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

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

I 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

How ever 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 drive me

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 with some shy stud who disowned me

Can’t face the fact that once you open up for real you become ambivalent

They both 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

No way out

I don’t care what you say, there ain’t no way out

There ain’t no way out…