Sea & Sand
Pete Townshend

Here by the sea and sand
Nothing ever goes as planned,
I just couldn't face going home
It was just a drag on my own.
They finally threw me out
My mom got drunk on stout,
My dad couldn't stand on two feet,
As he lectured about morality,
Well now I guess the families complete,
With me hanging round on the street
Or here on the beach.

The girl I love
Is a perfect dresser
Wears every fashion
Gets it to the tee
Heavens above
Ooo I got to match her
I know where she wants her man to be
Leave it to me.

My jacket's gonna be cut slim and checked
Maybe a touch seersucker with an open neck
I ride a G.S. scooter with my hair cut neat
In my wartime coat in the wind and sleet.

I see her dance
Across the ballroom
UV light making star shine on her smile
I am the face
Mmm she has to know me
I'm dressed up better than anyone within a mile.

Ohh, Ah

So how come the other cats look much better?
Without a penny to spend they dress to the letter
How come the girls all come on oh so cool
Yet when you meet 'em, every one's a fool?

Come sleep on the beach
Keep within my reach
I'm feeling high with you near
I just want to die with you hear
I'm wet and I'm cold
But thank God I ain't old
Why didn't I say what I mean?
Oh I should have split home at fifteen
There's a story that the grass is so green
What did I see?
Where have I been?

Nothing is planned, by the sea and the sand.

