Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Basic Protest Song, artist - Harry Chapin. Album song The Last Protest Singer, in the genre ПопDate of issue: 05.05.2008
Record label: Chapin
Song language: English
Basic Protest Song |
| So you’re 13 and there’s a silent scream out there |
| And you can hear it |
| Just your basic protest song |
| Now you’re 16 and there’s a danger in the air |
| And you can see it |
| Just your basic protest song |
| Turnin' 20 and it’s around you everywhere |
| And you can feel it |
| Just your basic protest song |
| Now your 30 and it’s to late now to care |
| And you can taste it |
| Just your basic protest song |
| Well, I just turned 13 don’t know what I wanna be |
| I don’t have much experience but I’ll tell you what I see |
| When I hear the record sing and baby, baby I love you |
| It seems to me we all got so much lovin left to do |
| And at 16 I don’t know to much but I’ll tell you what I do know |
| If you do not give a damn I’ll tell you where to go |
| There is something truly crazy with our patriotic song |
| We know to wave the flag round the week begins a strong |
| So you’re 13 and there’s a silent scream out there |
| And you can hear it |
| Just your basic protest song |
| Now you’re 16 and there’s a danger in the air |
| And you can see it |
| Just your basic protest song |
| Turnin' 20 and it’s around you everywhere |
| And you can feel it |
| Just your basic protest song |
| Now your 30 and it’s to late now to care |
| And you can taste it |
| Just your basic protest song |
| Oh now that I am 20 got my first full time job |
| My boss, upstanding citizen, finds legal ways to rob |
| They say forget what you believe forget what you have seen |
| But I know I lost the best of me when I forgot my dreams |
| I’m passin' on through 30 got two kids of my own |
| Got a wife, house, a car, and dog but still I am alone |
| And I’m tired of only selling cause it’s myself that I sell |
| I’m glad of always buying cause I can’t buy it ourselves |
| I know none of us is perfect I can see myself to well |
| If we can’t push for paradise we’re settled in for hell |
| So you’re 13 and there’s a silent scream out there |
| And you can hear it |
| Just your basic protest song |
| Now you’re 16 and there’s a danger in the air |
| And you can see it |
| Just your basic protest song |
| Turnin' 20 and it’s around you everywhere |
| And you can feel it |
| Just your basic protest song |
| Now your 30 and it’s to late now to care |
| And you can taste it |
| Just your basic protest song |