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Let's Get Pretentious

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Pete Townshend Canonical path: /pete-townshend/let-s-get-pretentious Related lyric paths: 6

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Let's Get Pretentious

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Let's get pretentious

Put on an act

Let's get pretentous

Embroider fact

Exaggerate it

Dress up the bland

Let's overrate it

Let the critics be damned

Let's get sensuous

Put on some airs

Let's drink Kailua

And sit bored on the stairs

Let's get excited

When we say hello

Let's be delighted

Though it's nobody we know

I don't know much

But I know what I like

I don't know much

But so and so said such and such

I don't know much

But I know what I like

I don't know much

Let's find a market

For sparkling wit

Let's make a target

Of anyone with a hit

Let's keep some secrets

Let's make them up

Put them together

Then break them up

I don't know much

But I know what I like

I don't know much

But so and so said such and such

I don't know much

But I know what I like

I don't know much

[Guitar solo]

I don't know much

But I know what I like

I don't know much

But so and so said such and such

I don't know much

But I know what I like

I don't know much

Let's find a market

For sparkling wit

Let's make a target

Of anyone with a hit

Let's keep some secrets

Let's make them up

Put them together

Then break them up

Let's get sensuous

Put on some some airs

Let's drink Kailua's

And sit bored on the stairs

Let's get excited

When we say hello

Let's be delighted

Though it's nobody we know

I don't know much

But I know what I like

I don't know much

I don't know much

But I know what I like

I don't know much

Let's get pretentious

Put on an act

Let's get pretentious

Embroider fact

Exaggerate it

Dress up the bland

Let's overrate it

Let the critics be damned

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