Helpless Dancer
The Who * Track #8 On Quadrophenia
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Album Quadrophenia
- #1
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- #3Quadrophenia
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- #4Cut My Hair
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- #5The Punk and the Godfather
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- #6I’m One
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- #7The Dirty Jobs
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- #8Helpless Dancer
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- #9Is It In My Head?
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- #10I’ve Had Enough
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- #115:15
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- #12Sea and Sand
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- #13Drowned
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- #14Bell Boy
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- #15Doctor Jimmy
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- #16The Rock
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- #17Love Reign O’er Me
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- #18Quadrophenia - Introduction- The Story
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Helpless Dancer by The Who
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Pete TownshendAbout
This song is one of the four songs that represent the “four personalities” of Jimmy, the album’s main figure, with the others being “Is It Me?”, “Bell Boy”, and “Love Reign O'er Me”. The album’s title refers to the character’s four-way split personality, that is, “Quadrophenia”, a play on schizophre...
Helpless Dancer Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
When a man is running from his boss
Who hold a gun that fires cost
And people die from being old
Or left alone because they're cold
And bombs are dropped on fighting cats
And children's dreams are run with rats
If you complain you disappear
Just like the lesbians and queers
[Verse 2]
No-one can love without the grace
Of some unseen and distant face
And you get beaten up by Blacks
Who though they worked, still got the sack
And when your soul tells you to hide
Your very right to die's denied
And in the battle on the streets
You fight computers and receipts
And when a man is trying to change
It only causes further pain
You realize that all along
Something in us going wrong
[Outro 1]
You stop dancing
[Outro 2]
(Is it me, for a moment?)
Helpless Dancer Q&A
Who wrote Helpless Dancer's ?
Helpless Dancer was written by Pete Townshend.
Who produced Helpless Dancer's ?
Helpless Dancer was produced by The Who & Kit Lambert.
When did The Who release Helpless Dancer?
The Who released Helpless Dancer on Fri Oct 26 1973.