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Pure And Easy (New Version 1999)

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Pete Townshend Canonical path: /pete-townshend/pure-and-easy-new-version-1999 Related lyric paths: 6
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Pure And Easy (New Version 1999)

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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

In us all......... yea yea, yea

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There once was a note pure and easy

Playing so free like a breathe rippling by

There once was a note listen (pure and easy)

There once was a note listen (pure and easy)

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