The Who Songs - Let's See Action Lyrics

The Who - Let's See Action

The Who - Let's See Action Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rarities, Vol. 1/Vol. 2
Released: 1971

Let's See Action Lyrics

Let's See Action
Let's see people
Let's see freedom
Let's see who cares

Take me with you when you leave me
And my shell behind us there
I have learned it known who burned me
Avatar has warmed his feet

Take me with you
When you leave me
Time and life can meet

Rumor has it minds are open
Then rumors fill them up with lies
Please the people, audiences
I try to scream, 'cause nothing dies

Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's see freedom
In the air

Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's be free
Let's see who cares

Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's see freedom
In the air

Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's be free
Let's see who cares

Give me a drink boy, wash my feet
I'm so tired of running from my own heat
Take this package and here's what you do
You gonna get this information through

I don't know where I'm going
I don't know what I need
But I'll get to where I'm gonna end up
And that's alright by me

I've been running from side to side
Now I know for sure that both sides lied
It's got so hard but we gotta keep trying
I can't stand to see my people crying

I don't know where I'm going
I don't know what I need
I'm gonna get to where I'm gonna end up
And that's alright by me

Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's see freedom
In the air

Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's be free
And see who cares

Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's see freedom
In the air

Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's be free
Let's see who cares

Nothing is everything
Everything is nothing is
Please the people, audiences
Break the fences, nothing is

Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's see freedom
In the air

Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's be free
Let's see who cares

Nothing is everything
Everything is nothing
Nothing is everything
Everything is nothing

Writer/s: TOWNSHEND, PETE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, ABKCO MUSIC INC PETE TOWNSHEND CATALOG, FABULOUS MUSIC LTD, SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP
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Let's See Action

This was originally written by Pete Townshend for his aborted Lifehouse project, which was intended to be a Rock Opera similar to The Who's Tommy and Quadrophenia. Many of the songs Townshend wrote for Lifehouse ended up on the 1971 Who's Next album. "Let's See Action" was recorded for the album, but didn't make the cut. Instead, it was released as a single in the fall of 1971 in the UK peaking at #16. In the US it remained unreleased until its inclusion on the Hooligans compilation album in 1981.

Roger Daltrey recalled to Uncut magazine October 2001: "Pete was going through a terrible bitterness about the fact that Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp hadn't got behind making Lifehouse as a film. But the reason they didn't get behind it was because they couldn't get to grips with the narrative, and I still feel to this day – even though Pete's done his Lifehouse Chronicles box and done it as a radio play – well, I'm sorry but though there's some incredible music in there and some sparks of theoretical and theological ideas, I think the narrative thread of the story is about as exciting as a f---ing whelk race! But I always liked 'Let's See Action.' It's got that texture of explosive rock'n'roll bits mixed in with a laid-back, almost country feel. I still love the sentiment behind it, too."