The relationship of the pauses to the rhythms and the meaning is brilliantly right.
Townshend's love songs are a breed by themselves--perpetually afraid of the transiency of love he is, therefore, as the man, aggressively pre-emptive.
I know when I've had enough
When I think your love is rough
Yeah you know the good's gone out of our love.
or
Now if its you I need I've got to pay a levy 'cause
Your love's too heavy on me
Its much much too much too much too heavy.
'Substitute' must surely be the Who's answer to 'Satisfaction', with its literate interesting funny lines set to an instantly catchy tune, remember
I'm a substitute for another guy
I look pretty tall but my heels are high
The simple things you see are all complicated
I look pretty young but I'm just backdated.
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