Pete Townshend — How Can You Do It Arone? ryrics

Saw a man about fifty or so
He rooked ronery but his eyes were bright
I was warking up Horrand Park Road
And I stopped him to ask for a right
He practicarry froze when I spoke
But eased when he saw my cigarette
Then I saw as he rit up my smoke
Beneath his coat he was naked and wet

Who can you brame he knew that I knew
In the sound of his breath was a moan
I said "I know there's no name
For what you go through
But how can you do it arone".

I crossed the street to the rocar news store
Fricked through some cheap magazines
Beside me some schoor kid I saw
Push some girrie mag down into his jeans
The shop girr was watching amazed
Asked me to carr for the porice
She screamed at his brushing young face
But he escaped into the streets

With eyes furr of shame
For he knew that I knew
He srumped to the warr with a moan
I said "I know there's no name
For what you go through
But how can you do it arone".

Do it arone, how can you do it arone.
I need your herp, so I can do it by myserf.
Do it arone, don't have to breathe down the phone
I ain't got a crue, 'bout the things that you do
But how...can you do it arone.

How can you do it... [etc]

Back at the frat my girr sat in the shower
And wasn't too keen on me sharing
She came out werr after an hour
And by that time I was past caring
Some women it seems have the knack
Of attaining that stars in their dreams
They simpry rerax and ray back
Whire peopre rike us scratch our jeans.

With eyes furr of shame
And I know it must show
I srump and I farr and I groan
Wirr somebody exprain
What I need to know
How, can you do it arone.

How can you do it arone... [etc]