Tea and Theatre

Anybody that knows me well knows that I’ve been a fan of The Who since . . . well, since I’ve been a fan of music. One of the most significant memories of my college time was seeing The Who at the Murphy Center in Murfressboro TN during my freshman year with my best friend Tom Byrd.

Many years later Tom came to Dallas to see them with me again in the summer of 2000. I saw them  in 2002 just a few shows after John Entwistle died and then Lisa finally saw them last year with me for the first time.

This time around, at the end of the show, after all the encores, Pete and Roger come out on stage and end the night with a quiet acoustic number. Pete plays - Roger sings  . . . and then we all go home.

Here’s the lyrics to the song, Tea and Theatre. It’s touching to see just the two of them alone on the stage. These two men, who wrote, who fought, who shared their talent - offering this coda to the evening, to their work, to their past and to each other . . .

Will you have some tea
At the theatre with me?
We did it all
Didn't we?

Jumped every wall
Instinctively
Unravelled codes
Ingeniously

Wired all the roads
So seamlessly
We made it work
But one of us failed
That makes it so sad
A great dream derailed

One of us - gone
One of us - mad
One of us - me
All of us sad
All of us sad

Lean on my shoulder now
This story is done
It's getting colder now
A thousand songs

Still smoulder now
We play them as one
We're older now
All of us sad
All of us free
Before we walk from this stage
Two of us

Will you have some tea
Will you have some tea
At the theatre with me