{"id":71,"date":"2016-10-09T03:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2016-10-04T23:26:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T03:26:38","slug":"lyric-of-the-week-baba-oriley-the-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/09\/lyric-of-the-week-baba-oriley-the-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyric of the Week: Baba O’Riley (The Who)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lyric<\/a>This week’s lyric is more commonly referred to by classic rock radio listeners as “Teenage Wasteland.” Its original title was going to be<\/em> “Teenage Wasteland,” but the title was used for another, unrelated song. The title is a mashup of two of Pete Townshend’s influences, Meher Baba and Terry Riley.<\/p>\n

Enjoy Baba O’Riley<\/em><\/a> by The Who<\/a> (from 1971’s Who’s Next<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

Out here in the fields
\nI fight for my meals
\nI get my back into my living
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

I don’t need to fight
\nTo prove I’m right
\nI don’t need to be forgiven<\/p>\n

Don’t cry, don’t raise your eye
\nIt’s only teenage wasteland<\/p>\n

Sally, take my hand
\nWe’ll travel south ‘cross land
\nPut out the fire and don’t look past my shoulder
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

The exodus is here
\nThe happy ones are near
\nLet’s get together before we get much older<\/p>\n

Teenage wasteland
\nIt’s only teenage wasteland
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

They’re all wasted<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

If you have a favorite song that features entertaining lyrics which you’d like to see featured as a Lyric of the Week<\/strong>, drop me a line in the comments (or email me at ed@suitcasefullofdimes.com<\/a>) and tell me what you find special about the song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s lyric is more commonly referred to by classic rock radio listeners as “Teenage Wasteland.” Its original title was going to be “Teenage Wasteland,” but the title was used for another, unrelated song. The title is a mashup of two of Pete Townshend’s influences, Meher Baba and Terry Riley. Enjoy Baba O’Riley by The … Continue reading Lyric of the Week: Baba O’Riley (The Who)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyric-of-the-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F88I-19","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}