Won't Get Fooled Again --- Who

We'll be fighting in the streets  With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone  And the men who spurred
us on  Sit in judgment of all wrong  They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution  Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me  Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday  And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again  Don't get fooled again

Change it had to come  We knew it all along  We were liberated from 
the fall that's all  But the world looks just the same  And history ain't 
changed  'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution  Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me  Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday   And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again  Don't get fooled again   No, no! 

I'll move myself and my family aside  If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky  For I know that the hypnotized 
never lie  Do ya?  There's nothing in the street  Looks any different to me  And the
slogans are replaced, by-the-bye  And the parting on the left  Is now the parting
on the right  And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution  Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me  Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday  Then I'll get on my knees and pray  We don't get fooled again 
Don't get fooled again  Meet the new boss    Same as the old boss              (sing365.com)  




Pete Townshend wrote this song about a revolution. In the first verse, there is an uprising. In the middle, they overthrow those in power, but in the end, the new regime becomes just like the old one ("Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"). Townshend felt revolution was pointless because whoever takes over is destined to become corrupt.  the song was anti-establishment, but that "revolution is not going to change anything in the long run, and people are going to get hurt."                                                                 (From   songfacts.com) 


                      

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