How Many Friends
By The Who
Written by Pete Townshend

transcribed by

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I'm feelin' so good right now
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There's a handsome boy tells me how I changed his past
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He buys me a brandy
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Or could it be he's really just after my ass?
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He likes the clothes I wear
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He says he likes a man to dress in season
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But no one else ever stares, he's being so kind
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What's the reason?

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How many friends have I really got?
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You can count 'em on one hand
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How many friends have I really got?
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How many friends have I really got?
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That love me, that want me, that'll take me  as I   am?

Suddenly it's a silver screen
And a face so beautiful that I have to cry out
Everybody hears me
Well, I look like a fool, now, if I try and I shy out
She knows all of my friends
But it's nice to find a woman who'll stay on late
But now I think I've reached the end
I wonder in the dead of night, how do I rate?

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It's all like a dream you know
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When you're still up early in the morning
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And you all sit together to watch the sun come through
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But things don't look so good
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When you could use a bit of warning
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Then you know that no one will ever speak the truth about you.

[repeat chorus]

When I first signed the contract, it was more than a handshake then
I know it still is, but there's a plain fact
We talk so much shit behind each other's backs, I get the willies
People know nothing about their own soft guts
So how come they can sum us up
Without suffering all the hype we've known
How come they bum us up

[repeat chorus]