post your favorite protest song

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230. The Who song is a different song from TS. The Who song is from "Tommy"

These three songs run together at the end of Tommy which is why they are performed together.

We're Not Gonna Take It

Tommy: Welcome to the Camp,
I guess you all know why we're here.
My name is Tommy
and I became aware this year

If you want to follow me,
you've got to play pinball.
And put in your earplugs
put on your eyeshades
you know where to put the cork

Hey you getting drunk, so sorry!
I've got you sussed.
Hey you smoking Mother Nature!
This is a bust!
Hey hung up old Mr. Normal,
Don't try to gain my trust!
'Cause you ain't gonna follow me any of those ways

Although you think you must

Guests:
We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it

We're not gonna take it
Never did and never will
We're not gonna take it
Gonna break it, gonna shake it,
let's forget it better still

Tommy: Now you can't hear me,
your ears are truly sealed.
You can't speak either,
your mouth is filled.
You can't see nothing,
and pinball completes the scene.
Here comes Uncle Ernie to guide you to
Your very own machine.

Guests:
We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it

We're not gonna take it
Never did and never will
Don't want no religion
And as far as we can tell
We ain't gonna take you
Never did and never will
We're not gonna take you
We forsake you
Gonna rape you
Let's forget you better still.

See Me, Feel Me

Tommy:
See me.
Feel me.
Touch me.
Heal me.

Listening to You

Listening to you,
I get the music.
Gazing at you,
I get the heat.
Following you,
I climb the mountains.
I get excitement at your feet.

Right behind you,
I see the millions.
On you,
I see the glory.
From you,
I get opinions.
From you,
I get the story.

Listening to you,
I get the music.
Gazing at you,
I get the heat.
Following you,
I climb the mountains.
I get excitement at your feet.

Right behind you,
I see the millions.
On you,
I see the glory.
From you,
I get opinions.
From you,
I get the story.

Listening to you,
I get the music.
Gazing at you,
I get the heat.
Following you,
I climb the mountains.
I get excitement at your feet.

(FADE
Right behind you,
I see the millions.
On you,
I see the glory.
From you,
I get opinions.
From you,
I get the story.

(And thus this finishes the rock opera Tommy. In the movie, Tommy (Roger Daltrey) climbs a mountain and stands before the rising sun just as his father did before him.)


This is a church scene from the movie Tommy with Eric Clapton as the Preacher, John Entwistle and Pete Townshend behind him, and Roger on the left, next to his mother played by Ann-Margret, as Tommy waiting to touch the statue of Marilyn Monroe as it comes down the aisle for a miraculous healing. The people taking communion at the rail get a slug of Johnnie Walker Red instead of wine and a handful of pills for a communion wafer. I think it's about the ridiculousness of celebrity worship as if celebrities can heal people. The Beatles said they hated the fact that people in wheelchairs would be brought to their shows to be touched as if four guys from Liverpool had godlike powers. I think it's a fantastic commentary on our society and the tendency of people to look outside themselves for something to latch onto and have faith in.