Who, The - Naked Eye Lyrics

Essential Who in my world.

Why don’t they make songs like this anymore? Spectacular song.

Anyone now which versions have the missing lyric or why it's missing?  I keyed in all the lyrics below but the computer pushed them all together turning Pete's poetry into one long run on vocal. . Hm there must be a trick to it.

Take a little dope and walk out in the airthe stars are al connected to the brainFind me a woman andlay down on the grassher pleasure comes falling down like rainget myself a carfeel power as I drive now I'm really in controlIt all looks fine to the naked eyebut it don't really happen that way at allit don't happen that way at allYou sign your nameand I sign mineThere both the same but we still get separate roomsWell you can cover up your guts but when you cover up your nutsyour admitting that there must be something wrongPress any button and milk and honey flow the world begins behind your neighbor's wallIt all looks fine to the naked eyebut it don't really happen that way at allit don't happen that way at allYou hold the gun and I hold the wound and we stand looking in each others eyeswe  think we know what's rightWe know we know what's wrong                               Verse not in this version  ?and there is just one who rules us allIt all looks fine to the naked eyebut it don't really happen that way at allit don't happen that way at all

Multiple Whogasms

Art. Pure. The guitar is like warm glowing oil, the drumming is the pulse.

This song is WAY ahead of it's time that's probably why it's so underrated.

Probably because it's a song that could've been written 5-10 years, or maybe 20 years later by some punk, or grunge band like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, or Soundgarden. It's themes of societal alienation, depression, existential angst, feelings of false sense of fame, meaningful life sounds a lot like something the 90s grunge bands would sing about. I also think that's why a lot of the later punk bands and eventually grunge bands would list classic rock bands like the Who, Pink Floyd, and Black Saabath as some of their favorite bands growing up.

How the hell was 'Naked Eye' left of who's next in 71. If they ever did a stronger track, it was My Generation. Its almost as though the band was so pissed and smacked out in the case of Manager Lambert, they just threw eight decent tracks out of about 20 recordd into the mix and released, My own view was as a Double albulm it was too strong and it would have destroyed them though too much adoration. And Townshend and the management sensed that they better noy. I mean some of the live recordings , Moon seems to have become the greatest classical drummer on end or he's possibly druming for Wellingtons army in 1815 or Guderain, Sailor in 44.

Fuck off

HARD TO BELIEVE THE BAND NEVER REKEASED THIS ORIGINALLY BACK IN 71'. BLISTERING, POWER PACKED, KNOCK OUT.

That's a killer track 👍

It's unfortunate that video of this conference was not captured, I remember reading somewhere that there was a last minute technical issue with the recording and only audio was recorded.

Somebody explain why over one- half of the third verse of "Naked Eye" is missing on this cut and on "Maximum R & B" cut? "Odds & Sods" is the only cut that I have heard it played but no other recording, that I have heard, has it.

I read somewhere that the song wasn't finished when this recording was made.

It all looks fine.................to the naked eye...

A fantastic song can't understand why this didn't become an instant hit and why wasn't this on the original Whos Next album.

The lyrics! oh my lord

In my opinion one the best who songs that chord progression is one of the best of I have ever heard!

Its back on youtube!!

9 dummies need to stay at home and play their dustin bieber collection...just saying

epic image

nice to see they're playing this gem on tour again

That freaking solo tho

This is the Who,mach 7 to infinity.Unmatched.

From which album is this?

Filip Bačík It wasn’t on an album but got released on Odds and Sods and later on a Who’s Next deluxe edition.

My $.02. It's a very powerful track that, yes, would have been a standout on Who's Next and was deservedly a live staple for many years. Had Townshend at 2:40 or so been able to come up with a better solo, it would have been potentially among the greatest live rock songs ever. Instead, he and the band drift a bit before rallying for a strong (if familiar) ending.

Do you hear the locomotive??? This is the boys in their prime. The definitive Who song.

This song says is incredible .Hugely underrated masterpiece from the Who.They could rock,play,write,compose and sing like nobody's business.God Bless 'em.

0:00: Pssst...hey, Pete, we're playing Naked Eye, not Acid Queen!

Omg! So accurate!

in the States.

I hear a little Hendrix in Pete's guitar playing there, after all all these English dudes would all go watch Jimi play, n wasn't even heard of or Popular then.

Odds And Sods CD....Sounds much better. Love playing these tunes on my Premier Drums. Pete is amazing song writer.

I have this album and don't remember this song, Scot Halpin brought me here

It's on the CD reissues, mate.

To me this is the best version of this song! I can feel the raw energy from The Who in this! The studio version from Odds and Sods lacks in the energy. This version they take it to the stratosphere!

Greatest guitar tone ever. Don't even try to argue this!!!

Same with the bass...... Beautiful......

And drums

And vocals.

@Greg Winter, Pete Townshend knew how to put those p-90 pickups to use live!

