I listened and I heard music in a word
And words when you played your guitar
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me riding in a star

Gas on the hillside
Oil in the tea cup
Watch all the chords of life lose their joy
Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness
The note that began all can also destroy

We all know success when we all find our own dream
And our love is enough to knock down any wall
And the future's been seen as men try to realize
The simple secret of the note in us all
In us all

I listened and I heard music in a word
And words when you played your guitar
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me riding in a star

Today is the day the sound curdles mountains
Flowing and blowing each man in its wake
Destroying itself in the end with vibration
There's nothing on earth it's challenge can take
Excepting one note

Excepting one note pure and easy
Playing so free like breath rippling by

Excepting one note
Excepting one note
Excepting one note, pure and easy
Excepting one note, pure and easy

There once was a note listen
There once was a note listen
There once was a note listen
There once was a note listen

Out here in the fields
I fought for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven

Don't cry
Don't raise your eye
It's only teenage wasteland

Sally, take my hand
Travel south crossland
Put out the fire
And don't look past my shoulder

The exodus is here
The happy ones are near
Let's get together
Before we get much older

Teenage wasteland
It's only teenage wasteland
Teenage wasteland, oh yeah
Teenage wasteland
They're all wasted

I'm playing my guitar while my sister bangs the jar
The glass sets up a sound like people laughing
It's going to my brain and it's easing all my pain
I must hear this sound again 'cause time is passing

Mmm.

I'm walking by the sea and the shingle sings for me
The crabs are swimming down among the starfish
The rocks all clatter down and the seagulls fly around
But the whole trip rubs it in that time is passing, passing

Find it, I got to hear it all again...
My heart has heard the sound of harmony
Blind to it, as my tears fall again
It's only by the music I'll be free

There's something in the whisper of the trees
Millions hear it, still they can't believe
There are echoes of it splashing in the waves
As an empire of dead men leave their graves

Don't listen to people talk, don't listen to 'em selling souls
Don't listen to me or words from men above
Don't hear it in your needs and don't hear it in your greed's
Just hear it in the sound of time a passing

Find it, I got to hear it all again
My heart has heard the sound of harmony
Blind to it, as my tears fall again
It's only by the music I'll be free

Each time we come here
I see we'll never come here again
Each time we make love
I say we'll never make love again
But, my little greyhound girl
You got me running, down the flat
But, my little greyhound girl
I'm in your dreams

Each time we ride out
I say we'll never ride out again
And, when we kiss
I say we'll never, never kiss again
But, my little greyhound girl
You got me running down the flat
My little greyhound girl
I'm in your dreams

I'm looking for reasons
I'm looking for reasons

But there ain't a why or a where
for to live around my little greyhound girl
You've got me running, down the flat
My little greyhound girl
I'm in your track

I'd gladly lose me to find you
I'd gladly give up all I had
To find you, I'd suffer anything
And be glad.
I'd pay any price just to get you
I'd work all my life and I will
To win you, I'd stand naked, stoned, and stabbed.
I'd call that a bargain
The best I ever had
Best I ever had.

I'd gladly lose me to find you
I'd gladly give up all I got
To catch you, I'm gonna run
And never stop.
I'd pay any price just to win you
Surrender my good life for bad.
To find you, I'm gonna drown an unsung man.
I'd call that a bargain
The best I ever had
Best I ever had.

I sit looking 'round
I look at my face in the mirror
I know I'm worth nothing
Without you.
In life, one and one don't make two
One and one make one
And I'm looking for
That free ride to me
I'm looking for you
Looking for you.

I'd gladly lose me to find you
I'd gladly give up all I got
To catch you, I'm gonna run
And never stop.
I'd pay any price just to win you
Surrender my good life for bad.
To find you, I'm gonna drown an unsung man.
I'd call that a bargain
The best I ever had.

The best I ever haaaaad

I'm singing this note
Cos it fits in well with the chords I'm playing
I can't pretend there's any meaning hidden
In the things I'm saying
But I'm in tune
Right in tune
I'm in tune
And I'm gonna tune
Right in on you
Right in on you
Right in on you

I get a little tired of having to say
'Do you come here often'
When I look in your eyes
I see the harmony
And the heartaches soften
I'm getting in tune
Right in tune
I'm in tune
And I'm gonna tune
Right in on you
Right in on you

I've got it all here in my head
There's nothing more needs to be said
I'm just banging on the old piano
Getting in tune to the straight and narrow

I'm singing this song
Cos it fits in well with the way I'm feeling
There's a symphony that I hear in your heart
Sets my head a reeling
I'm in tune
Right in tune
I'm in tune

I've got it all here in my head
There's nothing more needs to be said
I'm just banging on the old piano
I'm getting in tune to the straight and narrow