I Can See For Miles - Who, The (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

I Can See For Miles (Who, The, 1967). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2023-06-12. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"I Can See For Miles," written by Pete Townshend, was The Who's only top 10 hit in the US landing at the no. 9 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1967 (Whitburn, 2013). In his book "Who Am I," (2012) Townshend wrote "On one of The Who's many trips away I began imagining that my fabulous new girlfriend Karen was deceiving me. . . It was this kind of paranoid, unhinged thinking that spurred me to write "I Can See for Miles" (p. 93). In one of the band's first performance of the song, they were booked on to "The Smothers Brothers' Comedy Hour." Their drummer, Keith Moon, decided to plant an "oversized theatrical charge of gun power, blowing up the entire band. . . My hair caught fire and my hearing was never the same. Keith was such a twat sometimes" (Townshend, 2012, p. 129).

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Lyrics:

I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise
I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

If you think that I don't know about the little tricks you've played
And never see you when deliberately you put things in my way
Well, here's a poke at you
You're gonna choke on it too
You're gonna lose that smile
Because all the while

I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

You took advantage of my trust in you when I was so far away
I saw you holding lots of other guys and now you've got the nerve to say
That you still want me
Well that's as may be
But you gotta stand trial
Because all the while

I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise
I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

The Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal are mine to see on clear days
You thought that I would need a crystal ball to see right through the haze
Well here's a poke at you
You're gonna choke on it too
You're gonna lose that smile
Because all the while

I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles

I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles