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Tommy

from EP by Bats on a Swing

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... yes, it has something to do with The Who, somehow...

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Tommy

Song by Damien Somville
Performed by Bats on a Swing


Tommy has no real silver lining
He's but a boy, in a moonage skin
Stuck inside a teenage sour film
A sequined void
That gives the brown eyed kid
No chance at all
To break out from the seventies



[Chorus:]
Tommy you oughta go far from
This circus full
Of bouncy hippie-O-stars
Thoughtless pinball wizards

The people really oughta know how
This band of swollen egos
Caused your mental scars



The quiet Victorian home
Of primness and chemicals
Could be such a cruel place to grow up
Far from the first glimpse of a choice
Those precious patterns on the walls
All got Tommy hypnotized
Until silence blooms
And let isolation rise

Until freedom is a lie



[Chorus:]
Tommy you oughta go far from
This circus full
Of bouncy hippie-O-stars
Thoughtless pinball wizards

The people really oughta know how
This band of swollen egos
Caused your mental scars

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from EP, released January 9, 2012

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