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1993 Broadway
The Who's Tommy the Musical - Go to the Mirror! Lyrics
SPECIALIST:
He seems to be completely unreceptive.
The tests I give him make no sense at all.
SPECIALIST & SPECIALIST'S ASSISTANT:
His eyes react to light; the dials detect it.
He hears but cannot answer to your call.
(Against a backdrop of atomic images and X-rays,
Tommy is placed in a nightmarish contraption
that spins around 360degrees)
TEN-YEAR OLD TOMMY: (voiceover)
See me, feel me,
Touch me, heal me.
See me, feel me,
Touch me, heal me.
SPECIALIST:
There is no chance; no untried operation.
All hope lies with him; and none with me.
SPECIALIST & SPECIALIST'S ASSISTANT:
Imagine though, the shock from isolation
If he suddenly could hear and speak and see.
(Tommy is moved onto a glowing,
brightly-colored table that slides him into
the tunnel of a similarly brilliant CAT scan machine.
Multiple images of the brillant readings of the machine appear
on the screens behind them.)
TEN-YEAR OLD TOMMY: (voiceover)
See me, feel me,
Touch me, heal me.
See me, feel me,
Touch me, heal me.
SPECIALIST:
His eyes can see,
His ears can hear, his lips can speak.
All the time the needles, flick and rock.
SPECIALIST & SPECIALIST'S ASSISTANT:
No machine can give the kind of stimulation
needed to remove his inner block.
Go to the mirror boy!
Go to the mirror boy!
(The specialist turns Tommy toward the mirror;
he walks to it and stares at his own image.)
MRS WALKER:
I often wonder what he's feeling.
Has he ever heard a word I've said?
MR. & MRS WALKER:
Look at him the mirror, dreaming.
What is happening in his head?
(Tommy sees his 4 year old and 10 year old selves in the mirror)
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The Who's Tommy Go to the Mirror! Lyrics
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