Re: We Close Tonight

"In Quadrophenia I wrote a song that didn't get included about this romance,
this girl at school, and how I blew the relationship because I lied a lot.
She was going out with a jazz musician and I was just like on the sidelines
and I used to talk to her. I never thought there'd ever be a relationship
but I used to like being in her presence and we used to sit next to one
another, work and talk and eat together and that sort of thing. That was a
far aas it got. At the end of the day the jazz musician would come and pick
her up and take her home.

So I started to expand a bit on my musician capabilities in order to just
perhaps bring myself into line a little bit with this other guy. Like,
'Well, I'm in a band and I play really well. I've got a number of guitars.
I've worked with all kinds of people, all sorts of bands. I've got four or
five different color jackets.' And we used to talk about jazz and stuff and
I had a working knowledge about jazz becaue my father was a legitimate
player; so I knew a little bit, but I didn't really know quite what I was
talking about.

The final boob was when her old man left her and she was very shattered by
it, because he was older and she was very young, and she turned to me for
emotional support, and apart from not being able to recognize it or being
able to handle it...I got into a conversation about Charlie Parker, and said
that I'd met him in a club and that he'd shaken my hand. It was a tragic
thing. I remember it to this day. Because it was then she knew it was just
not going to work.

So I wrote a pretty song which we actually got to the point of laying down,
called 'We Close Tonight.' The last verse of it is, 'I got three red jackets
and a Fender Jazz and I play guitar in a mainstream band,' and the last
line of the thing is, 'You could come and see us, but we close tonight.'
But the humorous songs that I was writing seemed out of place somehow in
Quadrophenia. They seemed too much like little funny cameos stuck in to
lighten what was essentially a sad story. So I thought, well, fuck it, if