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"Pure And Easy" was supposed to have been the opening song in Pete Townshend's second concept album (after "Tommy") called "Lifehouse." But the project never gelled. Instead he gave us the album "Who's Next" and if you listen closely to the very end of the very last song -- "The Song Is Over" -- Townshend included the dying gasp of "Pure And Easy:"

Lyrics for "Pure And Easy" follow after the jump.

Pure And Easy

There once was a note, pure and easy

Playing so free, like a breath rippling by

The note is eternal, I hear it, it sees me

Forever we bend it, forever we die

I listened and I heard music in a word

And words when you played your guitar

The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering

And a child flew past me riding in a star

As people assemble

Civilization is trying to find a new way to die

But killing is really merely scene changing

All men are bored with other men's lives

I listened and I heard music in a word

And words when you played your guitar

The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering

And a child flew past me riding in a star

Gas on a hillside

Oil in a teacup

Watch all the chords of life lose their joy

Distortion becomes somehow

Pure in its wildness

The note that began all

Can also destroy

We all know success

When we all find our own dreams

And our love is enough

To knock down any walls

And the future's been seen

As men try to realize

The simple secret of the note in us all

I listened and I heard

Music in a word

And words when you played your guitar

The noise I was hearing was a million people cheering

And a child flew past me riding in a star

There once was a note

Listen

There once was a note

Listen

There once was a note

Listen...etc.

[put away your girlie magazines!]