Happy Who Day!

[gridlore]

It's 5:15!!!

Why should I care?
Why should I care?

Girls of fifteen
Sexually knowing
The ushers are sniffing
Eau-de-cologning
The seats are seductive
Celibate sitting
Pretty girls digging
Prettier women.

Magically bored
On a quiet street corner
Free frustration
In our minds and our toes
Quiet stormwater
M-m-my generation
Uppers and downers
Either way blood flows.

Inside outside
Leave me alone.
Inside outside
Nowhere is home.
Inside outside
Where have I been?
Out of my brain on the five fifteen
Out of my brain on a train.

On a raft in the quarry
Slowly sinking.
On the back of a lorry
Holy hitching.
Dreadfully sorry
Apple scrumping.
Born in the war
Birthday punching.

He man drag
In the glittering ballroom
Grayly outrageous
In my high heel shoes
Tightly undone
They know what they're showing
Sadly ecstatic
That their heroes are news.

Inside outside
Leave me alone.
Inside outside
Nowhere is home.
Inside outside
Where have I been?
Out of my brain on the five fifteen
Out of my brain on a train.

Out of my brain on a train, on a train
Woo, I'm out of my brain
On the train, on the train
Out of my brain on a train
Here it comes
Out of my brain on a train

Why should I care?
Why should I care?

Possibly the best track off of Quadrophenia

Comments

[aurictech.livejournal.com]

~imagines all the Whos down in Whoville* singing "5:15"~

*Undoubtedly Mods, one and all, the tall and the small...

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

This would make the Grinch a Rocker, yes?

[aurictech.livejournal.com]

Inadvertent or not, it rather looks as if John Kovalic (http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/archive.asp?nextform=viewcomic&id=1125) was commemorating Who Day as well.

Quadrophenia...

[hartt-tommel.livejournal.com]

...the album guaranteed to srew you up when you're a teenager.

Long live Saint Pete.

-Tom

[silverstorm2013.livejournal.com]

Girl of 16
Whole life ahead of her
Slashed her wrists
Bored with life
Didn't succeed
Thank the lord
For small mercies

Fighting back the tears
Mother reads the note again
16 candles burn in her mind
She takes the blame
It's always the same
She goes down on her knees
And prays

I don't want to start
Any blasphemous rumours
But I think that God's
Got a sick sense of humour
And when I die
I expect to find Him laughing

Girl of 18
Fell in love with everything
Found new life
In Jesus Christ
Hit by a car
Ended up
On a life support machine

Summer's day
As she passed away
Birds were singing
In the summer sky
Then came the rain
And once again
A tear fell
From her mother's eye