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1993 Broadway
The Who's Tommy the Musical - Sally Simpson Lyrics
COUSIN KEVIN:
Outside the house, Mr. Simpson announces
Sally can't go to the meeting.
He goes on cleaning his blue Rolls Royce
And she runs inside-a-weeping.
She gets to her room and cries on a picture,
Always keeps it by her.
She picks up a book of her father's life
And throws it on the fire.
(The videos show stadium crowds and Tommy's face
as a weeping Sally is joined
at her dressing table by her mother.)
SALLY & MR. & MRS. SIMPSON:
She knew from the start,
Deep down in her heart,
That she and Tommy were worlds apart:
But her mother said "Never mind: your part
is to be what you'll be."
SALLY:
Tommy's gonna beat his best tonight;
I just have to see him play.
I feel so bad; I'm sorry Dad.
Gonna sneak out anyway.
I've spent all day doin' up my hair;
I've gotta look exactly right.
Maybe he'll see that I can be free
And I'll get backstage tonight.
(Sally does herself up and rushes off past her parents)
MR. & MRS. SIMPSON:
She knew right then from the start,
Deep down in her heart,
That she and Tommy were worlds apart...
But her mother said "Never mind; your part is to be
What you'll be."
(Sally, hair blowing in the wind,
rides across stage on her motor scooter.)
TWO GUARDS:
She lands at six and the gig is a rocking;
The devil is out tonight.
The band cuts loose and the stage is a knocking
She grabs her chair- she's hot to dance
Right down their in the very first row.
Then a slick DJ who is pissing his pants
Runs on and says:
DJ
Here we go...
(Sally appears in the front row of the audience,
eager to jump up on stage)
GUARDS:
The crowd goes crazy
As Tommy hits the stage!
Little Sally is lost
As the police boss
The crowd back in a rage! Woooo!
(Tommy stands on a high podium doing his act while
his face appears on video screens.
The guards surround him in an unbreakable line.)
SALLY SIMPSON:
A flash of fire - the whole place stops.
Tommy is a tranquilizer,
But Sally's so hot- she risks a shot
And jumps up on the riser.
(Sally rushes past the guards and climbs up onto Tommy's podium,
where she throws her scarf around his neck.)
COUSIN KEVIN:
She's up there now - she's hit the top.
She brushes his handsome face.
Tommy whirls around as a uniformed man
Ushers her from the stage.
(Tommy turns and inadvertently knocks Sally from the stage
and the guards below grab her and beat her viciously)
THE GUARDS:
She knew from the start
Deep down in her heart,
That she and Tommy were worlds apart.
But her mother said "Never mind; your part is to be
What you'll be"
(Tommy leaps off the podium,
pushes through the security guards
and kneels beside her, realizing how completely out
of hand everything's gotten. He rocks her in his lap.)
TOMMY:
Be...
What you'll be,
What you'll be,
What you'll be,
What you'll be,
What you'll be,
(Tommy looks at the guards, and the crowd,
which has gone silent.)
TOMMY (to crowd)
I've had enough. I think I'm gonna go home now.
Suss everything out. I'm going home.
But ...you can all come if you like. Yeah.
You've all got your families, right?
Come and be a part of mine for a bit.
See what it's been like for me.
(The guards look dumbfounded at Tommy's invitation
to the crowd as the pieces
of 22 Heathfield Gardens assemble behind them.)
Album Songs: The Who's Tommy the Musical Songs Lyrics
The Who's Tommy Sally Simpson Lyrics
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