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Lyrics by Pete Townshend

  (Nothing Is Everything) Let's See Action   (She's A) Sensation   (She's A) Sensation   A Friend is a Friend   A Fool Says   A Fool Says...   A Friend Is A Friend   A Little Is Enough   Affirmation   After The Fire   Alan Cohen Speaks   All God's Mornings   All God's Mornings   All Lovers Are Deranged   All Lovers Are Deranged (Pete's Version)   All Shall Be Well   Amazing Journey 1975 Version   And I Moved   And I Moved [Alternate Vocal][*]   Annie   Annie [DVD]   Anyway Anyhow Anywhere   April Fool   Ask Yourself   Baba Blues   Baba M3   Baba O'riley   Baba O'Riley (Demo)   Baba O'Riley [demo version]   Baba O'riley   Barefootin'   Barefootin'   Bargain   Baroque Ippenese   Begin the Beguine   Begin the Beguine [*]   Behind Blue Eyes   Body Language   Brilliant Blues   Brooklyn Kids   Cache, Cache   Call Me Lightning   Can You Help The One You Really Love?   Can You Really Dance?   Can You See The Real Me   Cat Snatch   Cat's In The Cupboard   Catmelody   Christmas   Circles   Circles (Instant Party)   Classified   Come To Mama   Commonwealth Boys   Communication   Contact   Content   Cookin'   Cookin'   Crashing By Design   Dance It Away   Day Of Silence   Day of Silence [*]   Dialogue Introduction to "Now and Then"...   Dialogue Introduction to "Predictable"   Dialogue Introduction to "Now and Then"....   Dialogue Introduction to "Outlive the...   Dialogue Introduction to "Predictable"   Did You Steal My Money   Did You Steal My Money?   Dig   Dirty Water   Don't Let Go Of The Coat   Don't Let Go the Coat   Don't Try To Make Me Real   Don't Let Go Of The Coat   Don't Try To Make Me Real   Dragon   Driftin' Blues   Drifting Blues   Drowned   Early Morning Dreams   Eminence Front   Empty Glass   English Boy   English Boy (Reprise)   Everywhere I Look This Morning   Evolution   Exquisitely Bored   Eyesight To The Blind   Face Dances (Part 2)   Face Dances Part Two   Face Dances, Pt. 2   Face The Face   Face the Face [Live][*]   Face To Face   Fake It   Fast Food   Fire   Flame   Flame [demo version]   Football Fugue   Football Fugue [Live]   Forever's No Time At All   Forever's No Time At All   Getting In Tune   Girl in a Suitcase   Give Blood   Give It Up   Goin' Fishin'   Goin' Mobile   Goin' Fishin'   Goin' Mobile   Gonna Get Ya   Gonna Get You   Gotta Know Ya   Greyhound Girl   Guantanamo   Happy Jack   Heart To Hang Onto   Heart to Hang Onto [DVD]   Hiding Out   His Hands   His Hands [*]   His Hands [Mix][*]   Holly Like Ivy   How Can I Help You   How Can You Do It Alone?   How To Transcend Duality And Influence People   I Am Afraid   I Am An Animal   I Am an Animal [Alternate Vocal][*]   I Am Secure   I Believe My Own Eyes   I Don't Even Know Myself   I Don't Even Know Myself   I Eat Heavy Metal   I Like It The Way It Is   I Put A Spell On You   I Want That Thing   I Won't Run Any More   I Won't Run Any More   I'm One   I'm One   Iron Man Recitative   It's In Ya   It's In Ya   Join Together   Jools And Jim   Just For A Moment   Keep Me Turning   Keep Me Turning [DVD]   Keep On Working   Keep on Working [Alternate Vocal][*]   La La La Lies   La-La Lies   Lantern Cabin   Lantern Cabin [*][Instrumental]   Let My Love Open The Door   Let's Get Pretentious   Let's See Action   Let's See Action (Nothing Is Everything)   Let's Get Pretentious   Let's See Action   Life To Life   Little Is Enough   Lonely Words   Long Live Rock   Love Ain't For Keeping   Love Ain't For Keeping   Love Reign O'er Me   Love Reign O'er Me   Magic Bus   Magic Bus   Magic Bus [*]   Man Machines   Man Watching   Mary   Mary Jane   Maxims For Lunch   Mediation   Meher   Meher Baba M3   Meher Baba M4   Meher Baba M4 - Signal Box   Meher Baba M4 (Signal Box)   Meher Baba M5 (Vivaldi)   Melancholia   Misunderstood   Misunderstood [DVD]   Music Must Change   My Baby Gives It Away   Never Ask Me   New Life (Reprise)   New Life/Reprise   New Song   Night School   Night School [#][*]   No Way Out (However Much I Booze)   North Country Girl   Nothing Is Everything (Let's See Action)   Now And Then   Now And Then (Reprise)   Nowhere To Run   O Parvardigar   On The Road Again   One Note   One Note - Epilogue   One Note (Prologue)   Outlive The Dinosaur   Over The Top   Overture   Parvardigar   Parvardigar (German Version)   Parvardigar [DVD Audio]   Parvardigar [DVD]   Piano: Tipperary   Pictures of Lily   Pinball Wizard   Politician   Popular   Praying the Game   Predictable   Prelude   Prelude #556   Prelude #556 [Live]   Prelude, The Right to Write   Psycho Montage   Psychomontage   Pure And Easy   Pure And Easy (New Version 1999)   Put The Money Down   Real World   Relay   Rough Boys   Rough Mix   Rough Mix [Instrumental]   Save It For Later   Save It for Later [#][*]   Sea & Sand   Secondhand Love   Secondhand Love [Live][*]   She's A Sensation   Sheraton Gibson   Sister Disco   Sleeping Dog   Sleeping Dog [*]   Slip Kid   Slit Skirts   So Sad About Us   Somebody Saved Me   Song Is Over   Squeeze Box   Squirm Squirm   Stardom In Action   Stardom In Acton   Stop Hurting People   Street In The City   Street in the City [DVD]   Substitute   Teenage Wasteland   Teresa   The A Friend Is A Friend   The All Shall Be Well   The Dig   The Fast Food   The Ferryman   The Fire   The I Eat Heavy Metal   The Kids Are Alright   The Love Man   The Love Man [*]   The Man Machines   The Over The Top   The Sea Refuses No River   The Seeker   The Seeker [*]   The Shout   There's A Heartache Following Me   There's A Heartache Following Me   There’s A Heartache Following Me   Things Have Changed   Three Steps To Heaven   Till The Rivers All Run Dry   Till the Rivers All Run Dry [DVD]   Time Is Passing   Time Is Passing [DVD Audio]   Time Is Passing [DVD]   Tommy   Too Much Of Any Thing   Uneasy Street   Uniforms   Uniforms (Corp D'Espirit)   Uniforms (Corp d'Esprit)   Vicious Interlude   Was There Life   White City   White City Fighting   Who Are You   Who Are You (Gateway Remix)   Without Your Love   Won't Get Fooled Again   Won't Get Fooled Again   You Better You Bet   You Came Back   You're So Clever   You're So Clever   Zelda

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