Also, Won't Get Fooled Again was originally written to be a part of the Who's scrapped sci-fi rock opera Lifehouse. They realized they should just let Tommy stand alone, so they abandoned Lifehouse and put the song on the album Who's Next.

Also, the song wasn't really even about the real world. It was written to be the closing song of that rock opera, and when you actually look at the lyrics, they kind of inspire apathy as opposed to revolution, a criticism that many have leveled against Townsend over the years.