Pete Townshend - English Boy Lyrics
townshend.pete/english_boyfrom townshend.pete/psychoderelicti'm an english boyi was brought up righthold me downand i will bitei know no feari serve with joyi'm proud to be herean english boyi feel like a stray dogblurred like a movieyou say you've come to arrrest mebut you're just trying to test mei'm bored with your prejudicespreading like a feveryour promises to train meare just attempts to restrain mei'm an english boyprecisely madeyou can pin me downi am not afraidi show no feari will serve with joyi'm proud to be herean english boyuse me like a headlinecut pieces to piecesi'm black on the tube linered on the touch-linefreezing up the futurestopping every stop-watchyou say we're moving like an oil slickthicker than a house bricki'm an english boyi was brought up rightif you raise your dressthen i will bitemy voice is cleari got perfect poisegood to be down herewith all the english boysand i don't know where i am nowor where i'm gonna goi keep going round and round on the circle linelike some demented kind of fool in the mirrortrying to avoid paying for my ticketi'm a lost souli read about myself in the newspapersi'm a pigi'm a thugi've got nowhere to go but downfeel like i'm kicking at a dead mankicking in the chorusi'm broken by hatredwhile politicians just ignore usyou never gave me any valueyou didn't give me any reasonthere's no tools, and no toysfor any english boysi'm an english boyi was brought up righthold me downand i will bitei know no feari serve with joyi'm proud to be herean english boyi'm an english boyno tools, no toys for any english boys....
