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The song wasn’t meant as being a youth-mutiny anthem at the outset. It was a Jimmy Reed-design and style blues, reflecting Townshend’s fears about the approaching strictures of adult daily life, famously captured in the line “Hope I die ahead of I get old.”Orbison said he wrote this lush, dreamy ballad after an face using an previous flame: