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WHO ARE YOU?
Composed by the guitarist Peter Dennis Townshend, the song is the title cut on The Who's "Who Are You," the last album released before the death of ill-fated drummer Keith John Moon from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. The hard-rocking song became one of the British band's biggest and greatest American hits, jumping to number fourteen in the U.S. Billboard charts.
Who are you?
Who, who, who, who?
I woke up in a Soho doorway
A policeman knew my name
He said you can go sleep at home tonight
If you can get up and walk away
I staggered back to the underground
And the breeze blew back my hair
I remember throwin' punches around
And preachin' from my chair
Well, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
I really wanna know (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Tell me, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Cause I really wanna know (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
I took the tube back out of town
Back to the rollin' pin
I felt a little like a dying clown
With a streak of Rin Tin Tin
I stretched back and I hiccupped
And looked back on my busy day
Eleven hours in the tin pan
God, there's got to be another way
Who are you?
Ooh wa ooh wa ooh wa ooh wa ...
Who are you?
Who, who, who, who?
I know there's a place you walked
Where love falls from the trees
My heart is like a broken cup
I only feel right on my knees
I spit out like a sewer hole
Yet still receive your kiss
How can I measure up to anyone now
After such a love as this?
Just a short postscript: The album version includes an extra verse compared to the much shorter single. Additionally, a "lost verse" mix of the song was released on the very recent reissue of "Who Are You," with a completely different second verse:
I used to check my reflection
Jumping with my cheap guitar
I must have lost my direction,
Cause I ended up a superstar
One night I was in the boardroom
Affected by the human race
You can learn from my mistakes,
But you're posing in the glass again.
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WHO ARE YOU? is the theme music for the hit CBS show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," an Emmy Award-winning television series that follows a team of Las Vegas forensic scientists as they unearth the venomous, posthumous details behind unusual, kinky deaths and cryptic, murky denouements.
(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Dr. Gilbert Arthur "Gil" Grissom, Ph.D. (William Petersen): Our crack night shift team supervisor with a degree in biology from UCLA. [Note: Thinker. Workaholic. With credibility.]
(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger): The keen blood (hemorrhage?) spatter analyst. Knockout is a second-in-command appointee. [Note: Unobtrusively beauteous face. Toothsome ex-stripper.]
(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan): The funky audio-video analyst cum authenticator. [Note: A former "unlucky" gambler.]
(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Nicholas "Nick" Stokes (George Eads): The key hair and fiber analyst. [Note: Former baseball player with a degree in criminal law.]
(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox): The outspoken, unhappy materials and element analyst. [Note: Weepy, heavy outlook. Was with the San Francisco coroner.]
(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Gregory "Greg" Sanders (Eric Szmanda): Formerly the lab's peppy DNA technician; became a full-fledged CSI. [Note: Audiophile. Funny, hotfooted phenomenon.]
(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Dr. Albert "Al" Robbins (Robert David Hall): The eerie head county coroner. [Note: A stuffy, mature baldhead (needs toupee?). Monotonous. "Weak-kneed" (interpreted as "amputations").]
(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
David Hodges (Wallace Langham): The pesky, talkative, noisome lab technician. [Note: A wee kooky. Reeks of unctuous ingenuity.]
(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Det. Capt. James "Jim" Brass (Paul Guilfoyle): The by-the-book, bureaucratic (yet tweedy) chief of the unit then. [Note: Went back meritoriously to the police homicide department here.]
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