Hard to figure why this song didn't make the final cut for the original release of Who's Next. It is superior to most of the songs on that album. And the ending is epic.

Yeah, this could replace mobile or my wife easy...

A very "Live at Leeds" ending...

dsfddsgh one of my favs ..but cmon......you act like whos next is bad instead of a masterpiece...which is what it is

H.I. McDunnough definetly wouldn’t replace my wife

The way they sort of stop playing around 3:40 0.... just hits home.

raw power

But it don't really happen that way at all.....!!

Can us Brits ever get so fucking GOOD again??

no...but if it makes any difference no one else will either.

Miss those days.

Well, let's see...
I've bought Ambrosia a round of drinks, been on-stage at the Grand Ole Opry, carried Al Stewart's guitar, Performed on stage twice with JMT from Mason Proffit, been insulted by Gary Wright and handed Roger Daltrey a bottle of water during a concert.

- Yeah, I guess I've lived a full life

What did you do - tell Gary Wright you didn't care for Dream Weaver or something?

I'm from Tennessee just saying
Because you mentioned the Opry

Pete Townshend you are an incredible guitarist sir

That guitar playing does tend to raise all the goose pimples up all over the arms and up top the shoulders to the neck area... yep....

I like the studio version best because it is so tender and touching as well as a flat-out rocker.

This is soooooooo good!

Great song.

i loveeee ethos song me name lis daaaaamam isnclaraaaiiir jaaaa

+adam sinclair
Whatever you're on, I'd love some :p

+John Moyerman
Man i dont remember when this happend :p

lol That doesn't surprise me a bit

Most underrated song in Rock

Agreed one of my favorite who songs

for real

Lisa Bergkoetter yes

In Pete's book he talks about writing songs with Roger Daltrey's voice in mind, a major turning point being his efforts to sing songs for Tommy. Assumedly, he could then sing higher notes and softer vocal passages then in the earliest WHO incarnation ... I think it helped The Who in stretching out as they did while a band, and even later with Roger's solo work. Roger himself said he considered it a great honor to sing Pete's words. I think it took some years to have that perspective however

like daltrey played the power guy and pete the senic guy very excellent ! 

I believe the story behind the album's 2001-cover art happened when the band was riding in a car on the outskirts of Sheffield, UK after a gig and some in the group were discussing Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey(John and Keith, IIRC) and all of a suddenly, they saw a monolith similar to the ones seen in the film where the apes gather around and supposedly become smarter, they tell the driver to stop, get out and despite popular belief, urinated on the monolith instead of standing in awe in front of it. A NME photographer snapped most of the photos later seen on the album cover and later CD editions after the band had finished urinating on the fake monolith outside Sheffield. After the band finished recording the album, Townsend felt the photos depicted the eerie, harsh barren post-apocalyptic themes of alienation, disillusionment, and restlessness the album's original title, Lifehouse, meant to convey about a future dystopian society where people live in insulated, Matrix-life Life Suits maintained and controlled by comptrollers in a system called the Grid. Rock music is outlawed and the Lifehouse is an underground sanctuary where those who live outside Grid-range or those trying to escape can meet and listen to whatever music they like, without being monitored, or spied upon.Townsend described the Lifehouse rock opera as being like "Brave New World in rock terms" and his personal answer to revive the late 60's counterculture enthusaism he felt was waning due to confusion, lack of initiative, key causes like the Vietnam War that were coming to close, and deaths of Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, figures perceived by mainstream establishment as youth spokesmen, and the lingering effects of the disastrous free Altamont concert where Hells Angels bikers roughed up and killed an 19-year old black teenager after being harassed by several racist Angels for having a white girlfriend and finally fed up, pulled out a small nickel revolver and aimed it, allegedly in the direction of Mick Jagger onstage during the Stones set. 

+David Roberts - And all we end up with is, The Matrix...

Bummer!

canzone favolosa gruppo stratosferico !!!!!!!!!!!!

The Who had been playing bits of what became Naked Eye since at least the summer of 1969. Listen to the end of their Woodstock set and you'll hear what I mean.

That is one of the best rock performances ever. 2:38 and on.

i think this is the record plant version. great version of a great song.

Killer tune !! an one of there bet Albums ....

GREAT deep track!

Smokin' Hot !!!

haha i love it <3 !

@gumbyonacid hows about i get u naked?

@HinVids yes but not the one i grew up on- the reissue is not T- IT'S WHO'S NEXT 2- NOT THE SAME THING-

@gumbyonacid ok? so that means its still on whos next though doesnt it?

@HinVids not the original- it was on the reissue in 1995

@gumbyonacid yes it was

No it wasn't.

good deep track

was not on who's next

This song is epic: it's like a tsunami...

my uncle taught me how to play this today! i love this song lol

YES YES FUCKING EXCELLANT !!!!!!!