Pure and Easy

by The Who





There once was a note, pure and easy

Playing so free, like a breathe rippling by

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

Forever we blend as 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 changer

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 on a star



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

in us all

(guitar break)



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



The day is the day, the sound covers mountains

blowing, blowing each man into wake

destroying its self in the end with vibrations

there's nothing on earth it's challenge can take



excepting one note

Excepting one note, pure and easy

Playing so free, like a breathe rippling by



excepting one note, excepting one note



There once was a note,...listen

There once was a note,...listen

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