Pete Townshend No Way Out (However Much I Booze) lyrics

I watch myself on TV
I'm a faker, a paper clown
It's clear to all my friends that I habitually lie
I just bring them down

I claim proneness to exaggeration
But the truth lies in my frustration

The children of the night all pass me by
Have to dress myself up in brandy, in sleep I hide
But I don't care how much I booze

There ain't no way out
There ain't no way out
Don't care what you say boy
There ain't no way out

I lose so many nights of sleep
Worrying about my responsibility
All the problems that screw me up
Down to him or me?

My ego will just confuse me
One day it's going to up and use me
Dish me out another tailor-made compliment
Tell me about some destiny I can't prevent, however much I squirm

There ain't no way out
There ain't no way out
I don't care what you say boy
There ain't no way out, there ain't no way out

And the night comes down like a cell door closing
Suddenly, I realize that I'm writing now more honestly
While all alone with a bottle and my head up floating
Far away from the phone and the conscience

Going on at me and on at me
And I don't care what you say

There ain't no way out, no way out
There ain't no way out, just try


There ain't no way out
There ain't no way out
There ain't no way out
...

I walk into a club
And know one seems to know me
I have to tell the story of my life
To keep from being thrown out there and then

It all seems so futile
Can I live if some shy stud once disowned me?
Can't face the fact that once you open up for real
You become ambivalent

But once they let you in
There ain't no way out
There ain't no way out
I don't care what you say boy, there ain't no way out

Take it from me

Now the walls are all clawed and scratched
Like by some soul, insane
In the morning, I hung-overly detach myself
I'll take no blame

I just can't face my failure
I'm nothing but a well fucked sailor
You at home can easily decide what's right
By glancing over so briefly at what I write

But it don't help me that you know
There ain't no way out, no way out
There ain't no way out
I don't care what you say, there ain't no way out

There ain't no way out, there ain't no way out
There ain't no way out, there ain't no way out