Re: We Close Tonight

[Bjørn Ciggaar <ciggaar@warande.net>]

At 22:07 2-7-01 -0400, you wrote:
>What's that line in "We Close Tonight?"  The one following:
>
>     I came so close to having you for me
>     But I lost you in the fantasy
>     I pretended to myself that you were mine already
>
>     You ??????????????????????????

"You waited for ???? in your eyes" (the ox is sometimes very hard to 
understand when he's singing, and not only when he's singing, sometimes 
when he's talking as well) :-)

>     You were watching me, so worldly-wise
>     Then you changed the subject & talked about going steady
>
>God, what a great song.  Aren't we all sure that OX wrote this song
>in spite of the liner notes in the ODDS & SODS reissue crediting Pete
>as the songwriter?  Can't be a Pete song.

Same I wonder about the totality of "AQO". "Ivor the Engine Driver" is just 
totally OX! :-) And Pete did say it where all different songs put together...

Cheers,

Bjørn Ciggaar
http://www.warande.net/~ciggaar

"You're all fucking stupid!"
- Pete Townshend (MSG, 7th of October)