“The Seeker” by The Who

Pete Townshend wrote "The Seeker", and the Who put it out in March 1970 as a single with no album attached; it was later gathered onto the 1971 compilation Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy, and it also appears on the 2006 album Endless Wire.

Townshend told Rolling Stone at the time that it was about what he called Divine Desperation: a man who is hard, cruel and selfish, wrecking homes, turning on his heroes and blaming everyone for his lot, yet with a point to make, going nowhere and sure only that he'll die, and convinced that death will finally hand him what he wants. A year on he'd gone cold on it, saying he liked it least of everything they'd done: it was the first thing they tackled after Tommy, and they'd recorded it a few times too many.

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