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lovemydog

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4. Who I Am by Pete Townshend.

Reply to MerryBlooms (Original post)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 07:33 PM

Sep 2015

Extremely well-written by shy and literary writer & guitarist of The Who.

I just learned this song is about losing all your material goods for spiritual enlightenment, thus being a 'bargain'. Pete Townshend wrote this as an ode to Meher Baba, who was his spiritual guru. Meher Baba was from India, where he worked with the poor and served as spiritual adviser to Mahatma Gandhi. Townshend believed in his message of enlightenment, which was a big influence on Who songs like "Baba O'Riley" and "See Me, Feel Me."

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