What are the number of instrumental version of Where Have You been in this list ?
The song 's verses list a number of things the song 's narrator could have been , from a driver , poet , teacher or soldier to an inmate in a long - term institution and the ticket man at Fulham Broadway station before the chorus reveals that instead he chose to ' play the fool in a six - piece band ' highlighting some of the pitfalls of this ( loneliness specifically ) , before deciding that ' rock and roll do n't mind ' .