Old Red Wine

Album: Then And Now (2004)
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  • Old red wine, well past its prime,
    May have to finish it, after crossing the line.
    Dusty old wine, two thousand a time,
    An inch of black mud always left behind.
    They say you turned in while the sun still shined,
    That gorgeous girl with you was highly primed.
    She said she'd take you way down or way up,
    She might break your heart, she might crack you up.
    Old red wine, not worth a dime,
    Gonna have to drink it with you some other time.
    Expensive old wine, forty years lying,
    Mice chewed the labels, don't know what we're buying.
    Back home in California, they got wine for the meek,
    There's a Bowl and a Fillmore, the Cow and the Greek.
    You sniffed at the cork, chose low on the list,
    As you dashed to the lights and gazed through the mist.
    Old red wine, well past its prime,
    Gonna have to drink it with you some other time.
    Just let it breathe,
    Oh, let it breathe,
    Breathe life, breathe life.
    Let it breathe,
    Oh, let it breathe,
    Let it breathe. Writer/s: PETER DENNIS BLANDFOR TOWNSHEND
    Publisher: Spirit Music Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Johnny from Los Angeles, CaWow! I didn't know this was a tribute! And I've had it on The Who: Then And Now 1964-2004 for a while. So nice of them to sing this to John.
  • Laura from Spencerport, NyIt's a very nice tribute. If yal are big Who fans, you might want to get the dvd of The Who live at the Royal Albert Hall from 2000 where Pete adds on some new lyrics at the end of this song (John was still alive here, obviously), and then, after John passed away, he changed those lyrics on the dvd of The Who live in Boston from 2002. What a change in the lyrics, too. It gets to me every time I watch those two songs from the different concerts. Check into it.
  • Vincent from St. Davids, EnglandThis song is beautiful. It's the best thing Pete & Roger could have done for their old mate John Entwistle.
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