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Dreaming From The Waist

This version of Dreaming From The Waist was released by The Who in 1975.

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I feel like I want to break out of the house
My heart is a-pumping, I’ve got sand in my mouth
I feel like I’m heading up to a cardiac arrest
I want to scream in the night, I want a manifest

I’ve got that wide awake, give-and-take, five o’clock-in-the-morning feeling
I’ve got the hots for the sluts in the well thumbed pages of a magazine
I want to drive, want to fly like I do in the dreams I’ve never really been in
I want to hump, want to jump, want to heat up, cool down in a dream machine

I’m dreaming … from the waist on down
I’m dreaming … but I feel tired and bound
I’m dreaming … of a day when a cold shower helps my health
I’m dreaming … dreaming – of the day I can control myself
Day I can control myself

Sound like a priest and then I’m shooting dice
I’m burning tires with some guy whose hair is turning white
I know the girls that I pass, they just ain’t impressed
I’m too old to give up, but too young to rest

I’ve got that numb-to-a-thumb over-dubbed
Feeling social when the world is sleeping
The plot starts to thicken then I sicken and I feel I’m cemented down
I’m so juiced that the whorey lady’s sad sad story has me quietly weeping
But here comes the morning
Here comes the yawning demented clown

I’m dreaming … but I know it’s all hot air
I’m dreaming … I’ll get back to that rocking chair
I’m dreaming … of the day I can share the wealth
I’m dreaming … dreaming – of the day I can control myself
Day I can control myself
Hey, hey!
The day I can control myself

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Dreaming From The Waist, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by The Who. Some of the lyrics to Dreaming From The Waist have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Who and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Dreaming From The Waist if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Dreaming From The Waist" means the words set to the music of Dreaming From The Waist, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Who. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Dreaming From The Waist and the lyrics to Dreaming From The Waist are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Who who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dreaming From The Waist, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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