Slit Skirts -- Pete Townshend

I was just thirty four years old and I  was still wandering in a haze  Wondering why everyone I met seemed  like they were lost in a maze  I don't know why I thought I should have some
kind of divine right to the blues  It's sympathy not tears people need when
they're the front page sad news  The incense burned away and the stench began to rise
And lovers now estranged avoided catching each others' eyes And girls who lost their children
cursed the men who fit the coil  And men not fit for marriage took their refuge in the oil
No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned
From all this you'd imagine that there must be something learned....

Slit skirts - Jeannie never weas those slit skirts  And I don't ever wear no ripped shirts
Can't pretend that growing old never hurts  Knee pants - Jeannie never wears no knee pants
We have to be so drunk to try a new dance  So afraid of every new romance
Slit skirts slit skirt  Jeannie isn't wearing those  Slit skirts slit skirt  She wouldn't dare in those
Slit skirts slit skirt  Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt  Romance romance
Why aren't we thinking up  Romance  Why can't we drink it up  True heart romance
Just need a brief new romance

Let me tell you some more about myself you  know I'm sitting at home just now
The big events of the day are passed and the late TV's around
I'm number one in the home team but I still feel unfulfilled  A silent voice in her broken heart
complains that I'm unskilled  And I know that when she thinks of me  she thinks of me as "Him"  But unlike me she don't work off her frustration in the Gym  Recriminations fester and the past can never change   A woman's expectations run from both ends of the range
Once she woke with untamed lovers' face between her legs  Now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg 

Slit skirts slit skirt  Jeannie isn't wearing those  Slit skirts slit skirt  She wouldn't dare in those
Slit skirts slit skirt  Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt  Romance romance
Why aren't we thinking up  Romance  Why can't we drink it up
True heart romance  Just need a brief new romance

This is Townsend's personally-felt lament to the way a decline in a couple's sex life so often leads to the overall decline and disintegration of the relationship. He tells of it primarily from the point of view of the man, whose libido and performance both tend to diminish with age. 

                         

            a couple's sex